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...The best books I’ve read in the past year are The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, which immerses you into a culture and a family dynamic – it’s such a good page-turner....
...Pilita Clark FT columnist Siri Hustvedt’s highbrow page-turner, What I Loved, might not seem the most obvious reading choice....
...In one contrarian aside, the narrator prefers the “often enthralling” stories of Arthur Conan Doyle over Marcel Proust or Thomas Mann because Sherlock Holmes’s creator is “an exceptional page turner”....
...Ted Turner Ted Turner was a disrupter long before the term became a buzzword for entrepreneurs, writes Ravi Mattu....
...one character says to another in Mike Leigh’s film Mr Turner. On the other hand, it was probably preferable to Turner telling him to “chill”....
...Doyle duly employs dead-on literary ventriloquism to illuminate the person behind his fellow Irishman’s unforgiving public persona....
...As a boy, he’d read Wallace, Buchan, Conan Doyle, and he shared their breeziness. For example, he didn’t like to do second drafts because he was bad at typing, and found it hard work....
...In Conan Doyle’s stories, Holmes’s arrogance was actually a proper pride in his art, his only salve to despair....
...Eleanor Laing, Andrew Turner, Christopher Chope, Simon Hart and Nick Boles. Stephen Williams....
...A bleak, brutal and relentlessly funny page-turner....
...Turner (R-OH) 123. Upton (R-MI) 124. Visclosky (D-IN) 125. Walz (D-MN) 126. Welch (D-VT) 127. Westmoreland (R-GA) 128. C. Wilson (D-OH) 129. J. Wilson (R-SC) 130. Woolsey (D-CA)...
...Thanks to Joseph Turner and Arthur Conan Doyle, we think of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Western Railway as a lost idyll, but its contemporary nickname (Great Way Round) tells another story – as do those...
...Drood is what we call a “page turner”. But it is more than that....
...Irish-American Bernard Doyle was once mayor of Boston....
...Doyle’s book expertly balances these two contrasting voyages of discovery to show the different forms that courage can take....
...One of his latest trips was an abortive attempt to fly by powered hang-glider to the top of the plateaus in Venezuela that were the inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World....
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