Hints and tips:
...Fiona Shaw reads as ably as you’d expect, especially in her voicing of the relationship between retired spook Elizabeth and her husband Stephen, who has dementia....
...Stollberg-Rilinger, translated by Robert Savage, Princeton University Press £35/$39.95 Ruler of the Habsburg empire from 1740 to 1780, Maria Theresa towers over the history of German-speaking Europe like Elizabeth...
...shared and separate identities, different religious beliefs and distinct historical traditions, this sounded like sage advice from the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, the Most Reverend John McDowell...
...The kitchen is appropriately dedicated to his working partnership with another tastemaker (in the literal sense), the food writer Elizabeth David....
...In flat racing, the Epsom Derby – the most famous of them all – has a purse of £1.325m and the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Royal Ascot pays out £1m to the top handful of racers....
...… The Anatomy of Fashion: Why We Dress the Way We Do by Colin McDowell, Phaidon, £59.95 (published October 2) The human body is at the heart of McDowell’s ambitious 358-page thesis on fashion, covering...
...The golfers Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell and Darren Clarke are a source of nonsectarian pride....
...At the weekend Mr McGuinness indicated that if elected, he would be prepared to meet all heads of state as president, including Queen Elizabeth II....
...On Friday, Queen Elizabeth Hall presented a double bill of modernist veterans....
...The final £3m was given to Elizabeth Stribling, a veteran of the New York property market....
...Lesley McDowell is the author of ‘Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th-Century Women Writers’ (Duckworth)...
...Kathryn McDowell, MD, London Symphony Orchestra. Christopher Morahan, stage director. Sandy Nairne, director, National Portrait Gallery. Bill Parfitt, chairman and CEO, General Motors UK....
...Lesley McDowell is the author of ‘Between the Sheets: The Famous Literary Liaisons of Nine Twentieth-Century Women Writers’ (Duckworth)...
...chasers”: Martha Gellhorn pursuing Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Smart after George Barker, and Sylvia Plath, who married Ted Hughes....
...chuckles Lady Elizabeth Foster. With this writing, milady, it’s in the bag....
...Hot Vultures 3, an English country blues band, opened the show with “Please Write Me a Few of Your Lines” from the Mississippi singer Fred McDowell, whom Collins had recorded on that 1959 field trip....
...For all the shortcomings of its clunky, stubbornly anachronistic dialogue, the first instalment of the Elizabeth saga packed a real punch....
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