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...Susie Blake, Richenda Carey, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Anne Reid, Daniel Rigby, Kate Robbins, David Threlfall, Julie Walters and Jane Wymark each take their turn at narrating Rees’s detailed account of...
...American crime queen Karin Slaughter has long been happy to discuss the art of plotting with aspiring novelists....
...Wood holds the whole morass together, making a transition from Innocence to Experience worthy of William Blake....
...foreword on Britain’s lingering ambivalence towards empire that its imperial past was “long a matter of national pride and a source of prestige as well as a litany of exploitation, famine, cruelty and slaughter...
...Dr Pangloss, Candide’s tutor, who despite a procession of slaughters and rapes will not be shaken from his optimistic dogma that this is “the best of all possible worlds”, gesticulates inanely in Blake’s...
...Zurbarán’s bodegónes, however, are objects of meditation and the fact that he saw them in a religious light is attested by one of the most memorable of them: an ordinary lamb laid on a board and trussed for slaughter...
...Mary Padbury chaired Blake Dawson, which merged with Ashurst, the City firm, as part of the Antipodean merger mania that has swept London-headquartered firms....
...Blake Edwards’s 1962 movie made sense and drama out of a drink-sodden relationship. Smashed makes sound and fury and all that those usually signify....
...A few years earlier Leonardo had written himself a brief for painting a no-holds-barred cavalry clash of unparalleled ferocity, stressing that all the tangled violence and agony of mass slaughter must be...
...Andrew Slaughter, the local Labour MP, has labelled the move an “act of cultural vandalism” by a council widely held up by Tory ministers as an exemplar of good practice....
...282 pages Insanity: My Mad Life by Charles Bronson Blake Publishing £7.99, 335 pages...
...At what age are they sent to the slaughter house? What is done with their bones? Where do such animals pasture in the daytime? Do they have females and young?...
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