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...The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing (Picador) A celebration by the acclaimed writer and critic of the abundant pleasures and possibilities of gardens — not as a place to hide from the world but as a...
...Laing is a generous guide, and her appraisals can be insightful....
...“If you were making a big purchase you’d look at it carefully, but this is rarely done with a straight head,” Jan Ives, a former NHS worker, who found care for her mother-in-law Jean who died in October...
...If fashion moves in 20-year cycles (low-rise jeans are, unfortunately, overdue a comeback) then Acker is proof that so too does culture....
...“2017 was an exceptional year, with record high results for Peugeot,” said Jean-Philippe Imparato, Peugeot CEO. Europe provided the brunt of the sales lift, up 23.2 per cent to 2.4m....
...Both extremely talented winemakers, they are bankrolled by well-heeled outsiders — British businessman and sailing enthusiast Ian Laing and Canadian banker Moray Tawse respectively....
...But as Mike Laing observes, “Merchants do make differing margins at differing levels of the hierarchy — leading to disparity in en primeur offers.”...
...Dismantling also played a big part in the festival’s other opener, Demolition, by Dallas Buyers Club director Jean-Marc Vallée....
...The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, by Olivia Laing, Canongate, RRP£16.99/Picador, RRP$26 Laing’s last book, The Trip to Echo Spring (2013), explored the nexus of literature and alcohol...
...Real events and people make unglossed appearances, so that when Jeanie changes her name to Genie in 1972 the reader is left to infer that the inspiration was David Bowie’s hit single of that year, “The Jean...
...Olivia Laing is the author of ‘The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink’ (Canongate RRP£20)...
...Certainly, today Mr Gilbert does not look like a conventional chief executive in jeans and an open-necked shirt. He is about to fly to Aberdeen for the weekend and has jettisoned his suit....
...Books hang from the ceiling: RD Laing’s The Divided Self, Camus’ The Outsider, Orwell’s 1984....
...Basquiat (less obvious names include Claire Morgan, Cassandra Laing and Jon Pylypchuk)....
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