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...Warwick-based dealer John Cornall stocks a range of well-priced chests and marriage cupboards sourced from rural parts of eastern and central Europe, which cost far less than comparable versions from western...
...If Herman Melville, Byron and Patrick O’Brian took inspiration from the Wager’s story, so did William Golding, whose Lord of the Flies Grann cites in his epigraph....
...John Vaillant was on a writers’ retreat in Italy in May 2016 when his Twitter feed lit up with dramatic news from his home country, Canada....
...At the opposite end of the seriousness spectrum lies Oh God, The Sun Goes (Melville House £16.99)....
...They’re Melville’s Moby-Dick. So these animals are sort of being awe-inspiring and a part of human culture for a long, long time. John Thornhill And when was the first one you saw in real life....
...Compared with Calla and Anton’s passion, the attraction between the two main characters of Jeremy P Bushnell’s Relentless Melt (Melville House, £16.99) is more tentative and cerebral....
...McCarthy fathered a second son, John, with his third wife Jennifer Winkley, in 1999, when he was 66....
...The group, chaired by ex-England international Nigel Melville, includes former Morgan Stanley investment banker Mark Rawlinson, and experienced football executive Jane Purdon....
...John Gapper’s advice (“Quiet quitters in the office should follow this advice”, Opinion, FT Weekend, August 27) is if you want to get out of the rat race be a “quiet quitter” and go slow....
...“Of Paradise, I cannot speak properly, for I have not been there,” professed the unknown 14th-century author of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville....
...But Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Mill and his son, John Stuart Mill, all shared the same view....
...Ron Noon, Former Senior Lecturer in History Liverpool John Moores Univer...
...Overlooking the Melville monument on St Andrew Square — since the 1780s one of the city’s most fashionable addresses and the heart of Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town — the Townhouse’s building was constructed...
...BS Life membership Rs10,000 (about £100) with a Rs500 (about £5) admission fee; jnpetitinstitute.org The London Library, London Charles Dickens, John Stuart Mill and future prime minister Lord John Russell...
...Why call on the literary tropes of Herman Melville or John Donne in writing a song? Not to transmit a particular meaning, but because “you want your songs to sound good”....
...Tony Barber FT Europe commentator In times of quarantine the place to go is Herman Melville and Moby Dick....
...Melville-Smith, partner at Seddons Solicitors....
...Shakespeare, Herman Melville, William Blake, John Keats, Isaac Asimov, Bob Dylan and James Joyce were familiar, but there were also, like friendly shadows behind Rushdie’s words, medieval mystery plays:...
...Gun Island , by Amitav Ghosh, John Murray, RRP£15.99, 320 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...I’m inspired by John Updike, who told the New York Times in 1984 of his struggles with The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman....
...What all the most unbuttoned wordies — from Rabelais through Leopardi, whose Zibaldone, or “hodgepodge” book, ran to thousands of pages, from Herman Melville to James Joyce, Salman Rushdie and David Foster...
...In 1972, Marcia Lanyon left a job in London with society jeweller John Donald and followed her husband to Hong Kong, where he was working for airline Cathay Pacific....
...Will Wattpad or Fanfiction produce a Jane Austen, a Mark Twain, a Herman Melville or a John Steinbeck? Nobody (yet) knows....
...Nicolson references Heaney and Yeats, Melville and Milton, but his own writing sparkles too, with beautiful accompanying illustrations by artist Kate Boxer....
...The Blood Miracles , by Lisa McInerney, John Murray, RRP£14.99 In McInerney’s follow-up to her 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize-winner The Glorious Heresies, we return to Cork, where anti-hero Ryan Cusack is...
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