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...D’une île (“From an island”) is true to its name: the 17th-century buildings look as though they’re floating above the Perche natural park. Indeed, nature seems to dictate everything here....
...uniform: knee-length beige dress with a white collar, brown bowler hat with an embroidered N, white gloves and a hairnet to secure her regulation bun....
...Provençal charm I’m writing this at a time when it feels possible that a late-summer, quarantine-free holiday in southern Europe may yet emerge as an undertaking somewhat less difficult to execute than...
...His approach was charged, with juxtapositions including a Ku Klux Klan hood lying like an infant in a vintage baby carriage, and fugitive slave posters serving as a backdrop to a gun....
...I’m walking off.’ But that would not have been a solution.”...
...It was a hard time to be young and African. I was born in London but for a few years as an infant my parents took me to Ghana, their home....
...Most of Chad’s population is concentrated in pockets of the west and the more verdant south, where rising fertility rates are driving malnutrition and unnecessary deaths of mothers and infants as well as...
...Lionel Shriver Author of ‘The Mandibles’ There’s an arbitrariness to choosing any “best” book, but I’d nominate Hannah Kohler’s debut novel The Outside Lands (Picador) as the “most surprising” 2016 release...
...He has earned his reputation as one of Silicon Valley’s most combative operators. “I’m a natural born trust-buster,” he says of his mission to smash the taxi cartels....
...POP Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock N Roll, by Marc Dolan, Norton, RRP£17.99, 592 pages A New York University professor’s academically rigorous rather than salaciously rock and roll account of...
...I had no name and no identity number; all I had was a copy of the police report handed to John, as the official “finder”, and a mobile phone snapshot of the infant that he’d taken....
...Can you please advise us in our situation and make us aware of the pitfalls. Thank you, Christopher D M Wood, Hull Dear Christopher, This is a complicated set of facts but not an uncommon scenario....
...It was only natural for Stig and his parents to discuss what was happening in Sweden and the world, and furious arguments would often break out round the kitchen table....
...I’m uncomfortable with the idea of reducing this - as I think Marc runs the danger of doing – to one big failed experience with capitalism....
...Diary of a Bad Year By J.M....
...I cd.n’t get on the buses in time to catch the train I’d aimed at, & so I walked....
...BREAKING THE SPELL: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C....
...“Marks Spencer sells an awful lot of lingerie. 45 bras a minute. 25m pairs of knickers a year” - from Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/ Y&R and Walker Media’s submission for M&S, which won a Silver....
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