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...I still skip the bit in The Human Factor, Graham Greene’s tightest yarn, where the turncoat spy must dispose of his dog en route to Moscow....
...Writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene, Orson Welles and James M....
...friend of Plunket Greene’s in the 1940s)....
...The IoD is embroiled in turmoil, after the departure of its chairman, Lady Barbara Judge, after the leaking of a legal investigation into racist comments which she is alleged to have made....
...TS Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Stanley Spencer, Eric Gill, Graham Sutherland and John Piper are prominent examples....
...Yet Le Carré works more in the pessimistic tradition of Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene. As good and vital as he is, he’s no Orwell or Wells....
...Other contributors included William Trevor, Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell, Eric Newby, Harry Enfield and, rather marvellously, Barbara Cartland....
...Others are best read in pairs, the same trip by fellow travellers and writers, such as Graham Greene’s dark Journey without Maps (1936) and, two years later, his cousin Barbara Greene’s Too Late to Turn...
...Another cousin, Barbara, had married into the German aristocracy. A third cousin, Felix, was a pacifist, a “photo hippie”, and generally useless....
...The store’s current pearl offerings include a Nicholas Kirkwood satin pump with pearl platform and a CD Greene off-white gown boasting an all-pearl bodice with pearl straps....
...In 2005, when Moya Greene took over as chief executive, she listed employee engagement as a priority....
...He is currently living in Fort Greene, Brooklyn....
...Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick, Granta RRP£8.99 Much-praised 2010 winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, this is a painstakingly researched and gruelling account...
...Rival Greene King slipped 1 per cent to 746½p as it was downgraded to “neutral” by the same bank. There was some profit taking in defence group BAE Systems, down 1.7 per cent to 378½p....
...Greene Co now asks buyers to sign a “Goodwill Charter”, agreeing to honour the agreed price or else lose a £2,000 bond....
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