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...https://on.ft.com/3t9tVNT – Critics’ picks: https://on.ft.com/3RyWH3H – For getting past your reader’s block, Laura and Fred recommend Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell and The House of Doors by Tan...
...As well as Slimani, this year’s Booker judging panel included lecturer and translator Uilleam Blacker, novelist Tan Twan Eng, literary critic Parul Sehgal and the FT’s literary editor Frederick Studemann...
...Slimani is joined by a panel of fellow judges including lecturer and translator Uilleam Blacker, novelist Tan Twan Eng, literary critic Parul Sehgal and the FT’s literary editor Frederick Studemann....
...The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Canongate)Eleven years after The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng is back with a fictionalised account of William Somerset Maugham’s visit to Penang in 1921....
...He wears a dark blue linen shirt, Under a cream linen suit, a pair of tan loafers and tortoiseshell glasses....
...The billionaire Barclay brothers and their cash crunch Frederick and David Barclay, the twin brothers who own The Ritz hotel in London and the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, turned 85 on Sunday....
...These include Susie MacMurray’s copper chainmail “Medusa” (2014-15, Pangolin gallery), Gary Hume’s bronze “American Tan VII” (2006-07, New Art Centre) and Zheng Lu’s stainless-steel wave “Water in Dripping...
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...He is also married to the daughter of Nguyen Tan Dung, Vietnam’s Communist prime minister....
...Meghan Shanley (flute), Caitlin Bailey (cello) and Ivan Tan (piano) played it sensitively. They also looked silly wearing the half-masks prescribed by the composer to suggest “nature dehumanised”....
...The Further Tale Of Peter Rabbit, by Emma Thompson, Frederick Warne, RRP£12.99 Actor and screenwriter Thompson turns in a very creditable pastiche starring Beatrix Potter’s best-loved character....
...The same cannot be said of Philippe Mercier, whose 1733 conversation piece depicts Frederick, Prince of Wales and his sisters vigorously involved in “The Music Party”. Or are they?...
...It might not be expected that Mark Morris, a brilliant though very different choreographer from Frederick Ashton, would make any more sense of Sylvia’s plot than Ashton did....
...And they indulge: not only in Chopin, Lizst and modern composers such as Tan Dun or Charles Ives, but also in rap, jazz, funk, blues and Chinese traditional forms....
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