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...The novel’s heroine, Mary Yellan, suspects that the bleak surroundings have warped the minds of the locals, and that there is “something of the Devil left in them still”....
...As a teenager she used to kayak across the lake to visit Mary Ellen Tyus and Mary Ellen’s mother, Mrs Anderson. They always had a plate of peanut butter cookies ready when she arrived....
...Enough — she suggests — to own several homes, an animal sanctuary, a painting by Stubbs and her own cryogenic chamber? “I think,” she honourably admits, “it might.”...
...The family art collection includes works by Velázquez, Stubbs and Rembrandt. The property division directly owns 1,550 properties, with a speciality in urban regeneration....
...Trencherman, by Eben Venter, translated by Luke Stubbs, Scribe, RRP£12.99 Venter’s dystopian tale imagines South Africa in the aftermath of a nuclear accident....
...The finest of Wilson’s cameos is reserved for the pastoral, horsey artist George Stubbs....
...The language swings wildly between Ishmael’s lyrical yet portentous soliloquy and the jagged, almost violent dialogue of Starbuck and Stubb. It was too much for my enfeebled brain....
...These included drawings of a gold and enamel ring, now lost, made for Mary Queen of Scots; a large, detailed, early 17th-century painting of a procession at St....
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