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...Lot No 249, Arthur Conan Doyle’s late-Victorian tale about a campus tormented by the undead, is the latest classic supernatural horror to be adapted for the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series....
...The late 19th-century “fan”, writing angry letters to Arthur Conan Doyle to protest his decision to kill off Sherlock Holmes in “The Final Problem”, or writing Holmes stories of their own — what we would...
...Smith’s best defence is that he is in plentiful company....
...Ex-con Steven Smith has recorded the story of his life on his mobile phone....
...Instagram Letter in response to this article: Legacy of London’s Olympics shows the regeneration challenge / From Alastair Conan, London CR5, UK...
...The podcasts I’m listening to include Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Fresh Air and This American Life. It’s all non-fiction, but more storytelling. If I want real news, I’ll just listen to NPR....
...The comedian and talk-show host Conan O’Brien launched a podcast Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend last autumn, predicated on the slightly silly conceit that he has no friends beyond those on his payroll and...
...Rathbone Brothers’ merger talks with Smith & Williamson — confirmed on Monday — usher in the prospect of a £2bn combined group, no doubt called Rathbone Smith & Williamson....
...His emblematic short story is “Silver Blaze” by Arthur Conan Doyle, which concerns a stolen racehorse rescued by Sherlock Holmes....
...These plans were routinely thwarted by his great foe, Denis Nayland Smith, a less brainy counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes – but only temporarily, as Fu Manchu would always rise again to...
...From Create Your Own Economy, I remember that the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Adam Smith were influenced deeply by their positions on the autistic spectrum....
...Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Joseph Schumpeter – they’re not just writing about economics, but about politics and culture and society and morality.” He drains his cup....
...about the Continent from London to Paris to Switzerland, looking to stop a complicated (or frankly incomprehensible) world war conspiracy, the inalienable truth gathers critical mass: you could put Will Smith...
...To Conan Doyle, he was always the brute.” Sir Arthur, genius though he was, thought little of his most famous creation Sherlock Holmes....
...Cumberbatch was pressed into the same mould as Smith (they have the same writers). In Conan Doyle’s stories, Holmes’s arrogance was actually a proper pride in his art, his only salve to despair....
...There But For The , by Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99 A dinner-party guest locks himself in the host’s spare room and refuses to leave....
...Moorcock comes out of the old-school pulp tradition with antecedents such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, of Tarzan fame, and Robert E Howard, who created Conan....
...Conan the Republican condescends to say that the bill is “similar to California’s Global Warming Solutions Act” which he signed last year, and that “Great Britain” is doing at national level what California...
...Another Smith - Zadie - pays homage to E.M....
...Eugene Smith, taking pictures of industrial Pittsburgh in the same decade, thought his project akin to a contemporary Ulysses....
...Each issue rounds up the coolest of literary names - from Zadie Smith to Jonathan Safran Foer and David Foster Wallace - and appears in a skittish variety of forms....
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