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...The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Canongate)Eleven years after The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng is back with a fictionalised account of William Somerset Maugham’s visit to Penang in 1921....
...Thankfully, if you wish to delve deeper you have Robert McCrum to guide you....
...Arjan Dijk , vice-president of marketing, Google 23 Cindy Armine-Klein , executive vice-president and chief control officer, First Data Corporation 24 Gerry Stone , managing director, Bank of America 25 Robert...
...(Ben Casselman, citing Scott Stern and Jorge Guzman) —— 4....
...Of particular interest are 40 Cocteau drawings for his 1929 essay L’Opium (est. CHF40,000-CHF60,000)....
...Paul Draper of Ridge Vineyards in California; Denis Dubourdieu, Dany Rolland and Stéphane Derenoncourt of Bordeaux; Peter Sisseck and Alvaro Palacios, who make Spain’s most expensive wines, Pingus and L’...
...Vieilles Vignes 2004 Chambolle-Musigny £19.85 Domaine Direct of London N1Lovely mature, sensuous Chambolle nose, heady and truffley, and beautiful delicacy on the palate. 13% Dom Robert Arnoux 2005 Nuits...
...In the excellent Metropolitan catalogue (Yale University Press £40), Robert Hughes suggests that the cascading towers of the Sagrada Familia look as if they were made of “candle wax and chicken guts”....
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