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...There’s prime Nordic noir from Agnes Ravatn, whose The Guests (Orenda £9.99, translated by Rosie Hedger) boasts a satisfying vein of psychological intensity....
...electronic and experimental records for sale, curated by the brand’s artistic director Nicolas Di Felice, there will be an abundance of books (including a reissue of Julia von Dorpp’s Ex-Tracts, cataloguing English...
...Agnes Broomé has done a primarily excellent job with the translation, apart from some unfortunate renderings into English such as the use of the pejorative word “spastic” to describe a character’s physical...
...Part of her charm came from the English accent she never lost. Her wide-eyed look, straight locks and fringe, and tomboyish style were much admired and copied....
...His parents didn’t speak much English. He turned to films and literature, but it all quickly started feeling one-dimensional, only from the point of view of the powerful....
...Plucked from the farmyards and fields of western France, Grimault was awarded a place at a genteel English finishing school, but here it was discovered that the novel was a fake: Grimault couldn’t even read...
...This Oxonian characteristic is one we continental Europeans tend to wrongly think as a general, ever baffling English trait....
...One scenario the doctors often warned him about was that his French and English might erode over time until only Arabic remained, a possibility he and Isabelle, who does not speak Arabic, tried not to dwell...
...It was bought in New York in the 1920s and bequeathed to the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC by Eugene and Agnes E Meyer in 1958. ‘Femme nue (Leda?)’...
...The 33 black-and-white images include a teenage self-portrait, photographs of his wife, Agnes, and several recurring motifs – “hands and eyes, animals, vegetables”....
...“ACAB,” they chanted, the English abbreviation for “All Cops Are Bastards”. “A-ca-buh”, it came out in French....
...It’s the reason why, in 2015, he moved his Berlin flagship to St Agnes, a near-windowless deconsecrated church in the city’s Kreuzberg district....
...In Cornwall, that figure was 13 per cent — in popular Padstow and St Agnes, it was more than 40 per cent....
...Singapore has English, and is used to bringing in expatriates. And its Asia-lite in the sense that it's very comfortable for people to be there....
...In the popular towns of Penzance and St Agnes, homes are selling in an average of five and three days respectively, according to Hamptons....
...The next day the wind was still coming from the north, so we drove to the Lizard peninsula, joined by a couple of Tom’s friends from St Agnes, one of whom was practising to swim the English Channel....
...Back home Montagu popularised smallpox inoculation among the English upper classes....
...In other changes, the UK’s premier fiction prize for works written in English has been forced to forgo its traditional black-tie award ceremony at London’s Guildhall....
...With Agnes, the name of the mother in the book, Stuart says that he wanted to show the many parts of her character — mother, lover, daughter, friend, foe — and not just the addict she became....
...It’s only in French for now, but I believe they are working on an English version. They interview more or less well-known men about their relationship to clothes....
...A silvery sheen fills the rich blacks with a springing lightness in Agnes Miller Parker’s “The Challenge” (1934), a fierce, funny spiral of a cat....
...The site is an important fixture for tour guide Agnes Antal, who specialises in the city’s Jewish heritage....
...Translated into more than 40 languages, it has sold 8m copies in English alone. In 2017 it was listed as the most-read fiction book on Kindle and Audible....
...The Testaments , by Margaret Atwood, Chatto & Windus, RRP£20/Nan A Talese, RRP$28.95 The sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale is narrated by three women with contrasting experiences of Gilead: Agnes, a commander...
...On Thursday, Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, said in a tweet that in expelling Mr Assange from its embassy and allowing his arrest, Ecuador had taken him “one step...
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