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...July 20-23, secretgardenparty.com Salzburg Festival, Austria The latest incarnation of this heavyweight classical festival may offer few surprises, but this year’s line-up is as rich and deep as ever,...
...A century on, editorial focus had shifted from the living spaces of the rich and famous to those belonging to ordinary, if tasteful, people....
...In Jessie Burton’s 2014 bestseller The Miniaturist, much of the action takes place in a lavish cabinet house — a doll’s house without a façade — given to protagonist Nella as a wedding present....
...There’s obviously also a rich literary tradition associated with the less-than-Muriel-Sparky areas of the Scottish capital (Ian Rankin, Irvine Welsh) but Fagan’s new work is a clever fiction scaffolded on...
...Table Manners: The Cookbook by Jessie and Lennie Ware (Penguin, £15.99)....
...The couple relocate to Los Angeles for the shoot, where they rub shoulders with the rich and powerful and Elise feels increasingly adrift....
...The series is beautifully produced, with each of the monologues intercut with one another to create a rich narrative collage....
...Simon Russell Beale and Claire Skinner play the comfortable Sedleys, parents of Becky’s innocent best friend Amelia (Claudia Jessie)....
...Cyril Ramaphosa strengthened his grip on South Africa’s ruling African National Congress after an ally of his predecessor, Jacob Zuma, resigned as leader of a mineral-rich province that has been rocked by...
...The veteran soprano’s rendition here has a rich, creamy texture. But she ultimately sounds a little underpowered....
...She has arrived in Amsterdam from the countryside, a wife for the rich merchant Johannes Brandt, but her new husband is absent and uninvolved....
...“They are very optimistic about the future and they are willing to spend money,” says Jessie Qian, KPMG’s head of consumer markets in China....
...A standout performance from rising star Jessie Buckley burns at the centre of the film, about a young woman brought into conflict with her family by a mysterious man accused of murder....
...Suffragette Jessie Stephenson thought Fawcett’s Suffragism a “mushy old institution, dry as bones”; for their part, the Suffragists viewed the Pankhursts’ call to “martyrdom” as dangerously emotional and...
...The Muse, by Jessie Burton, Picador, RRP£12.99 / Ecco, RRP$27.99, 441 pages...
...But it is also partly down to the beautiful performances of Miranda Raison, Jessie Buckley and Judi Dench....
...As highly wrought as the ornate doll’s house on its jacket, Jessie Burton’s debut The Miniaturist opens in 1686 in the Netherlands....
...It’s lightweight but rich in pigment, so you get a dense coverage without heaviness.”...
...Past Critics’ Choice winners include Adele, Jessie J and Emeli Sandé. The latest, 21-year-old singer Sam Smith, doesn’t look likely to buck the trend....
...Jessie Buckley’s spontaneous, unaffected Miranda and Joshua James’ gawky, eager Ferdinand are very sweet and funny....
...… God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England, by Jessie Childs, Bodley Head, RRP£25/$29.95 In her fast-paced and well-researched book, Childs focuses on one family, the Vaux of Northamptonshire...
...The significant revelation of what did happen in the past, and why, does not quite have its weight (Jessie Cave’s Thomasina does not mature, as she needs to)....
...Most imposing: Jessie Raven as the plangently sinister socialite. Jennifer Rivera (Hansel) and Jennifer Aylmer (Gretel) looked more aggressive than they sounded....
...Jessie Wilson, a researcher who prepared a report on Japanese immigration for CLSA, an independent stockbroker, says the process started in the 1980s when big Japanese companies shifted some of their factories...
...Companies in areas that have been water-rich can benefit from following the example of areas with long experience of shortages....
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