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...The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry, Riverrun £18.99, 304 pages Rebecca Abrams is the author of ‘Touching Distance’ (Picador) Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...One photograph shows Hardy’s daughter joyfully bounding through a field in front of a herd of grazing cows. “The cows are her audience,” says Hardy, “even though no performance was intended.”...
...A classy pair for it is the new Daphne odora Rebecca, a bit taller than the better-known gold-leaved variety but just as sweetly scented and with a wider gold edge to each leaf....
...The pigs are calm, bristly and hardy enough to live outside year round....
...“It is potentially vast,” says Rebecca Palmer, a wine buyer at Corney & Barrow, a London merchant founded before the French revolution that imports fine EU wines, including DRC....
...New technologies and their effects on how we live have long proved an inspiration for writers: whether it was Thomas Hardy and the industrial revolution, or Mary Shelley and electricity....
...They are hardy and yield delicious small fruit that little hands will enjoy foraging for Golden garlic: somewhere between wild garlic and spring onions, these plants grow easily....
...Then there was the weird one down in Hardy country that looked like the marriage might not last as long as the wedding....
...Rebecca O’Keeffe, head of investment at Interactive Investor, describes the announcement as a “significant blow” for the sector....
...Noonday, by Pat Barker, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99, 272 pages Rebecca Abrams is the author of ‘Touching Distance’ (Picador) Photograph: Bert Hardy/Getty...
...Photographs: Rebecca Lupton; Christopher Furlong/360; Craven Dunill Jackfield; V&A/DeMorgan...
...Maugham, Jerome K Jerome and Thomas Hardy....
...Some of my most hilarious memories are visits to the garden of Hardy Amies, the Queen’s dress designer....
...Winning pieces – including a gold leather ruffle neckpiece by Rebecca Howarth, a pendant and earrings by Rhianne Hutchison and a silver necklace by Carol Docherty – will all go on show at the exhibition....
...I wish they would bring with them plants of his spectacular scarlet-red Clematis Rebecca, a new variety which will show up in any muddle....
...Thomas Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes, and Rebecca Solnit’s Wanderlust: A History of Walking. When did you know you were going to be a writer?...
...Forty of these are now on show in Shaw’s mid-career retrospective at Baltic; the title, The Sly and Unseen Day, is a quote from Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles about that unknown moment when we...
...Rebecca Osei-Baidoo, women’s wear buyer at London boutique Browns, believes this will be a popular way of interpreting the trend....
...This year, we will be seeing the new intense red Rebecca for the first time at Chelsea....
...Rebecca Harding, an expert on enterprise at the London Business School, begs to differ. “Business really was a dirty word in British education....
...TAKE THE HIGH ROAD ■ “Off-Road in Oman” by Heiner Klein & Rebecca Brickson (Motivate Publishing, Dubai) is an extremely useful guide to the region’s routes, though it needs updating....
...Irrespective of their plans to pay off their mortgage, Hardy cautions that the Hatfields mustn’t misjudge the costs of having children....
...Hardy agrees, adding that given Lauren and Susan's low tolerance to risk, they may wish to consider the slightly different ‘manager of managers' approach....
...Hardy says that the Van Ordens should also make provisions to pay off their £450,000 interest-only mortgage....
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