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...Leigh-Anne Treadwell runs the Bristol Upholstery Collective. She finds that people enrol in her courses because “upholstery is an expensive service but people can afford to mend their own piece”....
...Doubtfire and the first two Harry Potter movies? Which actress is the great-granddaughter of British prime minister Herbert Asquith? Who wrote Anne of Green Gables?...
...was thrown in prison for a while and famously wrote: “John Donne, Anne Donne, undone”)....
...Here with me in New York, he’s just got those Harry Potter proofs to the twins. It’s US financial commentator and men’s style columnist Rob Armstrong....
...That his wife Anne, worldly wise and more literate than he, had helped him write a false CV to get his first acting job....
...I’ve recently rediscovered ceramics, particularly pieces from Baltimore, which is a town of potters....
...“I’ve got a Queen Anne. I haven’t got George I, but I think I’ve got every monarch after that.”...
...A sale of 13 plates by the late Sussex potter Quentin Bell at Ewbank’s last month made a serious dent in my savings — expecting to win none I instead won three, of which my favourite is a little pink fish...
...This staple in stories from Alice in Wonderland to Harry Potter excites the adult imagination, too: it appears, alongside hidden passageways and sliding bookcases, in many spy films and thrillers....
...“I have copies of Alice in Wonderland, The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables and Little Women, to name a few....
...Arturo Belano livrariacultura.com.br Livraria Lello, Porto The neo-Gothic stained-glass windows and ornate plasterwork of this bookshop were part of the inspiration for the library in the Harry Potter...
...Meanwhile, in Cumberland, Beatrix Potter — Mrs Heelis, if you don’t mind — fears her inspiration has dried up....
...The house is filled with relics of her dead grandmother, a potter, and nearby lies a temple guarded by fox spirits....
...How else to explain the vicious attack on the Barbican’s public by the Brussels-based troupe Rosas under the command of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker on Thursday night? . . ....
...Statues of Winston Churchill, Princess Diana and Harry Potter add to the novelty of the scheme....
...Her authors spanned her passions, from Mary Berry, the food writer, to Edmund de Waal, a potter whose The Hare with the Amber Eyes became an international sensation....
...Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter was introduced to the Hollywood composer through her former husband André Previn and that meeting has spawned several projects....
...A: Jade, Perrie, Leigh-Anne and Jesy are the four members of which band? B: What kind of crocodile did Roald Dahl write about?...
...andrew.hill@ft.com Twitter: @andrewtghill Letter in response to this column: Alfred Nobel himself disdained the boring business of management / From David Potter, Donnington, Berks, UK...
...JK RowlingThe author putting children at the centre of our narrative JK Rowling had just begun to write the first of the Harry Potter novels when her mother Anne died in 1990, having suffered from multiple...
...Harry Potter is mentioned by many a biodynamic sceptic. One of New Zealand’s most admired wine producers, Felton Road of Central Otago, is famously biodynamic....
...Restored My Appetite, which tells the story of how a diet of good books aided her recovery from teenage anorexia, and how reading about food — from Dickensian plum pudding to the magical sweet treats of Harry Potter...
...JK Rowling, arguably the most famous author of our times, was advised by her publisher Bloomsbury to release the first Harry Potter book in 1997 under her initials rather than her name, Joanne, in a bid...
...The word “gastronomical” has not worn well since the 1940s and to anyone who has read Harry Potter, it sounds a bit like Magical Me by Gilderoy Lockhart....
...It brought fame: JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, shared Bana’s tweets with her millions of followers....
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