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...Literary cyclists may care to stop briefly at the grave of the novelist Thomas Mann, who made Kilchberg his home in his last days, before aiming for the Sihl and leaving views of Lake Zürich and its sprawling...
...But you’ll search in vain for a headstone: neither grave is marked. Last year, to make amends, O’Farrell planted two young rowan trees in their memory....
...And in the midst of the story comes possibly the most wonderful description of the big Christmas food shop in all of contemporary literature, in which long-suffering people-pleaser Constance attempts to...
...Nestling in the foothills of the Alps near Lake Constance, it is stunningly pretty, filled with colourful, perfectly restored baroque and Renaissance buildings, and surrounded by lush meadows and forests...
...Learning that Jane and Willie lie in unknown, unmarked graves leaves the reader with the saddest pang of all....
...In my case a giant pyramidal tomb points the way to the granite obelisk that marks my mother’s grave and commemorates the date 2011....
...There she was on BBC Woman’s Hour, Constance Spry herself, speaking crisply on the car radio as if from beyond the grave....
...The King of Germany finally knocked some heads together at the Council of Constance, and the schism was ended....
...A scene where she flees the police and is rescued is thrilling; when she is captured, her imprisonment, and illness as a result of forced-feeding, is detailed with grave poignancy....
...Mothercare bibs and bodysuits are offered alongside Dignity’s funeral services in the cradle-to-grave sector called general retailers....
...But by now I was at the top and ready for the longest descent of the day, a 30-mile blast past the steep snow-covered slopes of La Meije, through the village of La Grave and back to Bourg d’Oisans....
...Analysis: Britain — faring less well The coming years may prove a bitter battle over the boundaries of Britain’s “cradle to grave” welfare state – and over its affordability....
...A new novel from a major writer 40 years after her death is a marvellous gift from beyond the grave. And “freshness” isn’t the half of it – it’s magnetic and very disturbing....
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