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...The shady Jewish-diamond link was a staple of Victorian fiction, in the works of Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins and Rider Haggard....
...That changed in 1977, when Larkin and the critic David Cecil both named her in the Times Literary Supplement as the most underrated novelist of the 20th century....
...When Bacon unveiled his portrait of Cecil Beaton, the society photographer almost fainted. He had been turned, wrote Beaton, into “a severe case of elephantiasis”....
...The old Collins Barracks now houses the National Museum of Ireland, which has amazing pieces by Eileen Gray....
...Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy, JFK’s Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth, by Paula Byrne, William Collins, RRP£20, 352 pages...
...The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood, by Richard Fortey, William Collins, RRP£22, 304 pages Melissa Harrison is author of ‘Rain: Four Walks in English Weather’ (Faber)...
...“A buyer may look at one that’s just five years old,” says Chris Cecil-Wright, a broker, “but if it hasn’t been looked after, there will be problems....
...And so London’s Fumi Gallery, which represents Lemut, will also be showing the Boullée Table, made from mirrored glass and etched steel, designed by architect Brooksbank and fine artist Collins, where a...
...Over at The Cecil, Julia Collins (ex-Maialino) has been joined by Paula Tucker (formerly of Meyer’s Jazz Standard)....
...episode features Blake Carrington, CEO of Denver-Carrington, despairing about the prospect of becoming an oil tycoon in distress due to the 1980s oil glut and having to rely on ex-wife Alexis Colby (Joan Collins...
...Much of the freedom in Walbeoffe’s artistic style can be traced back to her time studying with Cecil Collins at the Central Saint Martins School of Art in London during the 1980s....
...Clive Collins, cartoonist and illustrator. Alastair Cook, England cricketer. Pamela J. Crook, painter. Julia Donaldson, author and new Children’s Laureate. Jessica Ennis, athlete....
...Holding it at Cecil Sharp House, named after the archivist who founded the English Folk Dance and Song Society before the first world war, was “a bit cheeky”, as the band admitted – they are folk-influenced...
...Heartbreaking, humorous and filled with wondrously precise prose, the novel centres on Cecil Valance, a mediocre poet killed in the first world war....
...Nemesis: The Battle for Japan 1944-45 By Max Hastings Harper Collins £25, 704 pages FT bookshop price: £20 Cecil Beaton once remarked that charity events and amateur dramatics could bring out the worst...
...Attracting belated attention are John Bratby and the “Kitchen Sink” movement, and Cecil Collins and the “neo-romantics”. The real bargains are to be found among painters of the earlier 20th century....
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