Hints and tips:
...He chose a hill at Le Port-Marly, 15 miles west of Paris, and commissioned Hippolyte Durand to realise the designs. The architect was dubious. “The ground is a clay base,” he said....
...“No opus has filled me with greater joy than this,” Grieg wrote proudly of his new home, name-checking it in his piano composition “Wedding Day at Troldhaugen”, Opus 65, No 6....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Deborah Levy’s memoir The Cost of Living, which I read in two hours....
...Claer BarrettFT consumer editor Dragons’ Den star Deborah Meaden made her first buck when she was seven years old selling flowers from her garden....
...Deborah Bruce’s new play, Dixon and Daughters at the National Theatre, marks the end of a jail sentence in more ways than one....
...Our heroine is Ama (Le’Shantey Bonsu), a bright-spark 11-year-old living with her African migrant mother, Grace (Déborah Lukumuena)....
...“Espresso White Aspen Raspberry Candy”, it teases, before continuing with “Freeze Distilled Finca Deborah Milky”....
...Not the Los Angeles-based collector and radiologist, Joy Simmons. From the get-go she knew she wanted to collect work that reflected her own heritage as an African American....
...Joy Gregory Deborah Turbeville — ‘Jean Muir in London’, 1975 I knew quite early on that I wanted to work with photography and had an overwhelming desire to access the darkroom at school — a quiet, solitary...
...Yet each type of plant is different in its fragrance, taste and disposition, which accounts for the distinct joys in working with each of them....
...Real Estateby Deborah Levy, Hamish Hamilton £10.99/Bloomsbury $20 The third and final instalment in Levy’s “living autobiography” finds her facing an empty nest as her daughter leaves for university....
...I also love it when things fit well but are efficient too, like Deborah Pagani’s hair pins – both beautiful and solid....
...But much was riding on “Arcadia”, theatre director Deborah Warner’s installation in Manchester’s half-built Factory, the city’s ambitious new cultural venue....
...Central to this scene are imaginative impresarios such as Prototype’s Beth Morrison and Deborah Borda, president of the New York Philharmonic, with her Project 19 commissions to female composers....
...In 2020 many of us were reminded of the joys and wonders of the natural world — if only because we were denied them for much of the year....
...Still, they would do it all again, she says, for the joy of “watching the building come back to life and flourishing”. Not everyone feels the same....
...Sabirah by Deborah Latouche The idea of a modest fashion label had been bubbling in stylist Deborah Latouche’s mind for three years before she began work on a collection last October....
...Pure joy....
...Garnett in particular is passionate about the joys of rootling in a charity bin and has long preached the gospel of thrift....
...I held Deborah Kerr in an embrace in a Spanish sitting room because she needed help rising from her sofa....
...Even joy can be experienced as anguish: the narrator speaks of feeling “lacerated by happiness”....
...The Cost of Living, by Deborah Levy, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£12.99/Bloomsbury, RRP$20 (July) The second volume of memoir from the Man Booker-shortlisted novelist....
...James Salter, Joy Williams, Deborah Eisenberg, Javier Marías, Edward St Aubyn, Bernard MacLaverty, Don DeLillo, Muriel Spark. Where is your favourite place in the world?...
...The awakening of strong feelings for his wife soon proves to be his biggest joy — and burden. As our reviewer put it: “Arudpragasam writes with control, clarity and a terrible beauty.”...
...“One of the joys of this job is there’s so much repertoire, but I was really keen to bring it back now that we have so many great dance actors,” he says....
International Edition