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...In her writings on growing up in Virginia, the food writer Edna Lewis observes that peach cobbler was “the great hot fruit dessert of the summer season that everyone looked forward to”....
...I also loved The Anarchy (Bloomsbury, RRP£30), William Dalrymple’s splendid history of the East India Company. A timely tale of corporate greed and brutality....
...For baking recipes, her go-to book is The Taste of Country Cooking; “It’s a wonderful book by Edna Lewis, the granddaughter of a freed slave.” Ptak has written four books, and is working on a fifth....
...He is also married to Serena Williams, arguably the greatest tennis player of all time. Less well-known is his cultural identity: half-Armenian....
...Critics such as William Logan sometimes dismissed her ascents into wonder: “Mary Oliver is the poet laureate of the self-help biz and the human potential movement.”...
...Engrossing, sometimes funny, judicious (especially in Irish politics), with the incidental delights of a range of snippets read by enthusiasts from Edna O’Brien to Sting. Photograph: Corbis...
...In addition to Ms Foreman, the four other judges on this year’s panel are the critic Jon Day, the academic and novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, the poet David Harsent and the actor Olivia Williams....
...Claire Messud Author of ‘The Woman Upstairs’ One of the most powerful and resonant books I’ve read this year is Edna O’Brien’s haunting novel The Little Red Chairs (Faber)....
...— backed by his wife Edna, who died in 2010 — stood firm....
...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...
...The novelist Edna O’Brien’s recent memoir has some blood-curdling passages about her own journey through what appears to have been a very traditional marriage....
...Irish novelist Edna O’Brien opens proceedings in conversation with BBC journalist William Crawley. O’Brien is eloquent and self-deprecating....
...The Trebor story starts in 1907 when William Woodcock, as fine a sugar boiler as London’s East End had to offer, got together with two grocers and a salesman called Sydney Marks....
...I observe great performers like Dame Edna who goes around being nasty to people in order to generate enjoyment. It’s schadenfreude without malice....
...roots were showing ever more clearly through Edna’s mauve hair rinse....
...Country Girl , by Edna O’Brien, Faber, RRP£20 The Irish author of The Country Girls looks back on a spectacular life, from her childhood in Tuamgraney, County Clare; her turbulent marriage to Ernest Gébler...
...“I think Prince William has his mother’s traits. He is very easy with people and very like her.”...
...Others (Elizabeth Bowen, William Trevor, Colm Tóibín, Enright herself) move easily between the two....
...Saints and Sinners, by Edna O’Brien, Faber, RRP£12.99, 250 pages More than 50 years after O’Brien’s debut novel, The Country Girls, her latest short story collection proves her powers of observation and...
...At the height of his popularity, d’Hondecoeter received a commission from stadtholder King William III to paint a series of works for his palaces at Soestdijk and Het Loo, which are included here....
...The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, which helps low-income young people gain access to services and programmes that will improve their lives, has strict demands for accountability from its grantees....
...In spite of a title, and much dialogue, likely to send Aunt Edna into convulsions, Good Dick is the week’s best film....
...It was in the 1990s that Sir Ken suffered personal tragedy when his wife Edna, with whom he had three children, died of cancer....
...It’s like Dame Edna. There’s no double-entendre jokes, no innuendo – we’re all part of the conspiracy....
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