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Ellen Turner, The Conversation

‘The Sheik’: 100 years on, the desert romance is a gift that keeps on giving to genre novelists

Panned as rubbish when it was published in 1919, ‘The Sheik’ spawned a legendary movie and hundreds of desert romances, despite its questionable central theme.

Ellen Turner, The Conversation
· Feb 25, 2019 · 05:30 pm
Why Frank Underwood from ‘House of Cards’ simply cannot be a vegetarian

Carnivorous tastes mark the fictional US President as a man determined to be at the top of the food chain.

Birgitta Berglund, The Conversation
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Ellen Turner, The Conversation
· May 26, 2017 · 01:30 pm