Hints and tips:
...Tracy-Ann Oberman’s actress Belinda smiles beatifically at the audience as she ploughs doggedly on, delivering whole sections of dialogue to herself because her onstage partner has failed to materialise....
...As the literary scholar Mary Ann Lund tells us in A User’s Guide to Melancholy, the Anatomy is “perhaps the largest, strangest, and most unwieldy self-help book ever written”....
...Fearful of tinkering too much with the text, she passed the translation into English of In Other Words to Ann Goldstein, the brilliant translator of authors including Elena Ferrante and Primo Levi....
...Philosopher Ollivier Pourriol brings more Francophilia in The French Art of Not Trying Too Hard (Profile RRP£12.99, June), while Deirdre Bair reflects on the lives of Beauvoir and Beckett in Parisian Lives...
...Toby Faber includes a letter from Ann Faber, Geoffrey’s daughter, to Ted Hughes, but notes Ann “never made a name as an editor in her own right”....
...And, you know, and in a sense, there's been talk of Margaret Beckett or Harriet Harman....
...Whereas The Walworth Farce injected dollops of madcap energy into a device borrowed from Sartre’s No Exit and Beckett’s Endgame, the shtick was already wearing a bit thin in the meandering and overheated...
...Fittingly, there was a 1980s feel to some of the autumn catalogues: Andy Beckett’s Promised You a Miracle took us back to the first three years of that decade, showing how the new individualist zeitgeist...
...Marks out of 10 are for the speech – not the chances of success: (2.30pm) Margaret Beckett: 5/10 Thin gruel from the Labour former minister and bookies’ favourite....
...The two main candidates for the Stop Bercow ticket appear to be Margaret Beckett and Ann Widdecombe....
...This renders irrelevant the suggestion by several candidates on Monday, including Margaret Beckett, that they would implement this change themselves....
...Ann Widdecombe picked up a respectable 44 votes while Sir Alan Haselhurst got 66 and Alan Beith 55....
...TWENTY PRIME MINISTERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY series edited by Francis Beckett Haus ₤175, 3,520 pages Beckett, a writer and son of fascist leader John Beckett, recruited leading academics (David Howell on...
...Ireland BECKETT REMEMBERING: Remembering Beckettedited by James and Elizabeth KnowlsonBloomsbury ₤20 To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Beckett - the hugely influential and notoriously...
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