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...The Fraud by Zadie Smith, Hamish Hamilton £20/Penguin $29, 464 pages Stephen Bush is an FT columnist and associate editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...It was first noticed by Geoff Hamilton on one of his away days while filming for TV’s Gardeners’ World....
...Used in stews and eaten as salads, these were probably not much like the cabbage varieties we know today — without Linnaeus or even Monty Don to unite our understanding, we are a bit hazy on the specifics...
...David Walliams also charms as Collins’ dapper boyfriend Monty: “I’m Mr Joan Collins, I have to look the part.”...
...This gives me an excuse to link to my favourite scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian....
...Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton are an impressive choice for that in any case. They’ve been consulted by Greece’s official creditors previously in the crisis....
...It was as though Shakespeare not Monty and the troops had beaten the Nazis....
...England’s go-slow batting has left them an uphill battle to save the first Test against New Zealand in Hamilton....
...England’s cricketers have the chance to arrest their alarming slump in form at the start of a must-win three-match Test series against New Zealand in Hamilton next week....
...“Although at a dinner last night I said I would relinquish the title to Richard Hamilton.” He makes it sound at the same time mischievous and courtly....
...ON BEAUTY by Zadie Smith Hamish Hamilton £16.99, 432 pages ”Imagine being her, thought Zora vaguely.”...
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