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...It reads: “The Sheet OFF MY dear x dear Lord’s Bed in the wretched Tower of London February 1716. Ann C of Darwent=Waters.”...
...In the troubling prologue, Lucky Emory (Deborah Ayorinde) tends to her baby son in their farmhouse in North Carolina when she is visited by a mean old white lady crooning the song “Old Black Joe”....
...The writer is an FT contributing columnist “Dear Asian adoptee, I’m not sure about you but I’ve been feeling this overwhelming sense of confusion....
...Also in non-fiction comes Deborah Orr’s Motherwell: A Girlhood, read by Gabriel Quigley....
...Oh dear I’m catching the style. The film is not quite Mills & Boon. Fiona Shaw, no moonstruck sentimentalist, wrote the source novel....
...Biography/Memoir Dear Life by Rachel Clarke (Little, Brown RRP£16.99, January) joins a distinguished list of memoirs by healthcare professionals....
...But nevertheless, a cure remains something that, I think, very dear to many people, in terms of ambition. But it's clearly a tough and not happening anytime soon....
...Today we see the legacy of Quin’s prose in that of writers from Kathy Acker, through Deborah Levy, and Joanna Walsh, their championing of her work perhaps one of the reasons for the appearance of this volume...
...Perhaps, conversely, it’s that our personal concerns are (rightly or wrongly) no less dear to us than planetary matters....
...Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism, by Jeff Gramm, HarperCollins, RRP£20/$29.99 A book on US corporate governance built round a series of letters from shareholders to...
...Dear Life , by Alice Munro, Chatto & Windus, RRP£18.99 One of the world’s greatest living writers releases a collection of stories at the height of her powers....
...Oh dear. It has not been a good day for shareholders of Punch Taverns....
...Joe Dear, council chairman who is also chief investment officer of Calpers, said: “The credit debacle represents a massive failure of oversight – by boards as well as by regulation…Investors must have the...
...No, dear reader, I was so busy talking I barely looked at what was on my plate and so ate it. I do recall it was delicious, but that’s hardly an excuse....
...Deborah JoelIndia I have always been a Londoner and a proud one at that....
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