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...Catherine Doyle’s delightful novel moves deftly from melancholy to “jolly holly”, genial all the way....
...“It isn’t the future but the past that kills you,” broods Florent-Claude Labrouste (he loathes his fancy name) as this 46-year-old fugitive from work, love and life tours the places where it all went wrong...
...Nonetheless, fireworks were few and the top-priced lots — Claude Monet’s “La Gare Saint-Lazare, vue extérieure” (1877) and Pablo Picasso’s 1942 “Femme dans un fauteuil (Dora Maar)” — sold for £22m (£25m...
...In correspondence from 2010 that surfaced in the Irish Times yesterday, Jean-Claude Trichet, then president of the ECB, in effect threatens to cut off support for Ireland’s banking sector – and hence for...
...Mr Doyle said: “Lord Hill’s appointment is a political coup for the UK, but it has also come as something of a shock to certain quarters in Brussels....
...Horowitz, commissioned by the Conan Doyle estate, provides pitch-perfect atmosphere in a novel that’s both a tribute to Holmes’s creator and a grace note, with a politically damning conundrum at its heart...
...I always refer to what Claude Lévi-Strauss said, ‘When we alter scale we sacrifice the sensible in favour of the intelligible.’” Ultimately, that is what these miniature places do....
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