Hints and tips:
...If you’re in the market for something to take on short trips, I’d take a look at its Pullman Holdall, the design of which I’ve been a fan of for a long time: an elegant shape, finished with very lovely brass...
...Two centuries later comes another tightly composed, fantastical nocturne: Chris Wormell’s canoe surging dark waves, the cover illustration for Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust (2017)....
...The breakfast room has feathers in its coving, in tribute to her affair with Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales. Belmond has done its best to leave traces of Wilde, too....
...Yet he gives more weight to living in Hillarys, a far-flung coastal suburb of Perth — “not quite as bland as the pastel suburbia of Edward Scissorhands but not too far from it either”....
...Some Pullmans decorated with inlaid mahogany and silvered fittings in a delightful Adam style recall good King Edward VII.”...
...Trip Pullman directs an all-female cast (Claire Forlani, Ronke Adekoluejo, Isabella Calthorpe, Charlotte Parry, Patricia Potter and Alice Sanders)....
...They looked rather a job lot, not altogether matching one another, but my plush armchair seat in the Pullman, next to the engine, turned out to remind me of the Orient Express; and sure enough, presently...
...Contrary to much press speculation, it was never supposed to, explains its builder at Richmond, Mark Edwards....
...Junot Díaz’s top 10 books: Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor by Tom Athanasiou; Family Installments: Memories of Growing Up Hispanic by Edward Rivera; From Protest to Challenge: A Documentary...
...Grimm Tales , by Philip Pullman, Penguin, RRP£20 The His Dark Materials author retells 50 of the Grimm brothers’ stories, some familiar, others not....
...Auggie Pullman has led a sheltered life in his Manhattan neighbourhood, where his severe facial disfigurement provokes only kindness....
...Day and Lost Highway and on Broadway in Edward Albee’s The Goat....
...The Zoo Story, Edward Albee’s first play, seems stuck in the late-Eisenhower era: its main character, Peter, smokes a pipe, wears a cardigan, and probably knows more about Perry Como than Elvis Presley....
...This is a collection of essays from luminaries including Steven Pinker and Philip Pullman that shines new light on many of the hares the brilliant Oxford zoologist has set running....
...“Edward Scissorhands”, Sadler’s Wells, London, to February 5....
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