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...In Lamu, Martin Kimani invents a word, “whiskerish”, to describe our Scotch-fuelled arguments....
...This can become too much for the family,” Martin says....
...His novels don’t have the sentence-by-sentence virtuosity of Martin Amis’s, or the polished plottedness of Ian McEwan’s....
...Then he goes on to condemn the friendship between hero Holly Martins and Harry Lime — the film’s sustaining premise — as “buggery, boys. Just buggery.”...
...Round on the Links The link was chess The Woman in White Conrad Black Emily Bishop “Castle on the Hill” Martin Luther King day Pawn shop The Dark Knight Alexander McQueen Checkpoint Charlie Endgame...
...In a fair vote, either Felix Tshisekedi or Martin Fayulu might well beat Mr Kabila’s placeman....
...The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, by Maya Jasanoff, William Collins, RRP£25/Penguin Press, RRP$30 Harvard historian Jasanoff explores what Conrad termed his “life in the wide world”....
...He takes the company private but within three years a debt crisis pushes it into receivership 1991 Canadian media baron Conrad Black and Australian media magnate Kerry Packer, pictured above, join forces...
...But it soon becomes plain that the tale is darker and weirder than other fleeting comparisons — Robert Louis Stevenson in sinister mood, Joseph Conrad in morally festering form....
...Extreme weather destroyed the set, actor Martin Sheen had a breakdown and a heart attack, and when the shoot was over, the director had thousands of feet of film to edit — a task that led to the release...
...Conrad Ford, chief executive of Funding Options, warned that some big banks might complicate the process by introducing bureaucratic hurdles....
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...struggle to make sensible financial decisions when unwell, according to a survey of 5,500 people by the charity, which was launched earlier this year with a £2m donation from Money Saving Expert founder Martin...
...The Worlds of Joseph Conrad, by Maya Jasanoff, William Collins, RRP£25 A window into the world at the dawn of the 20th century through the life and work of a great novelist....
...In this modern retelling of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), the part of the questing seaman Marlow is taken by Martin Louw (aka Marlouw), a club-footed Afrikaner saucepan salesman now living in...
...The annual event has become a must-attend event for advertising group executives, such as WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell, as well as the media groups, including DMGT, Google and Facebook, that court their business...
...It’s an education, too, to see Conrad Atkinson’s impeccable wall piece “Northern Ireland 1968-May Day 1975”, where photographs and slogans from Loyalist, Republican and British army factions winkle out the...
...It is, however, far too early to be confident of such benefits, says Martin Wolf....
...The North Water has, in places, a Conrad-Melville undercurrent, but for the most part it is Dickens’s influence that is most keenly felt....
...Sea Lovers, by Valerie Martin, Serpent’s Tail, RRP£8.99/Nan A Talese, RRP$25.95 Orange Prize-winning author Martin was raised in New Orleans, and many of the unusual 12 stories in this collection are set...
...One encounters favourite writers such as Conrad, Kipling and Philip Larkin as well as those he previously neglected, such as Olivia Manning....
...Asterix and the Missing Scroll, by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, translated by Anthea Bell, Orion, RRP£10.99/Asterix RRP$17.99 The indomitable Gaul is back in this second outing from Ferri and Conrad...
...A new commission by UK artist Conrad Shawcross will go on display in the new hotel. Establishing a foundation is an option for the Tasmanian visionary....
...Michael Craig-Martin’s yellow-gold “Light Bulb Necklace” imitates the brightly-coloured outlines of everyday objects in his large-scale “sculptures of drawings” series....
...This collection of mini-essays warmly endorses books he has been rereading, from his much-favoured Joseph Conrad to the overlooked Olivia Manning. “I wanted to prove I was still alive,” says James....
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