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...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...It sits one block along from Les Deux Magots, the café once frequented by Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir et al and which has become a hang-out for tourists and would-be existentialists....
...And the moment that really tipped over was this, at a service at St Paul’s Cathedral for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee....
...Kana Yosumi, PR & VIP assistant for Paul Smith, and Yassir Al-Refaie, a director at robotics firm Seyo, married in August at Hackney Town Hall, London....
...My boots creep closer and closer to the fire until I smell burning and pull them back....
...It may house the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and a fine symphony orchestra, but it is just as well known for the fact that in 1969 the river that runs through it was declared a fire hazard....
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...How To Eat Outside: Fabulous Al Fresco Food for BBQs, Bonfires, Camping and More, by Genevieve Taylor, Bantam Press, RRP£17.99 So many men, myself included, have written about cooking outdoors with fire...
...… To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, by Joshua Ferris, Viking RRP£16.99/Little Brown, RRP$26 Paul O’Rourke, a New York dentist, insomniac and serial monogamist, finds his world turned upside down when someone...
...In the past the three of us had walked on Turkey’s St Paul Trail, carrying all our own food and water, and sleeping rough. Here, we surrendered to the pampering....
...“‘Look to the rock from which you are hewn.’ We were hewn from a rock of people who were ready to lay down their lives for freedom . . ....
...His elucidation of works such as the St Matthew Passion makes you want to listen to the music afresh....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? It’s all here....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...In September, a little more than a month after lunching with the FT, Paul Muldoon became poetry editor for The New Yorker, the most widely read showcase for poetry in the US....
...; the building of St Paul’s; Churchill; Swinging London, all in the space of a few disorienting minutes....
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...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
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