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...Edward Luce responds To be honest Pilita, I’m not yet confident of the long-term impact of the IRA....
...In Mother’s Milk, the greatest of Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels, this sense of home and body as one takes on a more surreal edge....
...In Bristol, the statue of slave trader Edward Colston — which was felled in 2020 — has not been put back up....
...John Sutherland’s Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), a biography of the poet’s lover and muse, has generated keen interest ahead of its publication in April....
...arrival at Faber in 1953, rescued William Golding’s Lord of the Flies from the slush pile after a publisher’s reader had assessed it as “absurd and uninteresting”; and he was to make approaches to Philip Larkin...
...(Philip Larkin 101.) Theory: education, like class, can thwart passion’s spontaneity. Theory: parental warping, malicious or accidental. They f*** you up, your mum and dad. (Philip Larkin 101a.)...
...Edward Booth was a locomotive fireman, rather than a railway firefighter as previously stated....
...Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense, by Jenny Uglow, Faber, RRP£25 There’s more than nonsense to Edward Lear....
...It was last sold for £3,850 to collector Sir Edward Cecil Guinness, but is now expected to fetch more than £25m....
...a little breathy, is always entertaining, brimming with enticing small details, from an image of Roosevelt scrambling eggs at the table in a dinner-party performance piece, to Pym noticing that Philip Larkin...
...Alfred Edward Housman was born in 1859 in Worcestershire, the eldest of seven children of a country solicitor....
...UK & Ireland Dr Simon Kerry Chief Executive, Karus Therapeutics Sandra Currie Chief Executive, Kidney Research UK Dr Paul Colbon Chief Operating Officer and Director, Liverpool ChiroChem Dr Ken Larkin...
...On the right track This month brings anniversaries of two of England’s most-loved poems, Edward Thomas’s Adlestrop (1914) and Philip Larkin’s The Whitsun Weddings (1964), which both involve trains....
...It’s a play about emotional legacy which has a distinguished inheritance of its own, with echoes variously of Edward Albee, Eugene O’Neill and Neil Simon....
...This was a surprise for a world in which sexual intercourse, pace Philip Larkin, had only just begun. But it was only a momentary state of innocence....
...But then Edward Impey, head of heritage protection and planning at English Heritage, pointed out the horizontality of the course of ferricrete on which the barn rises; it hardly seems to have shifted a centimetre...
...The Cock’s current repertoire includes a wicked 20-minute parody of the work of Edward Bond entitled There Will Be More....
...Geraldine Larkin The highlight of this year’s Decorex, the interior design show, will be the launch of Geraldine Larkin’s home collection....
...However John Larkin, the Roman Catholic barrister appointed Northern Ireland’s attorney-general, has already signalled his independence from London in a separate case involving a controversial killing by...
...“When you delivered the copy,” Philip Larkin once wearily recalled, “he would ring you up no matter where you were. I was once hauled out of a conference in Aberystwyth, to go through it, Leavis-wise.”...
...“It really has become almost a prerequisite at newer buildings,” says Stephen Larkin, a Manhattan marketing manager who works with real estate agents ....
...Edward Thomas’s 16-line poem named after the tiny town where his train stopped one late June afternoon captures much about our fascination with the connections between names and places....
...That time is the summer of 1962, a date undoubtedly chosen by Ian McEwan to trigger thoughts of Philip Larkin’s poem ”Annus Mirabilis”, which locates the advent of the sexual revolution precisely: ”Sexual...
...“Like it or not, buyers today put a premium on celebrity,” says Edward Lewis, a London estate agent who focuses on new developments....
...Mother’s Milk by Edward St Aubyn Picador £12.79, 279 pages Reading Edward St Aubyn’s delightfully caustic novel about parental love, Mother’s Milk, it is impossible not to think of Philip Larkin’s most...
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