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...On The Necessity Of Gardening – An ABC Of Art, Botany And Cultivation A is for Algae, E is for Eden, R is for rooted… this ABC of botany and cultivation tells the social, cultural and political history...
...It was somehow more polite in a restaurant to whisper a minatory “E-N-T” than to make the possibly audible observation “English Next Table”....
...Edna O’Brien gestures to her face, as though it were covered in wounds. In fact, the Irish novelist has lineless skin and hair the colour of a fox’s pelt....
...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)....
...Juan Carlos Sánchez Gálvez, the hotel manager, began by whisking us through a door from the hotel reception to a marble tombstone....
...Four Children and It , by Jacqueline Wilson, Puffin, RRP£12.99 Both tribute and sequel to E Nesbit’s 1902 classic Five Children And It, revisiting that novel’s wish-granting sand-fairy in the present day...
...It had been alleged that after drinking several bottles of stout, his hand had caressed the thigh of Edna Clunge, a rivet design engineer in his department....
...To enter the competition, simply send your answers in a letter, e-mail or fax to: Christmas Quiz, The Financial Times Limited, Number One Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HL or e-mail quiz04@ft.com or fax to...
...You have to understand E numbers, the science laboratory names given to some ingredients, and get your head round some logic-defying rules....
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