Hints and tips:
...Wander the British Museum for a while and you’ll come across the Franks Casket, a mysterious eighth-century box made from a stranded whale’s bone....
...Frank Herbert’s Dune, thanks to the recent film versions, continues to ascend in price. (Last autumn, a rare storyboard for Dune sold for £350,000 at Peter Harrington.)...
...Jarvis Cocker sticks very much to the analogue world in Good Pop, Bad Pop (Jonathan Cape, May), in which the Pulp front man rummages around his attic to produce a memoir of a life in music....
...(She’s also planning a Medea in collaboration with novelist Margaret Atwood.) Meanwhile the quiet of lockdown has, for her, been strikingly eventful....
...Carolyn Fairbairn OUTGOING CBI DIRECTOR-GENERAL As a fan of The Handmaid’s Tale, it was with trepidation that I embarked on Margaret Atwood’s sequel, The Testaments, but I was very glad I did....
...In the meantime, I would urge boards to be as frank and open as possible on future dividend policy and caveats....
...In 2004, he was brought in to rescue Jarvis, the sickly support services business. Before that, he was at Costain....
...“The purity of perpetual protest offers only the road to electoral annihilation,” warns Dan Jarvis, another centrist MP....
...Simon Danczuk, MP for Rochdale, said he would try to oust Mr Corbyn to make way for a moderate alternative leader such as Chuka Umunna, Dan Jarvis or Emma Reynolds “to give us some chance of winning the...
...Frank Sinatra will share an evening with Mozart and Stravinsky at this year’s BBC Proms, while Jarvis Cocker will present the follow-on gig after Brahms and Schmidt....
...Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting, by Catherine Lampert, Thames & Hudson, RRP£19.95/RRP$40 Lampert has sat as a model to the reclusive artist for four decades....
...Amplification was good, the children’s choirs sang with gusto, and the conductor, Kristjan Järvi, is evidently a fan of the work, as he has also recorded it....
...Dan Jarvis 20:1 The shadow arts minister is an outside bet for the Labour leadership, having only entered parliament in 2010 after a career as an officer in the Paras....
...Sian Jarvis, director of communications, Department of Health. Bernadette Kelly, former director of housing strategy, Department for Communities and Local Government....
...Designed by Burnham’s colleague Charles Atwood, the 14-storey Reliance Building – now beautifully restored as the Hotel Burnham – must have amazed people when it was completed in 1895....
...It’s from Andrew Shirley, head of property research, at Knight Frank and featured in their regular Wealth Report....
...Paul Jarvis, a chartered surveyor who worked in the Paris office of estate agency Knight Frank for five years, says: “The French sewerage system is rather different in that vents come straight up from the...
...MORAL DISORDER by Margaret Atwood Bloomsbury ₤15.99, 272 pages Mercurial Atwood’s latest offering spins autobiography into vividly narrated snapshots that document family life from the 1930s to the present...
...As Radio 4’s Damazer says: “Some of the people who are now on would, in a previous era, not have been: Tracey Emin, Hugh Masekela, John Cale, Jarvis Cocker....
...Where else might one spot Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt tripping over colossal cobbles while Margaret Atwood fingered dresses and geared up for serious bird-watching?...
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