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...Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain by Richard Vinen, Allen Lane £25, 592 pages Jonathan Coe’s new novel ‘Bournville’ will be published by Viking in November Join our online book...
...I found the entrance off to the left of the Ma-10, a country lane winding down through groves of ancient olives to a grand old Mallorcan mansion sitting prettily above its own gently curving bay....
...The commission asked member states to designate “green lane” border crossings open to all freight vehicles, where checks and health screening should take no more than 15 minutes....
...The presumed favourite to follow Mr Lane was Sharon Donnery, deputy governor....
...“The capital controls have had a chilling effect,” Mario Giannini, chief executive of $330bn alternative investment manager Hamilton Lane, told the FT earlier this year....
...Edgar Hoover became the first FBI chief in 1935 has had a political résumé....
...For humans, among other things, ripening involves awareness of mortality, that, as Edgar puts it to his blind father near the end of King Lear, “men must endure/ Their going hence, even as their coming hither...
...… Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels, by Christopher Lloyd, Thames & Hudson, RRP£24.95/ J Paul Getty Museum, RRP$39.95 “Drawing has come back again!” announced Gauguin on seeing Degas’s sketches....
...The Soul of the Marionette is a ratatouille: Gray cooks up a succession of separate ideas and images from (among others) Heinrich von Kleist, Bruno Schulz, Ray Kurzweil, Giacomo Leopardi, Mary Shelley, Edgar...
...He sold this seminal painting to the Irish dealer Hugh Lane in 1906....
...Also in the grounds is a private four-lane bowling alley. Why In 1938, legendary oil tycoon HL Hunt bought the property for his family....
...La Folie Baudelaire, by Roberto Calasso, Allen Lane RRP£35/Farrar, Straus and Giroux RRP$35, 352 pages In 1873, the painter Edouard Manet set himself a near-impossible task....
...Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations, by Charles Nicholl, Allen Lane, RRP£20, 318 pages Charles Nicholl, our finest literary and historical detective, is drawn to subjects of dark human concern and puzzlement...
...Mr Sharma had previously run the $4bn hedge fund Old Lane Partners with Mr Pandit....
...At the start of this year, Doug Morris was running Vivendi’s Universal Music, Rolf Schmidt-Holtz was at the helm of Sony Music, Edgar Bronfman Jr was chairman and chief executive of a quoted Warner Music...
...He remained a keen follower of fencing and motor racing, cutting a dash in the country lanes around his home in his 1937 MG TA sports car....
...If African-Americans revered King as the apostle of black liberation, the FBI supremo J Edgar Hoover derided him as a fake Moses figure bent on causing havoc....
...Success story: Today the classic-with-a-twist designs are available in 27 countries, with stockists including Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Browns and Lane Crawford....
...For a while it was always Maytime in Mayfair and spring in Park Lane....
...The last comparable gifts to the galleries were the Sir Hugh Lane bequest of 39 important paintings to the National Gallery in 1915, and the C....
...Four rooms of sumptuous decorative work explore how English art publishers such as John Lane and the Vale Press attracted illustrators of genius from across Europe....
...And according to Prof Wiseman and the British Council – not just your man in the Slow Lane – that is not good for people’s health....
...Robin Lane Fox is Reader in Ancient History at Oxford University....
...PARALLEL WORLDS: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos by Michio Kaku Allen Lane £20, 432 pages Gravity, Michio Kaku points out in Parallel Worlds, is weak: your comb, charged...
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