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...After a virtual consultation, The Seam connects users with local dressmakers and tailors, with prices starting from £3 and most services completed within 10 days. theseam.uk Jessica Salter Rixo, London...
...Howard Byrom, who runs Society Antiques and Decorative out of a disused Methodist chapel in Morecombe, north Lancashire, has also used social media to his advantage....
...Do include at least one writers’ writer — I suggest James Salter or Iris Murdoch — as these indicate insider status to other literary initiates....
...It used to be a motel called the Howard Johnson.”...
...All That Is , by James Salter, Picador, RRP£18.99/Knopf, RRP$26.95 The first Salter novel for more than 30 years is a rare treat for fans of his distinctive prose....
...All That Is, by James Salter, Picador, RRP£18.99, 304 pages The celebrated American writer James Salter is now 88, and his first new novel in more than 30 years is a big event....
...(The novel’s influence on Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question is unmissable.) Like Catch-22, the novel subsists on one joke....
...The passage continues: “Mr Salter smiled; to him, it was as though an Arctic explorer had expressed a fear that the weather might turn cold. ‘Nothing to what you are used to in the country,’ he said....
...Town centre manager Chris Howard emphasises its prosperity: “HSBC bank has recently opened a branch in North Street, investing over £3m,” he explains....
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