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...Grace Jones’s twist on Astor Piazzolla’s “Libertango (I’ve Seen That Face Before)” and Édith Piaf’s remake of Ángel Cabral’s “Que Nadie Sepa Mi Sufrir” as “La Foule” show off Nah’s immaculate French, learned...
...As Longstaffe-Gowan notes, it was bought in the 1970s by George Harrison, the Beatle, but he forebears to add that his widow, Olivia Harrison, takes a keen interest in its planting and especially in its...
...Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, edited by Martin Harrison, Heni Publishing, RRP£1,000/ The Estate of Francis Bacon, RRP$1,500 Art book of the year, perhaps the decade, this showcases for the first time...
...At Hawthorn Time, by Melissa Harrison, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99 Set in a present-day English village, Harrison’s second novel is a striking hybrid, combining clear-eyed nature writing with an absorbing tale...
...David Hockney: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-Life, edited by Tim Barringer and Edith Devaney, Royal Academy, RRP£30/$45 Cool, funny, opinionated, this engaging volume accompanies Hockney’s current show at the...
...Melissa Harrison Author of At Hawthorn Time , shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award Sometimes a writer at the peak of their powers expands what literature is able to achieve, and this was the case...
...When the play opens she is burrowing into Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, whose heroine, Lily Bart, speaks to her sense of jumbled unhappiness....
...Also in Montmartre are the much-photographed steps of Rue Drevet, which feature in the Edith Piaf biopic La Vie en Rose (2007)....
...It was in line with biopic tradition and almost indistinguishable from the late-filmed Edith Piaf’s....
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