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...August 16 to 25; further information and tickets here September Festival Golden Days An annual cultural festival that works across disciplines and mediums to explore what it calls the “B-side” of history...
...Chesil is one of Britain’s longest beaches and has been immortalised in postcards, paintings and fiction — most famously Ian McEwan’s 2007 novella. You can easily find it on a map....
...In November, LVMH agreed to buy the US brand, known for its robin’s-egg-blue boxes, diamond engagement rings and starring role in Truman Capote’s novella-turned-film Breakfast at Tiffany’s....
...The prose vibrates with zingy one-liners and there’s plenty of over-the-top gore, making this an unashamedly fun B-movie of a book....
...I love staying at the Riva Lofts, which is a cool, urban B&B by the Arno, 15 minutes’ walk from the city centre, with incredible views....
...The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth is a largely superb collection of interlinked stories, based around the central, titular, novella-length tale....
...It casts the creative process as blandly functional, a simple path from A to B....
...But the 15-year-old heroine Dounia (Oulaya Amamra) would see herself more as a B-movie idol — a Scarface of the banlieues....
...Myfanwy Piper’s libretto, based on Henry James’s dark novella, is a masterpiece of innuendo. What did the dead Quint and Miss Jessel do to the children?...
...He is a cult movie maker – Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, Cecil B Demented – and the owner of an unimprovable pencil-thin moustache....
...Taken together, though, the novellas intertwine in fascinating ways, echoing and reflecting each other....
...In 2010, the company’s director Juan Carlos Zagal treated festival audiences to Sin Sangre – part-recorded footage, part-live theatre, adapted from a novella by Alessandro Baricco and styled as a B-movie...
...At 83, Cristóbal Halffter is Spain’s most significant contemporary composer, and his powerful new opera Schachnovelle, now running at Kiel Opera House, is based on Zweig’s 1942 novella of that name....
...The first film, based on a Cormac McCarthy novella, is James Franco’s second feature after his Faulkner adaptation As I Lay Dying. That died in Cannes, this dies in Venice....
...Me and You, by Niccolò Ammaniti, translated by Kylee Doust, Canongate, RRP£10, 160 pages Niccolò Ammaniti’s affecting novella tells the story of 14-year-old Lorenzo Cuni....
...Bandleader Wynton Marsalis, cerebral rockers Wilco and veteran soul singer Etta James join hundreds of local jazz, blues, R&B and zydeco acts performing across 12 stages just outside the city’s fabled French...
...He reckoned to be able to write 15,000 words a day and used to take a long weekend to turn out a fantasy novella....
...Much of this mystery’s action is recounted in the drawing-room, which recalls the dramatic investigation conducted in a single room by the quietly probing detective in J.B....
...“Not always in the right order, but Mr B condensed it so well.” His Don is an icon of tormented innocence and devotion, whose skewed idealism “comes across in the desperateness of the choreography”....
...From a country rent by violence came Lovers and Strangers (Bloomsbury £14.99), two novellas about betrayal, salvaged love and forgiveness by Israel’s David Grossman....
...KILLING MR LEBANON: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and Its Impact on the Middle East by Nicholas Blanford I.B....
...13• Who wrote the ghostly novella The Turn of the Screw?...
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