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...These leading players of the decade, who also included of course Ian McEwan, William Boyd, Alan Hollinghurst, Penelope Fitzgerald and Rose Tremain, were joined by startling talents that brought an essential...
...In Gangs of New York, Martin Scorsese made him Tammany Hall scoundrel William “Boss” Tweed. For Luhrmann, he was svengali Harold Zidler, owner of the Moulin Rouge....
...The house was last decorated in the ’70s, overseen by David, 5th Baron Harlech and the print-loving Pamela....
...The warren-like 17th-century building has played host to readings by authors ranging from Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs to Zadie Smith and Dave Eggers, while some claim James Joyce to be buried...
...Stockport; M McQuillan, Edinburgh Polymath 1,005: Mrs SM Fraser, Middlesbrough Crossword 16,057: G Dennis, Stratford-upon-Avon; Joanne Cooper, Fife; Andrew Anderson, Bangor Polymath 1,004: Caroline Wood...
...But most of it was woods. Reeds a metre and a half or two metres high further added to the mood of calm....
...Adam Beaumont CEO, aql Jasmine Whitbread Chief Executive, London First Mark Reynolds Chief Executive, Mace Professor Sir David Eastwood Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Birmingham John Joyce...
...William Dalrymple was the guest of Steppes Travel....
...Main photograph: Pamela Underhill Karaz...
...Writers like William Cowper, William Shenstone or Vita Sackville-West made fine gardens and gardened intensively in them, but nobody would rate them as first-class writers....
...John Winnard, director, William Santus & Co, maker of Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls. William Wisden, photographer....
...Nicholas Vaughan’s design achieves unity by fashioning a detailed boat and a cloistered square out of beige wood. Yet Gianni Schicchi is the most imaginative of the three....
...Pamela Geller, a feisty, 51-year-old rightwing blogger from a group called Stop Islamization of America, spoke next....
...But Hepworth has paintings by contemporary artist Peter Joyce for £650 and lissfineart.com is offering unframed drawings for as little as £100....
...James Joyce lived nearby as a child, and U2 singer Bono once owned the Martello tower....
...Ronnie: The Autobiography By Ronnie Wood Pan Macmillan £20, 358 pages FT bookshop price: £16 Roguish anecdotes tumble from Ronnie Wood’s autobiography: horseplay with Rod Stewart and Keith Richards, a wife-swapping...
...Joyce Ormiston, who has 10 cows and Highland ponies on a croft in Lochaber, sounds a lament for a dying culture....
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