Further to your travel feature on the Greek island of Leros (9 June), may I recommend to your readers Four’s Destiny: A Wartime Greek Tragedy by Michael Powell, a fictionalised account centring on Leros. Powell weaves a clever, powerful story around some fascinating wartime history. We follow four young men, one each from England, Germany, Italy and Greece, as the second world war changes their lives and destinies.
Ruth Samuels
Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire
• Re the proposed Swansea Bay tidal power lagoon (Letters, 11 June), the tidal-powered grain mill on the River Lea at Bromley-by-Bow in London was economic from the 1700s to the 1930s – and without the super-efficient bearings common in today’s machinery. Such small-scale hydro-powered generators (tidal and river) should be all over the country – they’d provide work and be far less expensive than nuclear. But some city slickers won’t be so able to extract their rent from localised generation so it won’t be approved by UK’s present government.
Robin Le Mare
Allithwaite, Cumbria
• Unlike Pat Ellacott (Letters, 11 June), I find Feast a most helpful and attractive magazine. To have Thomasina, Yotam and Felicity all together is inspiring for an avid cook like me. A bonus is a retreat from an obsession with east London pop-up cooks, and a refreshing focus on the world as a whole. Matt or glossy – it doesn’t matter. Good recipes do.
Janet Mansfield
Aspatria, Cumbria
• In addition to VW Beetle owners waving to one another (Letters, 12 June), do you remember when the AA man on his motorbike and sidecar would salute if he noticed you had a metal AA badge on the front of your car?
Chris Jones
Bewdley, Worcestershire
• As your style guide makes clear, unless Kim Jong-un and President Trump were passing notes, they would have been using interpreters, not translators (Report, 12 June).
Alun Pugh
Gellifor, Vale of Clwyd
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