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...The Liar’s Dictionary, by Eley Williams, William Heinemann, RRP£14.99,288 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Enter the novelist Dan Mallory....
...Mallory (by Duncan Grant) for “love”; the 19th-century black actor Ira Aldridge for “people”; and a self-portrait by the Scottish painter Anna Zinkeisen for “self”....
...Whymper was a very different kind of mountain hero from George Mallory, the British Everest pioneer, but just as compelling....
...That Prince William likes Not Going Out. That Miranda Hart is exactly like Miranda off the telly. And that pretty much all comedians agree Steve Coogan is a genius....
...Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis, Vintage, RRP£12.99 Davis retells the story of George Mallory’s doomed bid to conquer Everest – and uses it to examine...
...Wilson has made a series of gifts in the form of monographic portfolios by outstanding international photographers, including Bruce Davidson, Taryn Simon, Manuel Alvarez Bravo and William Eggleston....
...He comes up with the George Mallory answer on why he tried to climb Everest: because it’s there. Mallory died, in 1924, in the attempt....
...Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis, Bodley Head, RRP £25 You would be forgiven for wondering if there was anything left to say about George Mallory and Sandy...
...William Trevor: The Collected Stories Viking, Vol 1 896 pages, Vol 2 960 pages, £30 each FT Bookshop price: £24 per volume This vast edition gathers together William Trevor’s complete short fiction,...
...“Our primary concern is the retail supply chain,” says Mallory Duncan, the NRF’s general counsel....
...In 1961, he entered his first race, at Mallory Park in the English Midlands, and promptly crashed....
...So I went to Mallory Park [a circuit in Leicestershire] for my first event. It was wet and, on lap four or five, off I rolled into a bank....
...Most answers to this arevariations on the enigmatic response British mountaineer George Mallory gave when asked why he wantedto climb Everest: “Because it’s there.”...
...His route is similar to that attempted by Mallory and Irvine in 1924. Like them, Staite is a keen oarsman, rowing for Cambridge in the 1991 Boat Race....
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