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...On a story about Timothy Leary, the pair stayed in his compound on a rural New York estate....
...Supreme Court ruled to end the separation of students by race in the landmark Brown v Board of Education case in 1954....
...Capability Brown and His Landscape Gardens, by Sarah Rutherford, National Trust, RRP£20 A plethora of Capability Brown books is being published for the tercentenary of Brown’s birth....
...May Imagine Me Gone, by Adam Haslett, Little, Brown, RRP$26 / Viking, RRP£16.99 (June) A second novel by the author of Union Atlantic (2009) examines the sacrifices we make for love....
...CBE Head of Investment, Woodford Investment Management Matt Regan General Manager, AbbVie Alan Hirzel Chief Executive, Abcam Timothy J Haines Managing Partner, Abingworth Mark Algar Co-Founder...
...Antony Beevor Author of Ardennes 1944: Hitler’s Last Gamble In Black Earth , Timothy Snyder forces us to look afresh at the greatest crimes of the 20th century....
...Going back to Dylan Thomas last month around the time of the centenary of his birth, I was grateful for the reintroduction; however arbitrary the reason, I am richer for it....
...History (Little, Brown) by Richard J Evans....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Uncollected Poems, by RS Thomas, Bloodaxe RRP£9.95, 176 pages The centenary of Thomas’s birth affords an opportunity to rediscover one of Wales’s greatest poets....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...Further interest The Historic Houses Association, www.hha.org.uk The National Trust (Wimpole Hall, Berrington Hall, Petworth et al), www.nationaltrust.org.uk English Heritage, www.english-heritage.org.uk...
...Read her review of Thomas Lawrence at the National Portrait Gallery ‘RSTW’ [Rauschenberg, Serra, Twombly, Warhol and Wool], an exhibition from Gagosian’s private collection, Menarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi...
...Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life, by Nicholas Phillipson, Allen Lane RRP£25 Adam Smith is not the easiest of biographical subjects....
...Nick Hornby et al followed. Davies deserves this reissue under a new title....
...Wolf Hall By Hilary Mantel Fourth Estate, £18.99 This year’s Man Booker Prize-winner is a convincing portrayal of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s chief minister....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? It’s all here....
...The British prime minister Gordon Brown had sought to give a similar impression, claiming authorship of the policy of bank recapitalisation....
...The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization By Thomas Homer-Dixon Souvenir £15, 448 pages FT bookshop price: £12 The Canadian political scientist Thomas Homer-Dixon takes...
...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
...Again, Hugenholtz et al, point out that the majority of cases brought under the Directive have been about databases that would have been created anyway - telephone numbers, television schedules, concert...
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