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...Parlour maid Mary Hillier is “Mary Madonna”, pastiche of a Florentine Renaissance profile....
...“A book of great lyrical power,” the young Ian Rankin agreed. In The Sunday Times, Sir David Steel declared that it “presents us with the most individualistic voice for a decade”....
...I had arranged to meet the artist Andrea Mary Marshall, who often uses her own body as a canvas for her work....
...Mario has since become a member of the senior civil service in HM Treasury, as well as a visiting fellow at King’s College London. 2006 — Jennifer Rankin Jennifer Rankin was one of the 2006 winners of...
...Gavin Rankin, who runs it, is now a friend of the family. I also buy a lot of costume jewellery, in particular necklaces and earrings to wear on Eggheads....
...Visitors included former machinists with stories of Friday nights out, the daughter of house model Dorothy Blakeley, the 1960s designer Lesley Rankin (the first female creative head hired by Pringle), and...
...who succeeded Queen Elizabeth I in 1603 as James I of England: his own brilliantly detailed half-length portrait by the court-appointed “serjeant painter” John de Critz; a posthumous image of his mother Mary...
...Driving from St Mary through St John and St Martin, I head east, arriving at the picturesque harbour of Gorey. The coast of France, 14 miles distant, is a simple, misty brush-stroke....
...Ian Rankin on the Scottish underworld captivated, too, along with works by V.S. Pritchett and South Africa’s Es’kia Mphahlele....
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