Hints and tips:
...In my mind, as my thoughts peter out, is a mixture of Caliban telling me not to be afeard, the carriage is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not, and Paul Simon reminding me...
...The Lower River, by Paul Theroux, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99, 336 pages Ellis Hock is the sort of small-time American businessman familiar from the novels of Philip Roth....
...Rumours about who will perform at the ceremony have ranged from Sir Paul McCartney to the Spice Girls....
...“He was very taken by the impact and decay of bell sound, and rationalised the musical idea into a workable system,” says Paul Hillier, Pärt’s biographer and leading choral conductor....
...Patricia Risley and Toby Spence couldn’t be better as the lovers, and William Ferguson excels in delivering Caliban’s high-lying lines....
...In Spindrift (1993) he is the Caliban washed up among folk who, at first suspicious and unwelcoming, eventually accept him....
...Not the most soothing statistics during the holiday season, but the starting point for Paul Ormerod’s Why Most Things Fail (Faber £12.99)....
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