Hints and tips:
...Carol F Kessler’s Daring to Dream: Utopian Fiction by United States Women Before 1950 is a good reference point, as is Rebecca M Marrall’s Women of Color in Speculative Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography...
...The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s Chinaby Kevin Rudd, PublicAffairs £25/$32 A Mandarin-speaking former prime minister of Australia, Rudd has become...
...Pam Cotton Conn owns a dealership in Carol Stream, Illinois....
...Second, you stand a pretty good chance of meeting the 97-year-old novelist who owns it, F Sionil José, who can remember back to the second world war.”...
...In that case, growls Marley, “I am without doubt stuck here for f***ing ever!”...
...London Crossword 16,278: Peter Bromwich, Birmingham; James Reid, Fife, Scotland; EASherratt, Staffordshire, England Polymath 1,040: Patricia Blakemore, West Midlands, England Crossword 16,272: Martha F...
...We meet a few weeks after filming on A Christmas Carol has wrapped, and he still seems to be on a post-shoot high....
...She reveals that the only conversation she had about Windrush with her brother-in-law Boris Johnson, now prime minister, was at a family birthday party: “You really f***ed the Commonwealth summit,” he told...
...“We can’t carry on with this f***ed up parliament — it is causing real damage to the country,” said one Tory aide....
...Saying “F**k business”, when asked about the challenge posed by Brexit to British companies, was monumentally foolish and at odds with his behaviour as mayor....
...“It’s the most wonderful f***ing thing in the world. And, yes, your entire pelvic floor crumbles and you get f***ing hot and no one cares, but then you’re free....
...Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, caused anger among business leaders when it emerged that he had said “f*** business” in a private conversation....
...Similarly, French-Canadian director Xavier Dolan’s first English-language effort, The Death and Life of John F Donovan, sounded like Oscar bait, with a supporting cast including Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates...
...Amber Rudd, until recently UK home secretary, for a time ran the family investment business and was also director on two Bahamas funds....
...Booker is survived by his second wife, Carol, three children and many grandchildren....
...Amber Rudd, the home secretary, helped with a standing ovation, and ordered Mr Johnson, the foreign secretary, to do the same....
...Richards has just retired from working out four years at Berry Bros & Rudd, the 300-year-old St James’s wine merchant to whom his company Richards Walford became the single biggest supplier....
...“F***ing disaster,” tweeted Labour MP John Woodcock. “Worse [sic] week for Cameron since he came in and that stupid f***ing list makes us into a laughing stock,” he posted, before quickly deleting it....
...Two years into her job as finance director, Carol Fairweather will be stepping down in favour of Julie Brown, her counterpart at Smith & Nephew, the medical devices company....
...The day before, Amber Rudd, May’s replacement as home secretary, endorsed tougher rules on hiring foreigners and pledged to “put the interests of the British people first”....
...The stance of an energy department led by the appropriately-named Amber Rudd has switched from positive to neutral. The electorate is disinclined to give a damn....
...Female chief executives and finance directors, such as Carolyn McCall of easyJet and Carol Fairweather of Burberry are still a relative rarity....
...“If I have to go because I’m mentally or physically f****d then maybe I’ve got to go, but I’m not going willingly, I’m going screaming,” he says....
...Yet without major stars, Room is the scrappy upstart compared with heavyweights such as Carol, starring eternal Academy favourite Cate Blanchett, or The Revenant....
...‘F’, by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Carol Brown Janeaway, Quercus, RRP£16.99/Pantheon RRP$25.95, 272 pages...
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