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...It became known as “The Ugly Duchess” after it inspired John Tenniel’s illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)....
...It had already crossed Brian Carroll’s mind that it “might not be the best idea” to take the metro in Brussels on Tuesday morning, since he had seen news of an explosion at the airport....
...Toby’s Room , by Pat Barker, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99 Barker, who made the first world war her domain with the Regeneration trilogy, returns to it here....
...For decades suburbia was sneered at by those with taste and money; Barker attempts to expose this as class and intellectual prejudice, and redefines the suburb as a successful heterotopia....
...She, in Nancy Carroll’s lovely performance, is skittish, passionate, desperate; he, as portrayed by Will Keen, burns with a restless zeal to achieve something of lasting value....
...In at least two plays, The Voysey Inheritance and The Madras House, Harley Granville Barker proved himself more substantial than all of them....
...A year on from publication of the Barker Report there are still severe constraints in housing supply....
...As Aidan O'Carroll, head of tax at Ernst & Young, an accountant, has pointed out, this is both irrational and anti-competitive....
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