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...Open Monday to Thursday, 7am–4pm; Friday, 7.30am–3.30pm Website; Directions This Queen Anne-era building, designed by the renowned Baroque architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, was where the slaver-turned-priest...
...Other highlights from the first quarter include Love Marriage (Virago, February), a new novel from Monica Ali, and Anne Tyler’s French Braid (Chatto & Windus, March)....
...Sir John urged voters to support three pro-European former ministers — Dominic Grieve, David Gauke and Anne Milton — who are running as Independents against Tory candidates on December 12....
...Anne Enright March 23, 6pmSheldonian Theatre, £7-£15 Novelist Anne Enright discusses her life in writing with Louise Richardson, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford....
...Chris Patten’s First Confession reminds us of the still recent age when the Tories’ top ranks were brimming with talent and moderation was not seen as a badge of shame....
...“He’s not a professional broadcaster and he’s not there to run the BBC editorially,” said former BBC Trust chairman Chris Patten....
...First Confession, by Chris Patten, Allen Lane, RRP£20 A memoir by the politician who presided over the UK’s handover of Hong Kong to China 20 years ago....
...He also brought in Anne Bulford, who had been his finance chief at the Opera House. Some insiders regard this as a slightly claustrophobic clique but Hall is unapologetic....
...Marguerite Patten, cookery writer. Stephen Phipson, president, Smiths Detection Group. Hope Powell, England women’s football coach. William Roe, chairman, Highlands and Islands Enterprise....
...There were also CBEs for Prue Leith and Marguerite Patten, two women whose example in the kitchen helped to haul Britain into the culinary modern age....
...Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University The late Tony Judt published two books in 2010....
...The race was led from start to almost-finish by the British pair Keri-Anne Payne and Cassie Patten, who set the pace together....
...In the Olympic 10km open water swim, Larisa Ilchenko of Russia won by less than 2sec from Keri-Anne Payne of Great Britain and her countrywoman Cassie Patten, sprinting past the pair in the last 100m of...
...Before Mrs Marshall, doyenne of ices, came Mary Eales, confectioner to Queen Anne, who published her recipe for ices as a kind of frozen cream pot and also brought jam to public attention as a way of flavouring...
...Patten’s moue says more than the chopstick tongs or the handbag....
...But witness this tale, told to chic young journalist Anne Sofie Kragh in one of several heart-to-hearts for the book....
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