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...Full marks to Sarah Ogilvie for crafting an opening sentence guaranteed to grab those of us obsessed with books, language and mystery....
...Medici Florence has yielded many fictional frescoes, from George Eliot’s Romola to Sarah Dunant’s The Birth of Venus....
...Additional reporting by Jonathan Eley, Delphine Strauss, Gill Plimmer, Philip Georgiadis and Sarah Neville...
...The best books I’ve read in the past year include Wild Flowers by Sarah Raven....
...Her husband Dayton (Charles Browning) enters with a basket of silverware, and Beverly reproaches him for bringing the wrong knives and forks, then makes up for it with a bit of light cuddling....
...In her early twenties she fell for the dashing Frederick “Boy” Browning, a senior officer in the British army, thereafter treasurer to the Duke of Edinburgh; they married in 1932 and had three children....
...Cut to Rattigan and it’s the master who hasn’t quite got what it takes to play the game in Angus Jackson’s subtly staged revival of The Browning Version....
...“This is not the end,” said Sarah Phillips, a Yemen expert at the University of Sydney. “The terms that were agreed don’t even come close to what protesters have called for.”...
...And then we see him at the height of his success, turning out timeless works such as The Winslow Boy, The Browning Version, Separate Tables and The Deep Blue Sea....
...And school plays often score top grades – from Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version to more recent hits such as Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, Simon Stephens’ Punk Rock and David Eldridge’s Under the...
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