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...A Very Private School: A Memoir by Charles Spencer William Collins £25, 304 pages Henry Mance is the FT’s chief features writer Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café and subscribe to...
...Step up Henry’s Bar at the Botanic Sanctuary, a stunning new hotel that backs onto the city’s small, perfect botanic garden. Henry’s Bar has become something of a watering hole of choice....
...Also, Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin is published by William Collins....
...Amazingly, that core romantic concept feels comparatively realistic, given that earlier in the story everyone is implausibly fretting about the diplomatic and trade repercussions of Prince Henry (Nicholas...
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...and Giroux) Carlisle’s magisterial biography explores the many facets of George Eliot’s radical life and work, examining her loving and supportive relationship with her already married partner George Henry...
...The British-Caribbean designer Mac Collins has made a sculpture, while the pavilion’s film features a pub in his hometown, Nottingham, centring on dominoes, a popular game in the British-Caribbean community...
...The lord chancellor is said to have served the dish in a bid to impress Henry VIII, who later had him arrested for treason....
...His will mentions his associates John Heminges and Henry Condell, and the actor Richard Burbage, the great interpreter of Shakespearean roles....
...It wouldn’t have happened in Henry VIII’s day. However, the Carolean accession of 2023 must reckon with the diminished tools of command at modern royalty’s disposal....
...The darker elements of the story are played down, except when Michael Mayes cuts through the sweetness as George’s nemesis, Henry F Potter....
...“Just as he was about to leave, he told me that the boat house was where Sir Henry Segrave’s 1000 horsepower Sunbeam speed record car was built during the 1920s....
...Having refused to be crowned king, Cromwell’s decision to anoint his eldest but naive son Richard over the younger, more capable Henry alienated both parliament and the army....
...These two books are tangentially linked through the destruction of Henry Wilson’s familial home at Currygrane House, but they are also connected at a deeper level....
...It was a collaboration with the garden designer Angela Collins. “That was a difficult assignment,” says Collins....
...To celebrate this illustrious literary heritage, Henry’s husband-and-wife owners Steven and Jane Collins have lovingly restored the house to its Regency heyday — or, as he puts its, “Bridgerton’d it up”,...
...Henry Mance is the FT’s chief features writer....
...The former Procter & Gamble executive could almost be missed next to Lily Collins and Henry Golding as caviar and mini lobster rolls were passed around....
...Michael Collins (Catholic)....
...Bebito’s is a modern take for the next generation FYI: Some exciting names in Miami’s food world are behind Bebito’s: pastry chef Dallas Wynne (previously at the excellent Stubborn Seed) and chef Henry...
...(Susan Collins of Maine has said she plans to be a rare, and possibly the only, exception to the party-line vote.)...
...Barker — the “Dave” in Dave & Ansell Collins — had flown from Jamaica to do Top of the Pops with keyboardist Collins and their backing band....
...Now the Collins Avenue landmark is fresh off a total reimagination by the ultra-high-end hospitality consultants Apicii, with design by two alumnae of YOO Design Studio, and once again positioning itself...
...The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillionsby Chuck Collins, Polity £50/€56.50 In this fascinating book, Collins, a man who gave an inherited fortune away, describes in detail the...
...henry.mance@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Why tax billionaires when you can just say thank you / From Naresh K Fernando, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK...
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