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...Snow, by John Banville, Faber, RRP£14.99, 352 pages There’s a colonel, there’s a candlestick, and there’s a body in the library....
...That’s the line Jack Nicholson’s character Colonel Nathan R. Jessup fires back at Tom Cruise’s Lt. Daniel Kaffee in the 1992 film A Few Good Men, in response to being told “I want the truth!”...
...Or Colonel John George Miller Ridehalgh (“King of the Lake”), who lit one of his several steamers with gas generated on board with a device straight out of a Heath Robinson cartoon....
...Email duncan.robinson@ft.com Twitter @duncanrobinson The Donald, Fillon and the return of the Walloons How to deal with The Donald?...
...She was influenced by the painterly approach of Gertrude Jekyll and the naturalistic style of William Robinson. But when at the age of 51 her marriage foundered, she faced financial ruin....
...At least 29 generals and more than 20 colonels are among the almost 6,000 people who have been arrested....
...Mouadan was killed on December 24 and had been planning attacks against the west, said Colonel Steve Warren, a spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, the US military operation against Isis....
...“Srebrenica is our scar,” says Colonel Ludy De Vos, an officer who served in the enclave before it fell. “We cannot get rid of it, but we can try to live with it.”...
...Colonel Harland Sanders opened his first Kentucky Fried Chicken store at 65. Daniel Defoe completed Robinson Crusoe just before his 60th birthday. Mark Twain published Huckleberry Finn aged 49....
...Colonel Vaughn de Vries finds a cold case getting hot when the corpses of two white teenagers are found and the troubled policeman becomes obsessed with bringing a vicious criminal to justice....
...… Lila, by Marilynne Robinson, Virago, RRP£16.99/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$26 Having published only four novels in 35 years, “Marilynne Robinson is America’s most highly acclaimed and respected,...
...It was taken north under an unknown name in 1816 and was introduced to New York state by Colonel George Gibbs, an amateur grower from Brooklyn, Long Island....
...While Cromwell’s troops scoured the ground below, he shared the heart-pounding, breath-holding ordeal with the ominously named Colonel William Careless....
...Libya’s current crisis has focused attention on both the huge sums reaped by the regime from oil and the high-profile spending by family members overseas, such as the colonel’s plan to plough €16m ($21.9m...
...France, Britain and the US received the green light to conduct air strikes against Colonel Gaddafi’s forces in Libya after the UN Security Council approved a resolution authorising “all necessary measures...
...In fact, on Sunday Saleh even borrowed the good Colonel’s words, vowing to fight “with every drop of blood” to stay in power....
...Colonel Gaddafi would depict this as an act of war, with highly uncertain political consequences....
...Comment analysis and other offerings from Friday’s FT, Editorial comment: Time to muzzle Libya’s mad dog Although his own cause must surely now be lost, Colonel Muammer Gaddafi continues to lash out viciously...
...Anne Robinson standing against Hazel Blears? Nicky Campbell versus Michael Gove? These celebrity independents have an intriguing track record....
...Alexander Lebedev, a former KGB lieutenant-colonel, a deputy of the Russian State Duma and billionaire banker, approached Daily Mail & General Trust last month with an offer to buy the Evening Standard,...
...Vincent Tchenguiz, the UK property tycoon, has signed a $20m deal with Colonel Muammer Gadaffi’s government which could help foreign defence and aerospace groups fulfil investment obligations taken on to...
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