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...Sally Rooney and Anne Enright are fans, which tells you something....
...“Imagine if someone had told France ‘Let’s not humiliate the Kaiser’ in the middle of the battle of Verdun,” Duclos says....
...(The overall level of drinking was “very concerning”, according to Anne Fernandez, a psychologist at the university.)...
...In October, Jayne-Anne Gadhia, chief executive of Virgin Money, who led the government’s review into women in finance, told the Commons Treasury select committee that sexism is deeply embedded in industry...
...Anne Millard and Steve Noon’s book came back to mind with the opening pages of Pascale Hugues’ Hannah’s Dress, winner of the 2014 European Book Prize in its French original....
...Anne Byrne researched their options and found Hometeam, a digital start-up offering caregiving services to residents of New York state....
...Ugly Anne of Cleves had long gone and Wolf Hall had finished bringing up the bodies....
...FICTION Hope: A Tragedy, by Shalom Auslander, Picador, RRP£16.99, 208 pages Anne Frank turns up, alive but ancient, hiding in the attic of neurotic salesman Solomon Kugel....
...The Netherlands, which last century offered refuge to figures as diverse as Anne Frank, Kaiser Wilhelm and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, has lately been sealing its borders....
...There was a tense pause; then the Kaiser exploded into uneasy laughter....
...The other nervous moment came at the end of the first world war when the crowned heads of Europe – the Tsar, the Kaisers, the Habsburg Emperor – began to be toppled....
...In this respect le Carré’s George Smiley novels shift closer to Spooks : the main private relationship – between George Smiley and wife Anne – is, on her side, faithless and on his, doggedly miserable....
...Lark & Termite By Jayne Anne Phillips Jonathan Cape, £16.99 Lark, a precociously wise 12-year-old, cares for her disabled half-brother Termite in small-town West Virginia....
...They fail to learn the language, don’t find jobs, or are fleeced by property sharks. ”Selling the Spanish dream has become something of an industry,” says Anne Hall, author of Making a Living in Spain (...
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