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...She learnt to play the piano after her grandmother saved up enough S&H Green Stamps to buy her an instrument in the S&H store. “I have tons of hobbies,” Cox continues....
...The Marina was once used to unload coal and timber from cargo ships — as well as, unusually, circus animals and ice....
...It’s a risky move for a writer who, from 2007’s There Are Little Kingdoms to last year’s Booker-longlisted novel Night Boat to Tangier, has built a fearsome reputation for quick, deadpan, darkly comic prose...
...I wish we hadn’t. Their horns had been hacked off by poachers. Their bloated carcasses were crawling with flies and maggots....
...Jean Urquhart, sometime politician, widow of the actor Robert, has created a sanctuary here....
...A spectacular mash-up of knights, Roman legionaries and magical animals....
...Rational and far-sighted policy makers would wish to eliminate such possibilities. Yet if we are to achieve that goal, we need to act now....
...But what KP2’s story best illustrates is a further dilemma of taking animals into our care....
...river, which runs through the heart of Colombia....
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