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...In the 1890s, he and his (Protestant) wife Mary Hertz lived in Florence and raised a family....
...He offers not a mass trawl of Weidenfeld’s thousands of titles but selected episodes framed by 19 landmark books, from Nabokov’s censorship-busting Lolita to Antonia Fraser’s best-selling Mary, Queen of...
...Mary Pakenham, an enduring friend, concurs with other voices when she detects in Ian not bristling machismo but a “somewhat feminine temperament”....
...Walking slowly towards me up the beach comes Logan Mountstuart, the fictional writer whose journals make up William Boyd’s novel Any Human Heart. He is in a reflective mood....
...There’s definite comic potential in Mary (Pom Boyd), Frank’s libidinous mother, with her changing menu of gentlemen lodgers, such as Stefan, the gratuitously naked French student who likes doing an “ellycoptaire...
...The heavyweight signatories — including Paris agreement co-author Laurence Tubiana and the former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson — said it was crucial for successful negotiations and decision-making...
...The women around him played decisive roles: not only, as Bate explains, sister Dorothy (who wrote “prose poetry of the highest order”) and wife Mary, but patrons such as the author Charlotte Smith....
...Liverpool; Nik Morrell, London; Ian Dempsey, New Jersey Polymath 1,015: Richard Otley, Wakefield Crossword 16,123: Michael Baylor, France; Scott Forbes, London; Judith Hadley, USA Polymath 1,014: Peter Boyd...
...The interiors are the work of London firm Michaelis Boyd, which acted on Reybier’s desire to, as he put it, “create somewhere where each of my guests – well known or totally unknown – should feel completely...
...From the radical “dissenting academies” that nurtured Hazlitt and Mary Wollstonecraft to the summer schools in upstate New York run by the metaphysical outdoorsman Tom Davidson, Witcraft celebrates the democratic...
...Mary Farley, a forensic therapist with a penchant for birds, ex-wife of artist Matthew Barney and now owner of Marfa Vista Real Estate, took a look and blessed the purchase....
...In Wilde Senior’s case, the libel action — brought by Mary Travers, a patient and family friend, against his wife Jane — also involved a claim that Sir William had drugged and raped Travers....
...the threads of author Mary Shelley’s life and work....
...Irish fiction seems to swarm with bold newcomers, many of them women, from McInerney to Sara Baume, Mary Costello, Eimear McBride and Sally Rooney....
...Love is Blind, by William Boyd, Viking A young Scotsman discovers a new life in Paris in the popular Boyd’s latest....
...All three are part of what can loosely be called the New London Jazz Scene, and have collaborated with such leading lights as saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings and drummer Moses Boyd....
...Norma Cohen is the FT’s former demography correspondent and is a PhD candidate at Queen Mary University of London...
...Mr Vogt and Mr Boyd did not respond to a request for comment. Mr Hall could not be reached for comment....
...Mr Boyd says there is a strong investment case for putting money into private companies....
...Still, for Mary Andringa, chair of the board of Vermeer Corporation, a family-owned manufacturing company based in Pella, Iowa, the strong dollar’s impact remains very real....
...Bassanini Former Chairman, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Mark Burgess Former Managing Director, Future Fund, Australia Hans Eichel Former Finance Minister, Germany Brigitte Granville Professor, Queen Mary...
...At first Michael Boyd’s staging is overwhelming....
...Plats du Jour by Patience Gray (a woman whom Mrs David detested even more than she detested Peter Mayle) and Primrose Boyd is of 1957....
...Mary Creagh, shadow environment secretary, has asked why ministers took so long to act....
...Michael Boyd, artistic director, Royal Shakespeare Company. Kenneth Branagh, actor. Malcolm Bruce, MP. Clive Callman, judge. Tony Cunningham, MP. Charles Dunstone, chairman, Carphone Warehouse....
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