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...One of my favourite maps of medieval Asia traces the routes taken by three travellers — Giovanni da Pian del Carpini, William of Rubruck and Marco Polo — in the 13th century....
...Long Journey and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, dreamt of Maine’s coasts thanks to Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge, set at the edge of the ocean, and cannot imagine Oxford, Mississippi, without William...
...If writers have clans, Li belongs to the same family as William Trevor (whose friendship Li cites in the acknowledgments) and Alice Munro, who created something powerfully moving from melancholy and struggle...
...Michael Howard remains the most influential home secretary since Roy Jenkins, who was in the post from 1974 to 1976: on criminal justice policy and prisons in particular....
...Nilanjana Roy is an FT Weekend columnist Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Roy Khoury, Blue Fleet Group’s chief executive, told the Financial Times in an email that the company was the “exclusive broker” for the vessel’s owner, meaning Blue Fleet handled commercial arrangements...
...Photographer’s assistants, Pedro Faria, Seb McCluskey and Georgia Williams. Tailor, Allison Ozeray. Stylist’s assistants, Amy Jolly and Lacie Gittins. Production, Rachael Evans at RE.Pro...
...That’s the point that we’re trying to make,” said Williams....
...Playwright Roy Williams says: “With every fibre of her being, she adores theatre.”...
...It is telling, moreover, that rather than Mitchel expressing his guilt directly, Keneally has him write to Jenny that “I’ve given my father more grief than all the sisters and young William combined.”...
...Things went similarly smoothly when Motion was teaching English at Hull University, where he hit it off with Philip Larkin (“the greatest poet alive”) and, after Larkin’s death in 1985, Motion became the...
...Somewhere in the world, Don Jr, Lachlan and Prince William were grinning. It was, Kendall acknowledged, “a fucking horrible job that clearly kills you” — but one he desperately wanted....
...All these notes are there in this co-production between Actors Touring Company and Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, lightly touched on by the five-strong writing team (Roy Williams, Bola Agbaje...
...“I do not like the ‘deal’ as I understand it from the cheerleading so far,” Chip Roy, the Texas House Republican, tweeted on Saturday night....
...Read the story by my colleagues William Langley and Chan Ho-him....
...Meanwhile, Shiv Roy, now reinstated in real life as Sarah Snook, flaunts her new pulling-power in a version by Kip William of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, a one-woman show at London’s 900-seat...
...Sadly, these other papers didn’t include photos of the money managers that were rated, so we can’t say whether or how those surveyed ranked the relative hotness of Bill Gross, Bill Ackman, William Danoff...
...miranda.green@ft.com Letter in response to this article: This Pomeranian-sized bullfrog has nothing to fear / From William Bigelow, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil...
...market is saturated with celebrity offerings, mostly picture books, sometimes ghostwritten and often expertly illustrated, from chefs (Jamie Oliver: Billy and the Giant Adventure) to sports stars (Serena Williams...
...Inspired by Ruskin and William Morris’s dislike of mass production, he chose the Arts and Crafts style that drew on vernacular English design and romanticised medieval influences....
...“Good managers have done well, but there have been many landmines along the way,” said Tiger Williams, founder of outsourced trading company Williams Trading....
...Elizabeth I’s entry into London on the eve of her coronation in January 1559 has been described by Roy Strong as the moment of invention for a “walkabout monarch”, the apparently effortless managing of the...
...There are embossed and gilded friezes, trompe l’oeil painted doors, William Morris wallpapers and ceramics arranged on a plate rail in the dining room....
...It can offer routes into discussing racism (Roy Williams’ Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads), sexuality (John Donnelly’s The Pass) or acceptance (Bend it Like Beckham: The Musical)....
...“Picasso was a phenomenon,” said its curator William Rubin. “There is virtually nothing in modern art that Picasso has not invented, practised or at least influenced.”...
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