ballet – The Armchair Anglophile

Ballet Comes to Britain

EditorBeeMarch 2, 2012

Bring on the tutus! On March 2, 1717, England finally got on the ballet bandwagon with a performance of The Loves of Mars and Venus. England was a little late...

A modern-day retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion, set in the sizzling, cutthroat world of the Edinburgh restaurant scene.

Susan and Chris had an intense relationship, and an equally intense breakup. Now, ten years later, the two of them find themselves in charge of competing restaurants and fighting the attraction they both feel. Will it be a second chance at love, or will a movie star, a poisonous gossip blogger, and meddling family members ruin things once and for all?

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