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...Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, Bloomsbury £18.99/Harper $30, 320 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul by Ann Wroe (Jonathan Cape) Just as scientists wrestle with what defines the essence of life, Wroe — obituaries editor of The Economist — contends with the...
...She has since appeared in Grazia and Harper’s Bazaar Russia, and made history in 2016 when, at 56, she became the oldest woman to appear as a swimsuit model in Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue,...
...He married his lover Ann Charteris, ex-wife of the Daily Mail proprietor, Esmond Rothermere....
...Ann Barr and I had first documented the Sloanes’ secret world a few years earlier in Harpers & Queen magazine, and we knew then that Diana’s style was pure Sloane — and there was lots more where that came...
...Currently an editor at The New York Times and former editor at large of Harper’s, Cox notes that while deadlines can encourage productivity, they also leave people delaying work right up to the last second...
...[BIRDS SQUAWKING] MARTIN HARPER: I think the extraordinary thing that this pandemic has shown is what [INAUDIBLE] again, we're all in it together....
...Earning It: Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World, Joann Lublin; Harper Business; $27.99/£18.99...
...Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett, Bloomsbury, RRP£18.99/ Harper, RRP$26.99, 336 pages Erica Wagner is editor of ‘First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner’ (Unbound) Photograph: Getty Images...
...Tim’s sister, Nan, is staying, too — away from La Prairie she’s known as Ann Garton Temple, and is one of America’s most famous and beloved poets; she’s brought along her friend Lucy Pendleton, a painter...
...The book, which sold more than 1m copies, was a compilation of articles by contributors at Harpers & Queen, the monthly for which Barr was a brilliant and original features editor....
...Ann, David’s first wife, called Ronnie “the only really evil person I ever met”....
...Other Words, by Jhumpa Lahiri, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99 / Knopf, RRP$26.95 A memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author about her experience learning Italian, written in that language and translated by Ann...
...Executive Presence: The missing link between merit and success by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Harper Business, $26.99/ £17.99...
...in the capacity for joy” is the way Primo Levi characterises Rabelais — an unlikely choice of literary hero for Levi until one realises, from the magnificently compendious The Complete Works edited by Ann...
...Willy Vlautin’s latest novel ‘The Free’ is published by Faber in the UK and Harper Perennial in the US....
...And while many favourite characters (Mary Ann Singleton, for example) make only fleeting appearances, fans of Barbary Lane’s landlady Anna Madrigal will not be disappointed....
...Julie Ann Morrison, Bulgari’s managing director, says her clients find that certain imperfections in emeralds add to their allure, and she is not alone....
...Indeed in November’s Harper’s Bazaar, designer Vera Wang, says, “I never carry a handbag – just my BlackBerry and eyewear.”...
...Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon are also recognised as classic collectors’ items....
...He added that he called Stephen Harper, Canada’s prime minister, to “personally convey” the decision and “reaffirm the close alliance” between the countries, according to the White House....
...Mr Harper said: “No one’s happy with their bonuses but it isn’t a huge shock”....
...Meanwhile, if you look at upcoming trends as identified by Style.com, autumn/winter seems to be melting into spring/summer as layering is due to proliferate in April courtesy of such brands as Marni and Ann...
...Further entangled in the action are a gay black nurse (a fabulous performance from Obi Abili), Joe’s Mormon mother (Ann Mitchell, also very good) and the corrupt right-wing lawyer Roy Cohn (Greg Hicks, lithe...
...the Sloane Ranger publishing phenomenon, it is necessary to go back to the very beginning, to the mid-70s when the style journalist Peter York “discovered” or “identified” the species in an article in Harpers...
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