Hints and tips:
...People will put away a perfectly good toaster or kettle and buy a new one, not because the old one is gone but it’s a new colour, new features.”...
...That afternoon I wandered into a verdant, and determinedly monolingual compound: a museum to writer Mikhail Lermontov, often considered a Russian Byron....
...Claire Messud Author of ‘The Woman Upstairs’ One of the most powerful and resonant books I’ve read this year is Edna O’Brien’s haunting novel The Little Red Chairs (Faber)....
...The Little Red Chairs, by Edna O’Brien, Faber, RRP£18.99 Inspired by Radovan Karadzic’s disguise while on the run, The Little Red Chairs starts with the arrival of a bearded stranger, “Dr Vladimir Dragan...
...Then add about a litre of hot water from the kettle, and the beef....
...“Ingenious but uncommercial” is a diplomatic description for some candidates, such as the eco-friendly Carbon Kettle. This glows red when the National Grid is short of juice....
...The kettle stands nearby, bubbling gently; the glasses are constantly refilled; the table is kept supplied with watermelon and lychees, with pumpkin seeds, with dried fish strips, with lotus-paste cake,...
...He also hinted that Andersen probably had a stronger tie to Disney - with its talking and anxious kettles and mice....
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