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...The hapless tsar, Nicholas II, appointed himself as his successor and so contributed to the doom hastening towards him....
...Like Joseph Conrad’s character Charles Marlow and Philip Roth’s Nathan Zuckerman, le Carré’s George Smiley recurs in his novels, reminding readers of the author’s enduring concerns....
...Nicholas Coulson Carlisle, Cumbria, UK...
...What you’ve been saying A parable to navigate May’s stormy leadership, letter from Nicholas Coulson, Carlisle, Cumbria, UK Theresa May’s behaviour reminds me of Captain MacWhirr in Joseph Conrad’s Typhoon...
...I remember getting turned on to the power of storytelling by Charles Dickens, when my mother read Nicholas Nickleby to me as a child. Do you have a writing routine?...
...Balancing Acts, by Nicholas Hytner, Jonathan Cape, RRP£20 The ex-director of London’s National Theatre looks back on his tenure....
...An hour earlier, I’d walked the perimeter of the course with Nicholas Horbaczewski, chief executive of the Drone Racing League....
...Asterix and the Missing Scroll, by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, translated by Anthea Bell, Orion, RRP£10.99/Asterix RRP$17.99 The indomitable Gaul is back in this second outing from Ferri and Conrad...
...It was his great-grandfather Nicholas who created the platform for the family’s business success, fleeing the pogroms and likely compulsory military service of Ukraine for the US at the age of 10....
...At 9am, precise to the minute, the gallery’s director, Nicholas Penny, strides in, greets each waiter and waitress, and joins me at a corner table....
...The prologued childhood trauma of a brother’s death on a terrorist errand (surely nicked from Hitchcock’s Sabotage or its original, Conrad’s The Secret Agent?)...
...God bless Danish director Nicholas Winding Refn – if that deity is applicable in a story of Vikings, fledgling crusaders and closing-reel American Indians – for giving us a surreal epic that measures its...
...It is within walking distance of the Shangri-La and Conrad hotels. “Any customer can be dropped off right outside the door and then it’s only two steps into the restaurant....
...The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland Edited by Daniel Hahn and Nicholas Rolin Oxford University Press £30, 384 pages FT Bookshop price: £24 It wasn’t until the second half of the 18th century...
...Islands: A Trip Through Time and Space By Peter Conrad Thames & Hudson, £14.95 This is not the book to help you decide between the Maldives or the Andamans as the destination for a winter break; Conrad’s...
...Travel Compiled by Harry Eyres Islands: A Trip Through Time and Space By Peter Conrad Thames & Hudson £14.95, 192 pages Islands are usually seen as idyllic retreats, but in Conrad’s view they can be prisons...
...When Conrad Black acquired the Telegraph in 1986 and appointed Max Hastings editor, he assumed Deedes would retire....
...As was modish, The Castle of Otranto (1765) was published pseudonymously, purporting to be a translation of a Medieval work by Onuphrio Muralto, canon of the Church of St Nicholas, Otranto....
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