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ReviewArts
Ghost Story podcast review — addictive tale of murder and haunting
...I hesitate to reveal more, though I can tell you that there is a spy subplot and a cameo from the crime writer Dorothy L Sayers....
October 30, 2023
ReviewTravel books
Steeple Chasing by Peter Ross — tales of a church-crawler
...Touring East Anglia, Ross inspects the roof angels of St Peter’s Upwell, the Fenland church on which Dorothy L Sayers drew for her tantalising 1934 mystery novel of bell-ringers and bigamy, The Nine Tailors...
May 12, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
OutlookSimon Kuper
Fay Weldon’s death is a reminder of advertising’s golden age
...The future detective novelist Dorothy L Sayers, as a copywriter in London from 1922 until 1931, created the undying Guinness ad starring a toucan: “If he can say as you can / Guinness is good for you / How...
January 9, 2023
ReviewCrime books
Genre round-up — the best new crime thrillers
...Finally, aspirant crime writers will relish the tips in Howdunit, edited by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins, £14.99); everyone from Dorothy L Sayers to current crime writers are on hand to inspire those hoping...
June 13, 2022
ReviewCrime books
How to Solve a Crime by Dr Angela Gallop — a forensic eye for detail
...In Dorothy L Sayers’ The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928), Lord Peter Wimsey recruits a chemist acquaintance of his to test a paint sample for poison....
February 24, 2022
ReviewFiction
Second Place by Rachel Cusk — what price freedom?
...Cusk’s L is accompanied not by Frieda but by a young, self-absorbed woman named Brett (when the Lawrences went to Taos in 1925 for the second time they brought with them Dorothy Brett, the naive daughter...
April 22, 2021
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
News in-depthASOS PLC
Asos and Boohoo rip up centuries of British retail heritage
...Online fashion rival, Boohoo, whose chief executive John Lyttle was once in charge of buying at Arcadia, is likely to acquire Topshop stablemates Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis....
February 7, 2021
Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
Will writing: a case of whodunnit or haven’t done it yet?
...L Sayers’ Unnatural Death and Christie’s Peril at End House for two gripping examples)....
January 7, 2021
ReviewTheatre
Top 10 family theatre shows to watch at home with younger viewers
...Now the team tackles The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum’s famous tale of Dorothy, a young Kansas girl who has her life turned upside down (a situation with which we can all sympathise)....
December 17, 2020
ReviewNon-Fiction
Mutual Admiration Society — Dorothy L Sayers and her rule-breaking friends
...Headed by Dorothy L Sayers — who would go on to become the renowned crime writer and creator of the beloved aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey — they called themselves the Mutual Admiration Society (MAS...
November 29, 2019
HTSI
Inside Isabel Ettedgui’s 15th-century ‘playground’
...L Sayers and Agatha Christie novels....
November 6, 2020
FT MagazineJan Dalley
Jan Dalley’s fantasy dinner party
...And is he going to like the writer Dorothy Parker, now tripping down the steep path in her equally silly shoes?...
June 6, 2020
ReviewBiography and memoir
Square Haunting by Francesca Wade — women who defied prejudice
...Dorothy L Sayers, the crime novelist, was there for a year, Woolf for less than a year and Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar and translator, for two years....
January 10, 2020
ReviewBooks
2020 visions: the year ahead in books
...L Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, historian Eileen Power and — who could avoid her?...
January 3, 2020
FT SeriesHouse & Home Masterclasses
Luke Edward Hall gives a masterclass in maximalism
...He loves things that are imitations of great design, he says, or that turn it on its head through illusion, like trompe-l’œil, which gives the appearance of a third dimension where none exists....
February 22, 2019
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
FT SeriesFeminism in the 21st century
Sex and the art of radical feminism
...Cheekily titled Sex Work: Feminist Art & Radical Politics, the project celebrates the daring provocations of Tompkins, Bernstein, Slinger and Natalia LL, as well as Renate Bertlmann, Mary Beth Edelson, Dorothy...
September 29, 2017
Nilanjana Roy
Diamonds are forever
...L Sayers, who wrote in her 1944 foreword: “The Moonstone is impeccable . . ....
January 12, 2018
Life & Arts
Brick by brick: in search of Kenya’s colonial heritage
...Designed in an “L” shape with the front door in the interior corner, it had stone foundations and was made of hardy cedar wood with a wooden shingle roof....
May 25, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
Conclave by Robert Harris review — holy smoke
...The suspects gather in an enclosed space — Agatha Christie’s Orient Express, Dorothy L Sayers’ Bellona Club, or even JK Rowling’s Hogwarts. They cannot wander out or establish their alibis....
October 7, 2016
Life & Arts
Profile: American painter Alexis Rockman
...Aided by the acrylic polymer, he has gone on to use the process from South Africa to the East End of Long Island, where he and his partner of 15 years, Dorothy Spears, rent a weekend house....
April 29, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
‘The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918’, by DJ Taylor
...Dorothy Sayers, for example, always anxious about being labelled middlebrow by snobbish critics, mocks this world in detective novels such as Strong Poison (1930) and Gaudy Night (1935)....
January 8, 2016
Recruitment
Diversity champions: UPstanding’s top 100 ethnic-minority executives
...Dorothy Burwell Partner and head of natural resources, Finsbury 100....
May 26, 2016
Life & Arts
Philomene Magers and Monika Sprüth: expanding to stay small
...A year later, L&M Arts Los Angeles closed as well, leaving Sprüth Magers’ artists Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer in the same position....
February 19, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
‘The Yellow Diamond’, by Andrew Martin
...A generalist who sniffs around society haunts can dig up intriguing clues, as Dorothy L Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot demonstrated....
December 4, 2015
Observations
Jonathan Meades: kitchen-sink dreamer
...When, after quarter of a century’s research, Dorothy Hartley published Food In England in 1954 it was already an historical document, something from a distant era, like cars with mudguards....
April 4, 2014

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