In Depth

Manolo Blahnik reading list

by The Week team

1 Aug 2018

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"I adore it, I can't wait to just get my hands on it", says Blahnik." I don't know whether you have ever heard of Umberto Pastri, one of the best garden designers in the world".

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"I love him! I have not read it for a long time". Published in 2013, The Broken Road follows A Time of Gifts (1977) and Between the Woods and the Water (1986), in a trilogy chronicling Fermor's adventurous 1930s journey from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople.

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"I think I have lost it, or somebody took it", Mr. Blahnik says of Gore Vidal's 1970 published Two Sisters, which sits between novel and memoir. " I ordered it on Amazon last week, so I am preparing myself! I have a bunch of books that I really adore. I have read it but you know something - I am so weak in my mind that I forgot things. I want to read it again. Gore, Mr. Vidal that is, is fantastic".