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...About 16 miles north of here is Wistman’s Wood, home to one of the last ancient groves. People speak of it in hushed voices — a weird place of tangled, searching branches....
...They don't find a caravan or a static home as safe as what they would wood, bricks and mortar. And some people do find it very difficult to get their home insurance....
...But Hope Patten had a serious plan — to wake the Marian shrine from its four-century slumber, to bring pilgrims back to Walsingham....
...“I have heard it said, and can easily imagine it to be true, that dead wood can give life to more species than living wood.”...
...For Marian Shaka, 20, pregnant, drowned off the Libyan coast with 25 other women....
...She’s a snob; her sister Marian’s suitor is “trade through and through”....
...I like homemade, less showy: bricks, a bit of wood, a grill and a good countertop....
...Greeks Bearing Gifts , by Philip Kerr, Quercus, RRP£18.99/Marian Wood, RRP$27 It’s 1957 and Bernie Gunther, Kerr’s mordant private eye, is living under an assumed name in Munich....
...“[At the beginning] it was anti-institutional, anti-market and anti-status,” observes Wood....
...Greeks Bearing Gifts, by Philip Kerr, Quercus, RRP£18.99/Marian Wood, RRP$27, 496 pages Adam LeBor is author of ‘District VIII’ (Head of Zeus) Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Her longtime editor, Marian Wood, recently published a moving account of meeting Grafton for the first time....
...Only a fraction of the freshly assembled collection is on view, but even that selection covers a stunning range: the dress Marian Anderson wore when she sang her historic concert at the Lincoln Memorial...
...Marian Couchman, to whom my father was briefly engaged in the 1950s, was head gardener at Westminster Abbey from 1961 until 1986....
...We don’t think it is as case of not being out of the woods yet, so much as not really having entered the woods yet....
...Art021 has increasing international ambitions, and this year boasts a number of big-name western dealers including Marian Goodman, Lehmann Maupin, Pace, Gagosian and Perrotin....
...The two soft-focus impressionist paintings, “At Giverny” and “In the Woods at Giverny” were catalogued as by Elmyr de Hory and estimated at a gentle NZ$1,000 each (about £500)....
...As Catherine Wood, curator of contemporary art and performance at Tate Modern, explains: “It’s also about asking, ‘Where does the work of the last two decades come from?...
...Edited extract from ‘How Fiction Works’ by James Wood (Vintage, RRP£8.99)...
...Dedicated to the Virgin prior to the 1260 victory over Florence, Siena’s devotion to the Madonna saw her public and private spaces adorned with Marian celebrations, such as Annunciations, Assumptions and...
...Today I live near New York in a renovated barn in Silvermine, Connecticut, in the woods outside a small city called Norwalk, with a housekeeper and two golden retrievers....
...“It is sold like most sculpture or photography, not as unique works but as editions,” Sehgal’s dealer Marian Goodman says....
...Many sailors, harking back to the days of wood and tar and woolly blue jumpers, like to imagine themselves as owners of classic boats....
...Dark wood-veneer panels give the bedroom a chalet feel, but they can be replaced for a change of atmosphere as can the underfloor coloured lighting....
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