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...Flocks of storks, cranes and egrets take to the air. A monitor lizard two yards long wriggles away into the undergrowth. Two hippos duck beneath the liquid brown silt of an ox-bowed river channel....
...The first downward shift was in 1989, when I quit my job, climbed into my little brown Mini and drove all the way from London to Ibiza....
...At Chutney Mary, an upscale Indian restaurant on St James’s Street, it is made with a cube of brown sugar....
...These histories have been meticulously reconstructed by cooks like Edna Lewis in the 1970s and scholars like Dr Jessica B Harris today. But there’s a lot we’ll never know....
...Eleven is also making horror series Red Rose for the BBC and White Stork, a political thriller starring Tom Hiddleston, for Netflix....
...Alec Russell describes meeting the 89-year-old Irish novelist Edna O'Brien. Jo Ellison explains why Karl Lagerfeld's death marked the end of an era in fashion....
...The first time I ever presented a West End audience with the character of Dame Edna — at that time Mrs Norman Everage of Moonee Ponds, Melbourne — was in 1968 at the Fortune Theatre....
...And at clubs with names like Toots Shor’s, El Morocco and the Stork, Vivian and Celia indulge their appetites for anarchic dancing, cocktails and men: “Never was it difficult to find men.”...
...African skimmers patrolled a shore where stints, stilts, godwits, plovers and storks were feeding....
...Of Dame Edna Everage or Sir Les Patterson there is no sign, and even in propria persona the Australian humorist restricts himself to the occasional wry anecdote amid his introductions and explanations....
...Our helicopter flew low over the brown, dusty suburbs of Maun and then over the parched scrub beyond, heading north. “There it is,” said the pilot, pointing down to a fence running from east to west....
...In Columbus, Ohio, Elizabeth Brown, a city councillor, helped lead the passage of a paid family leave package after giving birth to her first child....
...Every stump and pole is topped with the scarecrow’s wig of a stork’s nest. Exhausted swallows, just back from Africa, squat in droves along the causeway....
...The first is about his mother, Edna, written in 1986, five years after her death. “I just missed her,” he says....
...A 1781 study of a stork by Shaykh Zayn al-Din, commissioned by Lady Mary Impey in Calcutta, sold for £200,000 (£245,000 with fees, est £60,000-£80,000)....
...But Edna O’Brien, taking Karadzic’s disguise as her starting point, has created a memorable work of art for our unsettled times....
...Capability Brown and His Landscape Gardens, by Sarah Rutherford, National Trust, RRP£20 A plethora of Capability Brown books is being published for the tercentenary of Brown’s birth....
...Now is surely not the time to render storks’ most important activity indescribable. Leonard Bazar London NW11, UK...
...A portly, saturnine figure clad in a double-breasted suit, cigar held aloft, he moved eagerly through the throng, flattering each guest with the intensity of his interest while his large brown eyes flickered...
...A God in Ruins, by Kate Atkinson, Doubleday, RRP£20/Little, Brown, RRP$28 In her 2013 novel Life After Life, Atkinson followed one woman through multiple possible lives....
...I have often protested that “delivering” should only apply to something that can be put in a van and carried to your door by a chap in a brown coat, but no one has taken any notice....
...The Little Red Chairs, by Edna O’Brien, Faber, RRP£18.99 Inspired by Radovan Karadzic’s disguise while on the run, The Little Red Chairs starts with the arrival of a bearded stranger, “Dr Vladimir Dragan...
...His emergency contact, stamped on his dog tags, was Edna Woolman Chase, Vogue’s editor-in-chief. Nor did he fade out as he aged....
...Amid that stream of exiles were Ireland’s greatest artists and writers, figures such as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Edna O’Brien, refugees from the suffocating social prohibitions of the new nationalist...
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