Hints and tips:
...Rebecca Banatvala brings a lovely, open zeal to Catherine, combining sweet naivety with a stout sense of her own worth....
...But Alipoor’s piece (co-written with Chris Thorpe) sets out to demonstrate the opposite....
...It weaves in echoes of Howards End, Rebecca, Vanity Fair and The Talented Mr Ripley....
...Photographs: Rebecca Lupton...
...Matthew Engel is an FT columnist Photographs: Ed Thorpe; Geo Atlas; Getty...
...Penelope, by Rebecca Harrington, Virago, RRP£14.99, 304 pages Rebecca Harrington’s debut tells the story of Penelope O’Shaunessy, a freshman at Harvard....
...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?...
...Matisse: In Search of True Painting, edited by Dorthe Aagesen and Rebecca Rabinow, Yale University Press, RRP£35 One cannot have too many books on Matisse....
...Thorpe retired, and ‘Hoogie’ is concentrating on what he says is his speciality, the 100 free style....
...America’s Rebecca Soni took silver with 1.06.73, and Mirna Jukic of Austria took bronze, with 1.07.34. The US cavalry charge was led, inevitably, by Michael Phelps....
...Adam Thorpe’s 14 books include ‘Ulverton’ and ‘Between Each Breath’. His new novel, ‘The Standing Pool’, is published in June by Jonathan Cape....
...The British men’s 11 golds were all the brighter for seeing their Aussie rivals sunk in the absence of Ian Thorpe through illness and Grant Hackett following an operation....
...Paul Palmer was pretty much Britain’s solitary medal hope and he was toying with the 1,500m freestyle because he could not possibly win the 400m, his best event, against Ian Thorpe....
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