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...Kate Maxwell’s novel, ‘Hush’, is out in paperback this month (Virago) Note: this article has been corrected....
...Images of it appeared on romantic postcards (L’Artillerie de L’Amour) and on postcards the military gave to servicemen to send home from the front....
...“We shouldn’t give up on DB because the average duration is still 15 years,” says Nigel Wilson, chief executive of L&G....
...Inside the UK’s capital conundrum Would the UK listings market be a different place if Robert Maxwell never (apparently) fell off his yacht?...
...covinovenezia.com Disappointment An invitation to lunch at Girafe, the sought-after seafood restaurant in Paris’s Cité de l’Architecture, promised a treat....
...Kendall is passed over by his father to become chief executive, but still ends up singing a laudatory, cringe-inducing rap: “L to the O, G, A, N.”...
...L.E.K....
...Some of the names are now widely known: the former retail king Les Wexner who has stepped off the board of L Brands, the company he founded; the founder of Apollo Global Management, Leon Black, who has also...
...(WSJ) What else we’re reading Just one in 10 fund managers expect V-shaped recovery V, U, W, L — just a handful of the letter-shaped recoveries that investors have put forward as possible paths for the...
...L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated ‘Female Byron’, by Lucasta Miller, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25/Knopf, RRP$30 Letitia Landon or LEL as she styled herself,...
...Ms Maxwell was never charged with any wrongdoing....
...The two are believed to have been introduced in the 1990s by Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of disgraced media tycoon Robert Maxwell....
...We liked La Cabane de l’Aiguillon so much we had lunch there two days in a row....
...A pergola surrounds three sides of the Sunk Garden, beyond which is the lily walk planted with species including Lilium pardilinum, L. leichtlinii and L. henryi....
...Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert, her favourite glass blower, spent more than a year creating cloud-like pendants for the bar and two-Michelin-starred restaurant, as well as the chandeliers for the gargantuan wine...
...Turned into a hotel in the 1990s, it had opened as L’Aigle d’Or and later been called the Berjaya, named after the Malaysian conglomerate that owned it....
...John Kingman, a former civil servant at the Treasury, became chairman of L&G last year. But not everyone is happy about insurers’ increased influence....
...“Bordeaux looks prime for a comeback,” concludes Liv-ex’s Mr Maxwell....
...“If I was invited to an elegant evening event, l would most definitely wear a midnight blue,” says Italian designer Brunello Cucinelli....
...Marco Stroppa’s Nel fuggir del tempo: e’l sole was also down to be performed on Friday. But the composer did not finish the piece in time. Birtwistle at least got that part right. br.de/musica-viva...
...Even the city’s adoption of the great but patronised northern artist L.S. Lowry as local symbol emphasised cobbled quaintness rather than imaginative grandness....
...of luckless Maxwell pensioners....
...A glaring example of charismatic dominance leading to criminality was Robert Maxwell, who ran a media company rather than a bank, but renamed it Maxwell Communication Corporation....
...SOMETHING OLD Weathervane Alvin L. Jewell Tragically, the designer of this weathervane died in 1867 from an occupational hazard – a rooftop fall....
...It’s returning as part of the £300m development by L&G of Bucklersbury House, now called Walbrook Square....
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