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...and letters from fellow artists is all “boxed, sorted and documented”....
...And lots of Japanese condiments – soy, ponzu and mirin. I have a collection of succulents – I’ve owned as many as 80 at one time....
...She was 27 years old. Her jailer, George Talbot, the sixth Earl of Shrewsbury, was by her side, along with his guards....
...Over cocktails at a Lviv café in November, Igor told me that among the things that he didn’t have time to pack were a coin collection and family photo albums....
...It was good advice; Cartier received orders for 27 tiaras for his Coronation and, ever since, the Royal Family has had a habit of giving Cartier trinkets as presents....
...Reading Malcolm on Bate’s book — in which, she writes, “specimens of tastelessness lodged [ . . . ] like the threepenny coins in a Christmas pudding” — in The New York Review of Books when it was published...
...She wore the delicate piece, which is about the size of a 10 pence coin, on a chain round her neck for the launch of her first book, 2013’s Weasels....
...Her first book, Fen, a collection of short stories, was set in the waterlogged, liminal landscape of rural East Anglia, a world in which a girl can, and unremarkably does, one day turn into an eel....
...I basked on a lounger with a book, freed from the longest, greyest winter I can remember at home, and dozed....
...Viviana Zelizer, Princeton University Press, RRP£37.95/$45, 288 pages Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff, edited by Bill Maurer and Lana Swartz, MIT Press, RRP£22.95/$27.95, 320 pages...
...It’s been in business for 130 years, and the tatami rooms here are very popular, so you need to book in advance....
...The club’s analysis department is led by Ian Graham, who previously worked at data collection firm Decision Technology, and Michael Edwards, a former performance analyst at Tottenham Hotspur and Portsmouth...
...In its second quarter to August 27, Argos achieved total sales growth of 3 per cent and like-for-like sales growth of 2.3 per cent....
...A year later it was picked up by the Italian furniture brand Capellini, and soon entered the permanent collections of London’s V&A and New York’s Museum of Modern Art....
...The vast collection holds his power and, he discovers, power over others too....
...Which business leader revealed this year that his favourite business book was a collection of articles by the New Yorker writer John Brooks lent to him by Warren Buffett?...
..., boxed and film tie-in....
...The Circle: A Novel, by Dave Eggers, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99/Knopf, RRP$27.95, 504 pages Dave Eggers’ latest book is set in the near future – very near, like tomorrow....
...almost double the total pension savings you can take as a lump sum to £30,000 All of these changes will come into effect on 27 March 27....
...The Vatican said that the book of Genesis had inspired the works....
...of axe handles, a peanut butter jar of assorted screws, hand-knit mittens, sweaters and caps, a braided throw rug, a year’s supply of Wrigley’s gum.”...
...Last week I walked through Bunhill Fields, and, sure enough, there were the paving stones and the cracks, Blake’s memorial stone (his actual grave is somewhere nearby) with a few coins and stones and dying...
...Adapting a saying by Francis Bacon, Seung coins the dictum: “Worthwhile things that have never yet been done can only be done by means that have never yet existed.”...
...A beautiful collection....
...“Antinous: The Face of the Antique”, is at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (0113 234 3158) until August 27. Nigel Spivey is the author of “How Art Made the World (BBC Books)....
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