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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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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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4th June 2020 VALENCIA BOOKS…’BLOOD MED’ BY JASON WEBSTER
##24/7 VALENCIA: Could you tell us in detail about your detective book set in Valencia, ‘Blood Med’? JASON WEBSTER:It is the fourth in the Chief Inspector Max Cámara series, and it takes a hard look at the economic crisis in Spain and the powerful effect it is having on society. Hospitals are understaffed and running […]
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16th April 2020 VALENCIA BOOKS DOLORES GARCÍA (EXCLUSIVE ‘24/7 VALENCIA’ INTERVIEW)
24/7 Valencia:Tell us something about your background and education. Dolores García: I was born in the 1960s in Melilla, a Spanish city in North Africa. It is a small, cosmopolitan city that is located off the coast of Malaga and Granada. It has been Spanish for more than 500 years, at the request of the […]
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28th February 2020 VALENCIA BOOKS…ALAN THOMPSON (writing as JEREMY DEAN)
24/7 Valencia: Can you tell us what your book is about? Alan Thompson: Cucarachas or Cucuruchos: An English Teacher’s Spanish Dilemma is my second book describing the experiences of a (fictional) British teacher working in the Valencian community. It’s a humorous ‘year-in-the-life’ story of Jeremy’s mishaps, all very loosely (or sometimes, not so loosely) based […]
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31st July 2016 Author Jason Webster (Exclusive interview)
What is your view of the political stalemate in Spain? By the time this interview is published the situation may well have changed significantly, so it’s not easy to say. At the time of writing (late January), the possibility of forming a lasting coalition government looks unlikely, although I suspect that something temporary may be […]
