Hints and tips:
...The young Manolo grew up reading Enid Blyton, Kipling, Dickens and Wilde. His mother was a fastidious shopper, ordering clothes, magazines and books from abroad....
...Connections like these fuelled the hyperbolic and nefarious depiction of Opus Dei in Dan Brown’s 2003 thriller, The Da Vinci Code, and its subsequent film adaptation....
...My parents’ glamorous friends who lived in London would invite us to afternoon tea, where my mother and I — both of us having grown up on a steady diet of Enid Blyton books — were enthralled by the drama...
...Harvested that morning from Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree, they burst in your mouth and are full of honey....
...In addition to the local oysters, my must-orders are the nutmeg-spiced potted crab and a fat, juicy, skate wing, swimming in brown butter sauce and capers....
...His first wife Enid, with whom he had three children, Ruth, Kate and Michael, died in 2013; he is survived by Tina and their two children, Izzy and Georgie....
...Bake on a tray lined with baking parchment for 20—25 minutes or until crisp and golden brown....
...Enid Marx, who was apprenticed to Barron and Larcher, inherited their flair....
...The wood grill really came into its own, caramelising the surface, which was then dressed with a sauce of butter, cucumber, tiny brown shrimp and dill....
...“There is a Wild West battle for television rights as everyone hunts for intellectual property,” says Geller of Curtis Brown....
...As a graduate of a Catholic high school for girls, I read Miranda Green’s take on the theatrical revival of Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers series of books with great interest....
...Actually, I’m not sure that Enid Blyton wouldn’t have found it a little remote because, unlike those corners of the country that have been colonised by Boden-clad second-homers, Ventnor is defined by the...
...This part of the world isn’t yet as painfully fashionable a holiday destination as neighbouring Norfolk, and has a sort of sleepy “Enid Blyton meets Essex Riviera” vibe....
...I knew nothing about publishing, but through meeting Enid Blyton’s grandson-in-law, we did a deal to buy the rights to 600 of her books, and all the rights to Noddy....
...Where other children read Enid Blyton, among Paisley’s favourites were Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and James A. Wylie’s three-volume History of Protestantism....
...I’ve still got it: Shadow the Sheepdog by Enid Blyton. ‘He Wants’ by Alison Moore is published by Salt...
...Ben Brown, son of a local artist, opened his gallery on the third floor in 2009. Mr Brown, who also has a gallery in London, remembers the building when it was a warren of boutiques....
...In many of them I found a sweet brown ex libris bookplate he had given me, which funnily enough featured a line drawing of a little brown owl. Perhaps he assumed everyone could be wise as he was....
...“If you want a Chris Brown album and it’s not available but you can buy a new Leonard Cohen album cheaper, that’s a fat lot of good. The artists are not interchangeable.”...
...William Brown William Brown, in Richmal Compton’s Just William series (1922-70), is a grubby, feckless, back-of-the-classroom boy but William’s naughtiness is more inadvertent than Horrid Henry’s....
...Additional reporting by Kevin Brown in Singapore and Enid Tsui in Hong Kong...
...They did not own a television until she was 11, so she listened to The Clitheroe Kid on the radio, and read everyone from Enid Blyton to Emily Brontë....
...Looking at the brown Great Ouse, it would be easier to imagine boggarts, sprites and nymphs dancing around it at nightfall than it would swimmers in summer....
...Sandi Toksvig’s latest book is ‘The Chain of Curiosity’ (Little Brown)...
...Hard-boiled eggs have a special status in the books of Enid Blyton....
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