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...The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, Hamish Hamilton £18.99, 656 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...One more thing I have ditched Netflix and have been going to bed early to read an exceptional book: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray....
...There was his grandfather who harvested honey oblivious to bee stings. There were the crocodiles that snatched his cows as they drank....
...Climate concern doesn’t tally with the findings of Knight Frank’s Ski Property Report 2023....
...Other works are by notable living Dutch artists, among them Philip Akkerman, Frank Van den Broeck, Jacqueline de Jong and Emo Verkerk....
...Beyond were yellow and purple-hooded flowers of special Roscoeas, including rare Roscoea wardii, found in the wild by legendary botanist Frank Kingdon-Ward....
...An entire Frank Lloyd Wright house. Admission is free, I discover, thanks to a $20mn donation from Walmart....
...“America was the ultimate dream,” says Maurice Gibb, always the most measured member of the Bee Gees, halfway through Frank Marshall’s new documentary on the group....
...I also like Spelling Bee. When it comes up on my phone how much time I’ve spent on Spelling Bee at the end of the week, I realise this is what I’ve been doing....
...When the resort opens in 2022, residents will not only be able to play golf, but to hike, bike and bee-keep....
...The tiles’ colour variations, from yellow to gold to rich brown, are a natural result of the flower-foraging preferences of different bee colonies....
...Measured by number of neurons, even the most sophisticated AI is barely as bright as a bee, he told me....
...One Christmas Eve a Russian client phoned her to ask if she could remove a bumble bee from their bedroom....
...In that first book, she wrote as if to a lover, to whom she could be free and frank. There’s also an air of trying to impress us with her precocious wit....
...Who Knight Frank, tel: +44 117 317 1999 Cortina D’Ampezzo, Belluno, Veneto, Italy, €16m Where In the ski town of Cortina D’Ampezzo, in the Dolomites mountain range of the Southern Alps....
...A stunning affair assembled from ribbons of golden steel, the building flows through space like an extraterrestrial bumble bee. Curves are regarded as Arad’s signature....
...With others I have a more Ant and Bee persona....
...For instance, he recounts how Brazil has 250 species of honey-producing bee. Yet under local law, only honey from the conventional bee introduced from Europe is legal....
...Sometimes, at low moments I suppose, she asked us to sing her, “You are the honey-honeysuckle, I am the bee.” And why not? Eeeugh! The children shiver deliciously....
...In an interview before MF Global’s recent troubles, which can bee seen below, Mr Corzine did admit to the need for a “clean-up”. “We bought a lot of franchises. A lot of them were troubled....
...David Hockney, Tracey Emin and Frank Auerbach have donated works to the cause, and Jake and Dinos Chapman have chipped in with the offer of executing a portrait for the winning bidder....
...What April and Frank cannot do, Kate and Sam can....
...In the 20th century, Frank Lloyd Wright used another bee-inspired concept to build the 1937 Hanna House based on interlocking hexagonal honeycomb shapes and clinging to a hillside in Palo Alto, California...
...While the rest of America was making a bee-line for the couch, traders and investors looked about as relaxed as the hero in a Woody Allen movie. I don’t blame them....
...Rumoured to have bought a house close to Bishopscourt is former Bee Gee Robin Gibb, who was brought up on the island....
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