Hints and tips:
...There’s a system of “marks, merits, lesson cards, judgment and consequences”. There are disputatiousness marks and indecorum marks....
...Susie Boyt’s latest novel “Loved and Missed” is out now in paperback (Virago)....
...“Remember your readers,” Swiv chides sternly as she marks the adults’ work....
...Her life left no marks on a thing.” The risk of a thematic approach, however, is that complex subjects get overly simplified and characters remain one-dimensional....
...There are permanent marks on the ceiling from the trees....
...Email Susie at susie.boyt@ft.com Follow @financialtimesfashion on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first....
...When she attended a meeting of the Judy Garland Club in London in 1964, members were enchanted to see a Marks & Spencer label peeping out from her neckline....
...This book by Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth is a rebuke to that “failure of the mind”. If we would only take the trouble to look, many solutions are hidden in plain sight....
...Susie Boyt Novelist and FT contributor Negative Capability, Michele Roberts’ memoir of a novelist’s villainous year, was bracing and galvanising....
...In her FT review, Susie Boyt wrote Oyeyemi “admires Borges’ line about the way writing should affirm the hallucinatory nature of reality. She’s not kidding.”...
...Disconnection and alienation mark the “ordinary time” of human interaction, they are the rule and not the exception here....
...(thanks to Mark Cooper, a financial adviser from Surrey, for that gem)....
...Heather, the Totality , by Matthew Weiner, Canongate, RRP£14.99/Little, Brown, RRP£25, 144 pages Susie Boyt is author of ‘Love and Fame’ (Virago) Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Susie Boyt and Robin Lane Fox March 25, 4pmLincoln College: Oakeshott Room, £7-£12.50 Susie Boyt discusses her sixth novel Love & Fame with fellow FT columnist Robin Lane Fox....
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...Christie’s will also mark its milestone with a month-long exhibition of loaned British masterpieces that have passed through its sale rooms, starting on June 17....
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