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...Like James Creswell as the Commander and Rachel Nicholls as Aunt Lydia, they register not just as characters but as psychological forces....
...A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65 by David Kynaston Bloomsbury £30, 704 pages Charlotte Lydia Riley is the author of ‘Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain’ Join our online book group on...
...Harry recalls meeting Princess Margaret at a family Christmas where the Queen’s elderly and embittered sister had bought him a present, which turned out to be a biro....
...The Danish composer scored a scorching hit with it, not least because Margaret Atwood’s book offers an opera composer a lot of potential....
...backdrops of a Fragonard painting, floral bowers and swagged drapes....
...Theories abounded, until, that is, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley stepped forward in 1991 claiming to have been behind hundreds of crop circles dating back to 1976, which they’d created using little more than...
...He bought it from his local authority under the Right to Buy scheme introduced by Margaret Thatcher’s government in 1980....
...If you’re an author, or potential author, planning to enter this year’s FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award or Bracken Bower Prize, it’s a must-watch....
...The winner of the award, and the winner of the £15,000 Bracken Bower Prize (for business book proposals by an author aged under 35) will be announced on December 1....
...The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood, Chatto & Windus, RRP£20, 432 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...You might have noticed that its publishers have pulled out all the stops for the global release of The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale: midnight bookshop openings, heavily embargoed...
...’s daughter; Daisy, a 16-year-old raised in neutral Canada; and Aunt Lydia, the Taser-wielding tyrant with a surprising back-story....
...The Cliff House, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, UK, £5m Where On the edge of the white cliffs of Dover, a 90-minute drive from Gatwick airport....
...The rivalry of whorehouse madams Margaret Wells (Morton) and Lydia Quigley (Manville) has reached murderous proportions, especially now daughter Charlotte Wells (Findlay) has decamped to the opposing side...
...Hadley’s acute consideration of domestic drama and its sober richness has something in common with Margaret Drabble’s early novels, in particular Jerusalem the Golden (1967), which deploys a similar intelligence...
...Groups should consider the breezily chic Cottage at The Bower on Byron Bay, which sleeps 10....
...Shriti Vadera Chair of Santander UK and a judge for the 2018 award Margaret Heffernan’s Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril (2011) is an illustration of the importance of diversity...
...Bracken Bower Prize Are you under 35 with an idea for a book that tackles emerging business themes? Submit a proposal for The Bracken Bower Prize by September 30....
...It was founded by Sir Alfred Bower, who eventually became Lord Mayor of London....
...Populus, the polling company, on Monday quizzed a cross-section of voters from the Glasgow East seat of Margaret Curran, Labour’s shadow Scotland secretary....
...One of her stories, “Local Obits”, is simply a list of lines from ordinary people’s obituaries – real or imagined, it doesn’t matter: “Margaret enjoyed watching Nascar, doing crossword puzzles, and spending...
...His response to Bower’s invitation to join the consulting group was: “I’m honoured but it’s a terrible risk you would be taking.” Bower replied: “Yes, and so would you!”...
...We are reminded, for example, that the photographic pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron was Tennyson’s close friend and neighbour on the Isle of Wight....
...… Diary of the Fall, by Michel Laub, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99 Memory, guilt and fatherhood are at the centre of this poignant novel by Laub (named among the “Best...
...Margaret Hodge, who chairs the committee, said: “We are far from convinced that the CQC is up to the major challenge of registering and assessing 10,000 GP practices this year....
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