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May 29, 2006
Coutts prospecting among the new rich
...likely to serve footballers, entrepreneurs and pop stars as blue-blooded landed gentry...Dickens, Chopin, William Pitt the Elder and Jane Austen. Coutts does not disclose any of its current clientsbut...rumoured to include footballers Wayne Rooney and David Beckham as well as Sting and Elton John. Mr Pell, who has overall responsibility... By Jane Croft
May 28, 2006
Check the Coutts cheque book
...likely to serve footballers, entrepreneurs and pop stars as blue-blooded landed gentry...Dickens, Chopin, William Pitt the Elder and Jane Austen. Coutts does not disclose any of its current clients...rumoured to include footballers Wayne Rooney and David Beckham as well as singers such as Sting and Elton John. Mr Pell, who has overall responsibility... By Jane Croft Retail Banking Correspondent
November 5, 2009
The man who loved too much
...morning Cannes screening of Bright Star , Jane Campion's dramatisation of the love between John Keats and Fanny Brawne, this film critic found...poetry. And for cinema. Those fearing Jane Campion's career had self-destructed...Carrey - animation reconfirming what he does anyway - and Zemeckis's brave decision to keep much... By Nigel Andrews
November 28, 2009
Books of the year
...year’s most surprising hit, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which squeezed new blood out of Jane Austen’s work. In non-fiction...books tracked the lives of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, born 200 years ago this...lives of eccentric Americans including John Harvey Kellogg and Alfred Kinsey, Boyle... Introduction by Rosie Blau
January 5, 2007
The Lit girls
...Hollywood films. Becoming Jane, about Jane Austen’s early twenties, is released...depicting the lives of Anne, Emily and Charlotte, and The Best Time of Our Lives, about Welsh...spring. Finally, Oscar-winning director Jane Campion is at work on a script for Bright...film about the womanising Romantic poet John Keats. Of course, literary biopics are nothing... By Melissa McClements
November 30, 2005
Genius thrives in a creative haven
...H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Paul and Jane Bowles, Carson McCullers and Gypsy Rose Lee moved in together". It...genius loves company just as much as misery does. Creative communities spring up in the...The Bloomsbury Group were famously in and out of each other's parlours. In rural...Maiden Newton. Powys's literary brothers John Cowper and Llewelyn Powys also came to... By David Honigmann
October 31, 2006
Fake eyeballs, really hot rhetoric
...quickly as possible.” Moments later, John McCain and John Boehner, both Republicans, joined...Bosnia – a move that appears to her and others to be running against efforts by Germany...sales down nearly 10 per cent. But that does not seem to be putting off Jack Welch, the...of former Bond Girls (Grace Jones and Jane Seymour, since you asked) and a “signature...
November 3, 2007
Prejudice and pride
...back on 2007 as the year of Jane Austen. More specifically, the year of Pride and Prejudice, which on World Book...read the book for publisher John Murray, call it? ‘A pretty little...s Diary boldly goes where Jane Austen never does: into the man...there is one small objection. Jane Austen’s novel (first...otherwise so enjoyable? Not me. John Sutherland is co-author with... By John Sutherland
November 4, 2009
Film releases: November 6
...Cannes screening of Bright Star (), Jane Campion’s dramatisation of the love between John Keats and Fanny Brawne, this film critic found he...poetry. And for cinema. Those fearing Jane Campion’s career had self-destructed...Carrey – animation reconfirming what he does anyway – and Zemeckis’s brave decision to keep much... By Nigel Andrews
January 20, 2006
The great bright hope
...Myers may have made more films and John Kenneth Galbraith may have...pungent writing on human rights and international affairs. He has...himself in a film (Antonia and Jane: the thinking person’s Thelma & Louise) and in 2003 the news weekly, Maclean...pleased. But no. If Ignatieff does manage to win next week, it...office is the headquarters of John Capobianco, Ignatieff’s rival in the... By Craig Offman