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...One of the great students of Ireland’s native plants was Evelyn Booth, who published her fine Flora of County Carlow in 1979....
...Endo at the Rotunda (White City) eighth Floor, The Helios, Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London W12 7FR Good for: An elegant Japanese omakase from a sparky, highly respected sushi master Not so good...
...It’s just off Rayners Lane, in a classic interwar maze of bay-windowed Tudorbethan semis....
...In 1683, the diarist John Evelyn visited and described how Child was planting walnut trees and making fishponds “many miles in circuit in Epping Forest, in a barren spot.”...
...Why English satirical novelist and biographer Evelyn Waugh bought this house in 1956, 10 years before his death, and his family lived there until 2008....
...Sign up here with one click In Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, the Catholic Lady Marchmain has one of her “little talks” with the narrator Charles Ryder....
...Yet MN Roy, the Indian communist, and his American-born wife Evelyn Trent dined in the finest restaurants and stayed in luxury hotels....
...Tourists come to enjoy the Pennine scenery, a local gastropub called the Butchers’ Arms and walking the narrow lanes among the former weavers’ cottages....
...In theory, driverless cars remove human error, so cities can have narrower lanes, and fewer signs and markings — no more analogue inscriptions....
...“I doubt it,” says Evelyn Glennie, switching on her metal detector....
...Bonjour, I am Evelyn. Au contraire, Evelyn eez moi but he always call me “Snookie”. “Snookie”? Comme eez first wife? Sacré bleu! I was très certaine you were ze first wife....
...Had Steven Runciman not actually lived, someone, perhaps Evelyn Waugh, would have invented him....
...The patent evidence of his rigorous and far-reaching scholarship is often lightened with journalistic flourishes, such as his comparison of a riotous student gang in Carthage with the capers of Evelyn Waugh...
...The 202ft-tall Monument — which stands 202ft from the site of the bakery in Pudding Lane where the Great Fire of London was sparked off 350 years ago — is one of the strangest and most enduring markers in...
...DH Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell all lived here and current residents include John le Carré and the playwright David Hare....
..., by Nick Lane, Profile, RRP£25 Biochemist Lane offers a scintillating synthesis of a new theory of life, emphasising the interplay between energy and evolution....
...I last saw Nelson at his Houghton home a week or so before he was admitted to hospital last month and we strolled down memory lane as we often do. But he asked some questions that saddened me....
...However, they also laid out a magnificent “rock” garden at Madresfield Court for Lord Beauchamp, the family that inspired Evelyn Waugh’s top-drawer fiction, Brideshead Revisited....
...The main thoroughfare, Hatton Street, was first mentioned in 1659 by diarist John Evelyn, who records the residential development of gardens that had once been part of a vast, profitable estate belonging...
...He even signed some of his pseudo-boulders, one of which stands at Madresfield Court, later the inspiration for Brideshead house in Evelyn Waugh’s great novel....
...Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 608 pages Malcolm Little, better known to Americans in the late 1950s and 1960s as Malcolm X, was a charismatic public figure....
...“Only a Catholic”, Evelyn Waugh said, could understand The Heart of the Matter. It would be a pity to be excommunicated from the full meanings of Greene’s fiction....
...Evelyn Waugh packed a copy in his suitcase when he took what was to prove a marriage-breaking cruise with his wife....
...“How Mlle Evelyn would have laughed,” Juniper slyly comments....
...Robin Lane Fox is Reader in Ancient History at Oxford University....
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