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...The Ondaatje items include some fine art, with a bronze bust of Joseph Conrad by Jacob Epstein (1924, est £5,000-£8,000) and, the catalogue’s cover lot, a rare portrait of “a young lady, a free person of...
...For a composer so long forgotten, Joseph Bologne (1745-99), also known as Chevalier de Saint-Georges, has a uniquely memorable biography....
...“Geography blended with time equals destiny,” wrote the poet Joseph Brodsky. However his lyrical description of a subject developed by Ptolemy does not exactly tally with modern perceptions....
...Sue Townsend’s latest novel is ‘The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year’ (Michael Joseph)...
...The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year, by Sue Townsend, Michael Joseph, RRP£18.99, 448 pages Sue Townsend has surely overtaken playwright Joe Orton to become Leicester’s most famous literary child....
...Extract from ‘The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole 13¾’, 30th anniversary edition by Sue Townsend (Michael Joseph, Penguin £7.99)...
...Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years By Sue Townsend Michael Joseph £18.99, 416 pages FT Bookshop price: £15.19 Many of us who have followed the diaries of Adrian Mole since he first appeared in 1982, aged...
...Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy, by Joseph Stiglitz, Allen Lane RRP£9.99 A Nobel prize-winning economist, Stiglitz analyses the crisis from a Keynesian perspective, tracing...
...The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 By Sue Townsend Michael Joseph £10.99 320 pages FT Bookshop price: £8.79 When Adrian Mole, The Wilderness Years was published four years ago, author Sue Townsend...
...Mark Townsend, the conjuring curate from Leominster, is publishing his first novel this month....
...Frances Townsend, the White House counter-terrorism adviser, dismissed suggestions that the administration was playing politics by releasing the information....
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