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...She hopes the new policy stance will embolden her local council, Solihull, to reject a 450-house development in the greenbelt on the edge of the village of Dickens Heath....
...February 15 to September 1; further information and tickets here ‘Burtynsky: Extraction/Abstraction’, Saatchi Gallery The biggest show to date of the work of Canadian photographer and artist Edward Burtynsky...
...Hosting a party, or appointing a serial groper called Pincher (Dickens would have blanched at that one), doesn’t quite compare to an attempted coup by an almost-fascist defeated president, they say....
...London’s Old Masters season falls in December and Moretti Fine Art will mount an exhibition dedicated to a recently rediscovered Johan Zoffany portrait of the comic actor Edward Townsend in full song, on...
...Demon Copperheadby Barbara Kingsolver, Faber £20/Harper $32.50 Barbara Kingsolver’s updating of David Copperfield — Dickens’ most autobiographical novel — relocates the action to Appalachia to tell the...
...While following his father George V’s coffin in procession, Edward VIII recalled seeing “a flash of light dancing along the pavement”....
...One longs for the bite that Edward St Aubyn brought to the subject in his 2014 novel Lost for Words. Likewise, several of Greer’s stylistic tics are laboured....
...One of Edward VII’s first acts as King was to suggest that Cartier open a London branch....
...The Dickens Boy follows the life of the author’s youngest son Edward, known as “Plorn”, who emigrated to Australia in 1868 at the age of 16....
...I am a big fan of traditional and natural decorations, but it can’t all be Dickens and roast goose. I always require a healthy dose of Christmas kitsch....
...asks Uriah Heep in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, alluding to his premature announcement of his plan to marry Agnes. We probably all have. Pears are a paradoxical fruit....
...Yet even in the darkest of Dickens novels, no family comes across quite as mendacious, grasping and avaricious as the Trumps. At times the reader will feel sorry for the young Donald....
...To paraphrase Dickens, just like Mr Pickwick we too can enjoy a walk about this pleasant neighbourhood on a fine day....
...After several trials, Rushton built a 10.5lb boat – the Sairy Gamp, named for a Dickens drunk who never took water....
...Edward Luce responds It’s funny you mention Mistry’s A Fine Balance....
...Many of the most prominent writers, including Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton and Oscar Wilde, wrote treatises and magazine articles on the importance of good design in the home....
...Her 1827 novel Northwood did for Thanksgiving what Dickens would do for the English Christmas: set a mouth-watering table on the page....
...Charles Dickens, ever the satirist, christened a particularly unpleasant one “Krook” in his 1852 novel Bleak House. We have moved on since the Victorian era....
...It’s all Greek Luke Edward Hall is back with advice for a reader who wants to keep that Santorini holiday vibe all year round. Luke has found just the thing(s)....
...“I love the period architecture, the atmospheric pubs and the huge, wild expanse of the Heath,” says Edward Jones, who has been here since 1980....
...Trey Edward Shults’s third film Waves comes to Canada after premiering at Telluride....
...But at school, there was no Dickens at all....
...Like Dickens, comment comes wrapped in high drama. “I can write a good sermon,” Bennett says, “but I know the real task is to tell a great story. With Top Boy I want you to turn the page....
...Psycho; Edward Hopper (“House by a Railroad”) 39....
...The Charles Dickens Museum’s lovely but tiny show Charles Dickens: Man of Science is greatly expanded by tours-in-character, actorly recitations of famous mysteries and an authentic magic lantern show....
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