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Minogue, Noonie

Noonie Minogue is a Londoner who writes, etches, teaches Latin and translates Greek songs. She will never now look less than attentively at any slip of paper left behind in a book.

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20250301100003 Noonie Minogue on Axel Munthe, SF Issue 85

Laying It on with a Trowel

Noonie Minogue on Axel Munthe, The Story of San Michele

In the early 1920s Axel Munthe, the renowned physician born in Sweden in 1857, was going blind. Shrinking from the glare of the sun he retired to a dark tower and taught himself to use a typewriter. Henry James had suggested he write a memoir – it might cheer him up. Munthe was surprised when The Story of San Michele (1929) became an international bestseller and rightly predicted that in a hundred years’ time nobody would have heard of it. This neglected but altogether thrilling life story was a gift from an Argentine friend of mine, her favourite book, she said. ‘When people ask “Who is Axel Munthe?” I reply with a slight air of reproach, “Well, they’ve heard of him in Buenos Aires . . .”’
20231201093058 Noonie Minoge on Ford Madox Ford, Slightly Foxed 80

Heart Trouble

Noonie Minogue on Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier

It’s nearly thirty years since a friend lent me Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier (1915) and he’ll never get it back. I’ve read it five times since then – I like to revisit books. Of course what Heraclitus said of rivers is true of books as well. We can never step into the same book twice, and no book is more shifty and fluid, reflecting back who you are when you read it, than The Good Soldier .

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