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...Everywhere – framed and unframed, displayed on side tables or fireplace mantels or tucked into the corner of a mirror – are family photos....
...“I’d rather have a plate of less, but where each one is generous. That feels really sumptuous and luxurious,” says Eagle....
...At 1,650m, the resort offers skiing up to 3,600m on the Glacier de Mantel, although summer skiing has now been limited....
...I’d also love to do a fireplace in a faux painted finish. What’s better than real marble? Fake marble, of course!...
...The desire to write is a kind of obsession quite religious in its intensity: I’d do it whether I was published or not. Do you believe in an afterlife?...
...The clinic repairs and sells everything from longcase or grandfather clocks to elegant French mantel clocks, and classic pocket and wristwatches (they did a beautiful job on my 19th-century mahogany barometer...
...I take a bath, drink herbal tea, stick a dried pea under the mattress, put my phone away and try to read Hilary Mantel. The feeling of a Hästens is full of contradictions....
...At times I wanted to tell colleagues, to explain why I’d gone so quiet....
...She’d return with wreaths, centrepieces and red cheeks. Ivy would be propped up on the nails left in the low beams of our house by previous occupants, sometimes from decades before....
...“I’d no idea what they did in this big, ominous edifice, but we knew it was a nuclear target and that we’d get vaporised if it was ever hit. I’ve always felt a weird affinity with the place.”...
...“After we closed, I’d come home and there would be two doors on my fence, maybe a light fixture someone dropped off on my front porch,” she says....
...I wrestled with Roberto Bolaño, not really getting into The Savage Detectives until I’d read 100 pages — but I was so glad I stayed, because once I began to understand what he was doing, I was there for...
...(Although overmantel mirrors generally belong above mantels, and landscape-shaped mirrors are not usually to my taste.)...
...With his Californian ranch named Apocalypse Now, smart London apartment and Cap d’Antibes property, Le Plein Soleil, Hunter is an Elon Musk-type character who St Aubyn initially has a lot of fun with, before...
...Mills & Boon guarantees a happy ending, but Ferguson’s own story is the tragi-romance of so many royals: “however airy the enclosure they inhabit, it’s still a cage,” as the novelist Hilary Mantel has put...
...Nor is he interested in the forensic historical realism of Hilary Mantel or Pat Barker, or the formal playfulness of Ali Smith....
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...“I loved the books and was captivated by the trade, but sometimes I’d read a beautiful auction catalogue and there wouldn’t be a single book by or about a woman,” she recalls....
...I have a feeling that if Cromwell were around today, he wouldn’t be a politician or a bureaucrat, he’d be a chef-restaurateur. At least that’s how he’d be happiest....
...Letter in response to this article: Gardiner was an important 16th century figure / From C D C Armstrong, Belfast, N Ireland...
...“But we’d charge £800 to £1,500 for restoration, depending on the state of the piece and whether it needed welding.”...
...—Xerion NYC The Price of Peace by Zachary D....
...C D C Armstrong Belfast, N Ireland...
...They tell me about the ancient history of the region, which pre-dates the presence of their farm by almost 3,000 years; the Piazza D’Armi of Veii – where the Romans laid siege to, and ultimately defeated...
...Most exciting of all, Hilary Mantel completes her Tudor trilogy with The Mirror & the Light (Fourth Estate RRP£25/Henry Holt RRP$30, March)....
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