Hints and tips:
...The colophon of Weidenfeld & Nicolson has over 75 years conspicuously fronted works written by (or at least ghosted for) the great, the good and — occasionally — the notorious: Vladimir Nabokov to Albert...
...After so many previous outings, however, this first-person persona puts you in mind not so much of Albert Camus as Alan Partridge....
...There’s nothing apocryphal, though, about his dependence on the timetable of the mail boats that ferried manuscripts and proofs from St Peter Port in Guernsey via Southampton or Weymouth to his publisher, Albert...
...Three varieties were selected for inclusion; Rheum “Raspberry Red”, “Royal Albert” and the wonderfully named (and delicious tasting) “Brandycask Scarlet”....
...Jonathan, nicknamed “the Butcher”, enjoys a prodigious “mnemonic capacity” that recalls his civil-servant grandfather Sir Albert (whom we met in Umbrella), of the “enormous Mycroftian mind”....
...Douglas Boyd, artistic director, says nothing else matters unless audiences know that the festival is committed to excellence. “This is a site of extraordinary beauty for a day out....
...Boyd Tonkin, the author and critic who chaired the five-strong panel, said the judges’ choice had been unanimous....
...The plot, a sort of St Trinian’s-meets-Albert Herring, exudes sexual innuendo – what Offenbach operetta doesn’t? – but there are too many characters and too few memorable numbers....
...The show does have one attractive feature – Jonathan Boyd’s Werther. He is musical, sings in excellent French and looks more than presentable....
...… Danah Boyd Author of ‘It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens’ (Yale) Alice Goffman’s On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (University of Chicago Press) brilliantly deciphers...
...Michael Boyd, artistic director, Royal Shakespeare Company. Kenneth Branagh, actor. Malcolm Bruce, MP. Clive Callman, judge. Tony Cunningham, MP. Charles Dunstone, chairman, Carphone Warehouse....
...Boyd was present at the sale, saying afterwards he was “delighted and overwhelmed”....
...Then there is Prince Albert, another Little Karoo town, which is reached by driving over one of the most spectacular mountain passes in the world....
...s Undisclosed (BBC1) are advertised as “blurring the line between the political and the personal”, an approach that is often unhappy; besides This is England ’86, Channel 4 has an adaptation of William Boyd...
...The studio is made up of Tomas Rosen and Nicol Boyd, a duo who met while studying at London’s Royal College of Art....
...These issues sprang to mind during Ravi Shankar’s moving appearance at the Royal Albert Hall a few days later....
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