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...I doubt if she ever wore swimsuits, let alone in her eighties on a photo shoot in Costa Rica. And yet . . ....
...“The thing about Gomera,” said our guide, Javier Chirivella Costa, “is that it’s like having an entire continent on a very small island.” And it’s true....
...One of the exceptions in Europe is Portugal’s António Costa — the prime minister hosting the social summit (and occupying the rotating EU presidency)....
...Shackleton picked Milos, the UK outpost of a Montreal restaurant opened in 1979 by Costas Spiliadis, because of her fondness for Clio Georgiadis, the restaurant director....
...“In the past we had to convince people to start their own business,” says Costas Andriopoulos, associate dean for entrepreneurship at London’s Cass Business School....
...Within 12 months, however, it had achieved a completely surprise success before being picked up by John Murray — and then winning both the Costa First Novel Award and Book of the Year at the British Book...
...Police named the other victims as 48-year-old Emma Bowden, Richard Cousins’ fiancée, and her daughter Heather Bowden-Page, aged 11. The 44-year-old pilot also died....
...We strike out from the hotel into a low scrub of heather and juniper giving way to eerie wetlands studded with giant boulders in phantasmagorical forms....
...Within the old-school office shell, there are modern touches: open-plan seating, a Costa Coffee concession, and brightly coloured posters promoting new initiatives — but senior figures recognise that more...
...Tree-heather, initially planted as a windbreak, is slowly and comprehensively evicting the vines; today’s landholders neither need nor relish the hard physical labour of working these un-mechanisable vineyards...
...Bob Costas, his thin grin resembling the terminal expression of a bass on a hook, attempts to put suspense back into the events as if we didn’t already know their outcome....
...The Infatuations, by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99, 352 pages The celebrated Spanish author’s latest novel tells the story of María Dolz, whose interest in...
...The 13 members of the reconstituted body include Margaret Ewing, Sharon Fraser and Heather Hancock....
...The British small publisher enjoyed success last year when Stef Penney’s The Tenderness of Wolves, the first fiction title the publisher produced, took the Costa Book Award....
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