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...And then there’s the Gad’s Hill Place bonfire in September 1860, where Charles Dickens burnt 20 years’ worth of papers, emptying basket upon basket of correspondence into the flames....
...I went to see a musical version of a Charles Dickens book called Our Mutual Friend. This was called London Tide, and oh, dear, it wasn’t good. I’m very short....
...I’m not sure our efforts did much for the drinks, but it was roundly agreed to be a five-star performance....
...The style is so open to pastiche that I’m surprised there isn’t an online tool that turns all speeches into Guy Ritchie dialogue....
...The event covers more than 27,000sq m with carnival rides, tree-light shows and a simulated blizzard....
...“I’m not seeing significant net cost reductions yet in our food businesses,” said Weston....
...August Blue by Deborah Levy (Hamish Hamilton/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) A virtuoso pianist named Elsa M Anderson skitters around Europe — shadowed all the while by her mysterious doppelgänger — after a...
...Pay them a £1 to £3 entrance fee per person and not a penny more, and they will give you an answer sheet (there are also, I’m told, app-based pub quizzes; the less said about those the better)....
...His New York Times obituary descibes the rooms as ressembling “Hogarth paintings, Dickens stage sets and a three-dimensional Beatrix Potter drawing....
...His interest is anthropological and reportorial — more Charles Dickens than Virginia Woolf....
...“I knew what I wanted, but I’m not an interior designer....
...He promises that “I’m not scared of dying at all. No. I’m scared of having pain.”...
...When he and his actor-producer wife Rita Wilson caught Covid-19 in March 2020, their diagnosis was breaking news across television channels throughout the world....
...Dickens did it too: fake books on his shelves included Cats’ Lives in nine volumes. The others were even less funny....
...Certainly, there’s star wattage here: Tom Hanks and his Greek-American wife Rita Wilson are longtime homeowners....
...On the red carpet in February, Charli XCX wore a transparent Ludovic de Saint Sernin dress to the Brit Awards; Rita Ora went braless on the Alaïa front row as did Florence Pugh at Valentino’s July haute...
...Matt — I’m sure somebody already suggested Andrew Wylie in the Guardian?...
...Rita Vásquez, managing editor of the newspaper La Prensa, sees it differently. “This government seems to have divorced from China,” she says....
...It delivered essential practical tips to help women — too often held back in their careers by failing to speak in public, so I’m hoping the sequel will be equally brilliant....
...Best of all: I’m the only one who wants to eat them. Ortiz anchovies, £5.40, brindisa.com....
...Later, because he taught them, he read the English classics, starting with Hardy and Dickens. He also began to write....
...I seize on each new batch in the way I imagine Charles Dickens fans rushed to read new instalments of The Pickwick Papers....
...Legal consulting firm Montresor Legal has hired Roger Barron, most recently Paul Hastings’ global vice-chair of M&A, and Freddie Lawson, a director at legal search firm Fox Rodney, as a senior adviser and...
...Rita Vas-Barna, balneologist and head of treatments at Héviz, tells me that the waters’ power is held in the combination of their heat, chemicals and hydrostatic pressure....
...But I’m performing myself. I’m performing a version of myself that’s not acutely introverted.” She catches herself. “I don’t mean to sound ungrateful.”...
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