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15th May 2021 VALENCIA BOOKS… EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW… Award-winning novelist ‘RAFA LAHUERTA YUFERA’
24/7 VALENCIA: 1.Tell us about your days working as a baker for your family. What was a typical day like? RAFA LAHUERTA YUFERA: I was brought up in a bakery. So, from an early age I helped with the baking. I did a little bit of everything, although not very well… it has to be […]
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14th May 2021 VALENCIA FOOTBALL AND VALENCIA BOOKS… ‘LIBRE’ THE BIOGRAPHY OF RICARDO ARIAS
##Born in 1957 in Catarroja (Valencia), Ricardo Arias played 521 matches for Valencia CF, from 1976 to 1992. On 14th May of 1980, he scored the deciding penalty for Valencia CF v Arsenal…that won the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup for the Spanish side. 24/7 VALENCIA: Could you tell us more about the biography of Ricardo […]
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11th May 2021 VALENCIA BOOKS… ‘LA COCINA DEL CABANYAL’
##24/7 VALENCIA: Could you tell us more about the book? LA COCINA DEL CABANYAL: In the film ‘Million Dollar Baby’, Morgan Freeman says that “It seems that there are Irish people everywhere, or that they would like to be…” to explain the sympathies that the boxer Maggie Fitzgerald aroused. Sometimes, it almost seems like there […]
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5th May 2021 CHEF & AUTHOR PEDRO PONCE PALOMARES: ‘THE BOOK OF RICES’ (123 RECIPES)
##EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Based in Valencia, Pedro Ponce Palomares is a professional chef and renowned author regarding Spanish cuisine. Visitors travel from all over the world to enjoy paella in the city of Valencia and the surrounding region. His book ‘El Libro de los Arroces, El Arroz en mi Memoria’ are rice recipes that Palomares has […]
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1st May 2021 BOOKS IN VALENCIA… ‘RE-READ LIBRERIA LOW COST’ (EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW)
“It’s like selling culture”: Interview with Lorena Sanchis from Re-Read Librería Lowcost Working in a bookshop is about more than sales; it’s about talking to people and selling culture, says Lorena Sanchis. She has been working full-time at second-hand bookstore, Re-Read Librería Lowcost, for two years, but has helped out since the beginning when her […]
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23rd April 2021 VALENCIA FOOTBALL & BOOKS…. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MARIO KEMPES ‘EL MATADOR’
##24/7 Valencia:What are your memories of the 1978 World Cup? Mario Kempes: I genuinely believe that winning a World Cup is the greatest possible achievement for a football player. On top of that, I had the great fortune to win it in my own country of Argentina…which is the most emotional feeling of all. It […]
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4th April 2021 VALENCIA BOOKS…JASON WEBSTER
##24/7 VALENCIA:What is your view of the political stalemate in Spain in recent years? JASON WEBSTER: This feels like a transitionary phase in many ways. My hope was that the elections would usher in a new generation of politicians and help sweep away the old guard – of both persuasions. That only happened partially, and […]
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15th March 2021 VALENCIA BOOKS & PHOTOGRAPHY ‘HOUSES FROM EL CABANYAL’
##(EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH WRITER & CABANYAL RESIDENT FELIP BENS) What is the concept and philosophy of ‘HOUSES from El Cabanyal’? The first edition of the book came out in 2007, in the middle of the harassment of the city council of Valencia, with Rita Barberà at the head… to promote the extension of the Blasco […]
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11th March 2021 WILLIAM SHAKESBEER (BASED IN VALENCIA)
24/7 VALENCIA: Could you tell us more about William Shakesbeer? WILLIAM SHAKESBEER: “William Shakesbeer is an online, secondhand, English bookstore, based in Valencia. It’s run by myself, Nic (Nicola) and my husband, Nick. I’m Irish/British and Nick is British. We wanted to make secondhand English books for adults and children available and affordable in Valencia. […]
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5th February 2021 BOOKS: ‘THE HIPPIE TRAIL: A HISTORY’ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH SHARIF GEMIE
## 24/7 VALENCIA: 1. What was the inspiration for your book, ‘The Hippie Trail: A history’? SHARIF GEMIE:Two things inspired me. One was a conversation with an Afghan friend; probably back in the early 1990s. He’s almost the same age as me, and he just threw in the comment: “And then there were the hippies—they […]
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6th January 2021 “124 RECIPES OF SPANISH MEDIEVAL CUISINE”…. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH PEDRO PONCE PALOMARES
##If you’re looking for new recipes, Pedro Ponce encourages you to think ‘old’ – way old, as in medieval. You may not have all the ingredients on hand, and you surely won’t know all the cooking processes by heart. However, Pedro provides plenty of pointers and ‘new-to-us’ culinary treasures in his latest cookbook, “124 Recipes […]
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4th January 2021 VALENCIA SHOPPING …’SEBASTIAN MELMOTH’
##After being freed from Reading Prison, Oscar Wilde spent some time in private seclusion, and the Irish writer was forced to change his name. For this period of life, he chose the name Sebastian Melmoth in honour of Saint Sebastian and in reference to the arrows that adorned the saint’s body that reminded him of […]
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21st December 2020 VALENCIA BOOKS… ‘NORUEGA’
##This award-winning novel encapsulates the heartbreaking fictional memoirs of a character called Albert Sanchis Bermell. His is a singular journey, a trip to “the underbelly of a Valencia that has maybe disappeared but not quite: a city of the Rio Turia with its now dry shores nestled by what remains of the Islamic wall”. It […]
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17th December 2020 VALENCIA BOOKS (FOOTBALL) / ‘HISTORIAS DEL LEVANTE UD…’
##«HISTORIAS DEL LEVANTE UD. 110 años de resistencia (1909-2019)» Felip Bens • José Luis García Nieves Marking the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the foundation of Levante UD, García Nieves and Bens, with the encyclopedic ‘Historias del Levante UD’, have written an impressive selection of the 40 most emotional episodes and characters in the […]
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13th November 2020 VALENCIA BOOKS…LAMAR HERRIN
24/7 VALENCIA:Could you tell us something about your background and experiences? LAMAR HERRIN: I first wanted to be a professional baseball player, then an actor. But I was never much of an actor. While working on a film called ‘Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea’ for eight weeks (I was the sonar operator in […]
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