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...He selects stones from a brook and then, a mere boy, he volunteers to King Saul that he will meet Goliath’s challenge to a duel....
...The British-Nigerian entrepreneur Dumi Oburota is best known for his work in music: he launched the careers of artists including Jessie J and Tinie Tempah....
...Making Sense of Chaos by J. Doyne Farmer (Allen Lane, £25) builds on Klaas’ thesis and Göpel’s framework by arguing that economics is in need of a radical update....
...The top layer was made up of white-flowered Crocus biflorus, one which I bought from J Parker’s as Crocus chrysanthus Miss Vain: it is especially good because it has bright orange-yellow stamens in the middle...
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...“J’aime votre chariot!” said a passing cyclist, leaping to my assistance. His grin carried a whiff of sarcasm. “Est-ce lourd?”...
...But such are the natural challenges, such as the salinity of the soil, that Sauls admits it may take another 10 years to establish the vines....
...Peter Heather, Allen Lane £20, 208 pages Linda Colley is a professor of history at Princeton University Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophyby David J Chalmers, Allen Lane £25/WW Norton $32 One of the world’s leading philosophers re-examines all the age-old questions of life through the...
...DeJager, J Parkers and Jacques Amand are suppliers I use. Peter Nyssen has a keenly priced list and Organic Bulbs stock bulbs grown organically. Happy hunting, happy planting....
...For rooting compost, I use J Arthur Bower’s John Innes seed compost at roughly £9.99 per 25-litre bag, and I mix it with about a third of its bulk of perlite....
...BS The Unseen Saul Leiter (Thames & Hudson, £35) When American artist and colour photography pioneer Saul Leiter died in 2013, a foundation was set up to catalogue his archive of 40,000 photographic slides...
...But it also hosts concerts and events, and this October “A-Wing”, where Troubles inmates were housed, will open its doors as a working distillery reviving J&J McConnell’s Irish Whisky, founded in 1776....
...The 2001-03 film series alone has been the subject of lawsuits from the producer Saul Zaentz, the Weinstein brothers, the films’ director Peter Jackson and the estate of Tolkien himself....
...The brilliant Vivian Maier and Saul Leiter found beauty in the banal: a doll in a trash can, the boiled-sweet colours of traffic lights seen through rain drops on a window....
...Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophyby David J Chalmers, Allen Lane £25/WW Norton $32 Tech companies are busily building an alternative virtual reality in the metaverse....
...De Jager, J Parker’s and others now offer them, newish hybrids between nerines and the gawky amaryllis....
...We would often wander up Brick Lane and order a bagel for a mere 9p for the journey home....
...Try the pairing of six Lindisfarne oysters with a cool gin martini (£35) for the full experience. 28-32 St Martin’s Court, WC2; book at j-sheekey.co.uk...
...The Duchess of Gloucester threw him a party, to which he wore Tahitian robes; he went to performances at Drury Lane and Sadler’s Wells; he attended the state opening of Parliament; he visited the north of...
...Suppliers to consult here are J Parker’s and de Jager who offer a Two Tone Mixture, pairing white Clearwater with rosy pink Dreamland....
...A multi-tracked Mary J Blige sings up a storm on “Spinnin’”, whose music is a well-judged mix of ornate orchestration and rhythmic discipline....
...Green J Jam from Worcestershire is showing more than 50 different varieties of those late summer staples, penstemons....
...Also included here are poems including “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” and “Journey of the Magi”, all of which will repay repeated listening....
...Peltz, DD’s Rob Smith recommends this excerpt from Connie Bruck’s seminal 1988 book The Predators’ Ball detailing the billionaire’s alleged risqué Long Island tennis matches with the late corporate raider Saul...
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