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...Given that her favourite play was Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, this wasn’t entirely surprising....
...Also well worth your time, although very different, is My Brother the Messiah (Barbican Press, £9.99) by Czech author Martin Vopenka (and translated by Anna Gustova Bryson)....
...“It’s a pinch point,” said Mr Bryson....
...In Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson described the men who turn up at parties and discuss at length the routes they took to get there – the bottlenecks, the cut-throughs, all interspersed with a gazetteer...
...He has written travel books that have been compared to Bill Bryson’s. Mr Radcliffe has moved into radio production with Count Arthur Strong’s Radio Show, a Radio Four comedy....
...They remind nervous punters of Arthur Scargill. Instead, pop on pastel polo shirts, brew some fresh coffee and organise a speed networking event....
...In the end, only one of the chief executive’s picks made the final cut: Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition....
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