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...Alexander McCall Smith Author of The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine (No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency) Rosemary Goring’s After Flodden introduced us to her talents as a historical novelist....
...Extracts from Montalbano mysteries by Andrea Camilleri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli (Picador) reproduced by kind permission of Macmillan...
...The Surprising Life of Constance Spry, by Sue Shephard, Macmillan £18.99, 256 pages, FT Bookshop price: £15.99 Constance Spry, the world’s most famous flower-arranger, died in 1960 but her influence lingers...
...An early highlight promises to be Paul McCreesh conducting the Gabrieli Consort in an English translation of Haydn’s choral masterpiece The Creation (July 18), with vocalists including Rosemary Joshua and...
...God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain By Rosemary Hill Penguin £30, 602 pages FT bookshop price: £24 Pugin was not a crusty ornamental Victorian; he was, this dazzling biography argues...
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