Hints and tips:
...“I don’t know if I’m good at much, but I do feel I’m good at bringing people together, and them becoming friends.”...
...Leaping fish, cherries and a cockerel are just some of the 40 or so shapes she has picked up over the past decade – but most prized of all is a cat: “That, I’m obsessed with....
...No, listen, I’m trying. I walk as much as I can and I’ve attempted running but I’m incredibly clumsy and a couple of times I’ve ended up flat on my face....
...Autumn is well and truly here, and I’m thrilled....
...At 1,650m, the resort offers skiing up to 3,600m on the Glacier de Mantel, although summer skiing has now been limited....
...Robert ArmstrongMy mantel is bare as well. Katie MartinIt’s a decline in moral values and/or my levels of popularity with my own family....
...Now I’m trying to start a small office, and it sits there as a reminder that I once worked with Jamie, and Jamie worked with Chipperfield.”...
...Although I can’t help quoting Belloc: “I’m tired of love; I’m still more tired of rhyme.But money gives me pleasure all the time.” Do you believe in an afterlife?Yes....
...While the past tense is the default in literary fiction, the present tense is gaining ground in historical fiction (no doubt thanks to Hilary Mantel’s influence)....
...“I’m quite good at putting up a different front,” he told me. “Inside I’m nervous.”...
...If I’m leaving a Hästens it matters what bed I leave home to sleep in.”...
...People always think I’m the wild one, but Hugo also loves to shock and surprise.” What followed was a two-stage transformation enacted over five years....
...I’m stepping in for Stephen today, who is on holiday. Today’s newsletter is on women’s healthcare, and how Northern Ireland is falling far behind....
...So I’ve returned to another favourite author, the recently deceased Hilary Mantel....
...Now I’m fortunate to have a back garden with a healthy wall of mature ivy, which comes in handy....
...Recent stage versions of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy and Robert Harris’s Cicero trilogy (Imperium) wrangled those mammoth texts into drama....
...I can just about see the daylight, but I’m not there yet.” “The Mirror and the Light”, by Hilary Mantel, is published by Fourth Estate. Rebecca Watson is the FT’s assistant arts editor....
...I’m drawn to the simple but layered images of the Polish contemporary artist Katarzyna Karpowicz....
...With The Mirror and the Light, the final part of Hilary Mantel’s epic trilogy, it’s size: how do you turn an 870-page tome into two hours’ traffic on stage?...
...“Our family had black dolls and images of black life hanging on our walls and/or placed on the mantel....
...But I’m easier on myself with the Maybe Someday pile; it’s fine, even liberating, if that becomes Maybe Never....
...Mills & Boon guarantees a happy ending, but Ferguson’s own story is the tragi-romance of so many royals: “however airy the enclosure they inhabit, it’s still a cage,” as the novelist Hilary Mantel has put...
...(Although overmantel mirrors generally belong above mantels, and landscape-shaped mirrors are not usually to my taste.)...
...I’m too puritanical to do that. But we guiltily traded recommendations for blissfully concise novels — mainly by Penelope Fitzgerald, Muriel Spark and Beryl Bainbridge....
...Named after an essay by Meg Wolitzer about the belittling of women’s literature, the shop sells rare and undiscovered books by female writers and artists, from big-hitters such as JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel...
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