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...He offers not a mass trawl of Weidenfeld’s thousands of titles but selected episodes framed by 19 landmark books, from Nabokov’s censorship-busting Lolita to Antonia Fraser’s best-selling Mary, Queen of...
...During the show-stopping family Christmas in Bourne End, John’s prickly but put-upon mother Laura serves him his favourite dessert, Queen of Puddings....
...Throughout May; further information here The Word on the Street A book and magazine fair celebrating literacy and Canadian literature at Queen’s Park which typically dates place in May....
...The Jacqui console table features carved cut-out details finished in natural or ivory, while the black Boyd coffee table has a statement round pedestal....
...In 1620, two young English soldiers helped Elizabeth Stuart — Charles I’s sister, the legendary “Winter Queen” of Bohemia — to flee the Catholic armies who ousted her husband from his throne in Prague....
...Those in on the hoax at Modern Painters magazine, where Boyd was on the editorial board, included the musician David Bowie, who hosted a launch party while Boyd himself created Tate’s art....
...Stay for stories about the Queen’s fabled tight-fistedness, some ace cod psychology about “what’s going on with Harry” and notes on Prince Charles’s “rider” when staying with friends....
...However, a saga-like prologue has informed us that, around the year 1000, the Vikings of Vinland moved south into Central America, led by their warrior queen Freydis....
...“We’re both from Queens, we’re close to the same age, his mother is from Scotland like mine, his father is German-American like mine....
...Kehlmann lets the Winter Queen upstage even Tyll. She pleads in anterooms as the Peace of Westphalia brings the carnage to a close....
...Although the band fell apart, most of them turned up for sessions Pukwana recorded with Joe Boyd’s Witchseason Productions in 1968 and 1969....
...That hulking monument of French literature, Les Misérables owes a heavy debt to Queen Victoria’s Royal Mail. Lacroix needed Hugo’s high-minded doorstopper to be a smash....
...Street drugs lay an equally heavy curse on the “community of runaway Boricua queens”....
...Norma Cohen is the FT’s former demography correspondent and is a PhD candidate at Queen Mary University of London...
...“She came in like the Queen of Sheba, followed by her personal retinue. She did not even say hello.”...
...Lionel Shriver talks to Boyd Tonkin March 25, 12pm Weston Lecture Theatre, £13.50 The author of We Need to Talk about Kevin talks to literary critic Boyd Tonkin about her latest novel The Mandibles: A...
...Last year it agreed to pay up to £375m for Jackpotjoy, which is fronted by the queen of cockney sparrows Barbara Windsor and claims to be the UK's biggest bingo site....
...“Though the market is still strong in Queen’s Park, you have to say we’re hitting a saturation point at around £1,000 per sq ft,” says Winkworth’s Stewart Boyd....
...Franco Bassanini Former Chairman, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Mark Burgess Former Managing Director, Future Fund, Australia Hans Eichel Former Finance Minister, Germany Brigitte Granville Professor, Queen...
...Both structures back on to Georgian and Victorian terraces, Regent’s Canal and offbeat old pubs such as the Island Queen and the Narrow Boat, contrasting sharply with the area’s generally low-built environment...
...Mr Anand told analysts the Spirit board regarded Greene King paper as attractive as “the stuff with the Queen’s picture on”....
...A facsimile of a British pound note featuring a group portrait of Abba in place of the Queen....
...But his mother remarried Sir Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, the Queen’s trainer, and her son found something at which he could excel....
...Today, it seems, the Queen commands greater respect than politicians....
...The best thing about the gig was the drummer, Moses Boyd....
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