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...So when I’m presenting my book to members of the armed forces or diplomats working at foreign ministries, I’m often asked, can we replicate the success of 1949 when the Geneva Conventions were adopted?...
...Think of him as an assistant “M”, in Whitehall and in the field, plotting to spirit Belgium’s gold reserves from Nazi-besieged Bordeaux or to seize German cipher machines....
...“I’m really very grateful,” says Casimir....
...“I’m an optimist....
...The Encounters installations (each measuring up to 100 sq m) slot into an area between the two exhibition halls....
...This is captivating, disquieting prose, deftly captured in David Boyd’s translation....
...Prices there rose 20 per cent last year, more than any other suburb, and the median sold price in 2023 was $24,352 per sq m, compared with the Sydney average of $2,590 per sq m....
...The shop’s famous lemon conserve is therefore much less bitter than the marmalade I’m used to, with just a little zing....
...Jonathan Morrow, chief executive of M&M Auto Parts in Virginia, said that EVs were physically separated from other cars in the yard to reduce the risk of fire and marked with a sticker to indicate it was...
...A Book of Falsehoodsby Jaan Kross, translated by Merike Lepasaar Beecher, Quercus £16.99 The final instalment in Jaan Kross’s Between Three Plagues series....
...“I’m also really excited that we have a painting by Sahara Longe (£40,000-£60,000),” says Lord of the London-based artist who was classically trained in portrait painting in Florence and currently has a...
...I’m staying at Maison 76, Matthews’ luxurious, four-room B&B set in a former 18th-century apothecary. He tells me that the golfers are fewer now....
...Liontrust non-executive directors Emma Howard Boyd and Quintin Price have quit over a row about the chair’s 12-year tenure on the board....
...“I’m sorry I’m late. I had to ‘borrow’ a boat to get here, and the owners weren’t too happy about it. I only just escaped with a little help from Mr Holmes.” Mountstuart is mesmerised....
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...“I’m nothing. I’ll always be nothing,” one landmark poem puts it, “But I have in me all the dreams of the world.”...
...It is so “sophisticated” in its “unspooling”, agrees William Boyd, that for the “sheer aesthetic pleasure of reading,” he has returned to it “three or four times”....
...And I’m pretty sure, a few years down the line, we might look back and go, gosh, you know, what we were doing then was so primitive!”...
...“My bad,” says a girl after making a mistake, but I’m not sure people said that then. It’s a rare false note in this short but assured novel....
...I’m lucky I’m not a writer.” He grins conspiratorially. “Actors do all these things people don’t know about. Almost every actor I know secretly paints, and it’s mostly pretty awful.”...
...“I’m very interested in decay and how we honour plants through their whole life cycle – and indeed how we honour ourselves through our whole life cycle,” says landscape architect Marian Boswall, whose practice...
...William Boyd’s new novel, “TRIO”, will be published in October Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...“I know that I’m making an album a year, and that it’ll go in sequence,” he says....
...You would think, I can’t believe I’m getting paid for this. But when people are making billions off music and don’t share it, that hurts,” he says....
...“In the future we’ll replace the car, but not the battery; of that I’m very confident,” he says....
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