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...A Line in the Sand by Kevin Powers (Sceptre/Little, Brown) Powers, an award-winning American novelist who first came to notice with The Yellow Birds, served in the US army in Iraq....
...They are the Sunni descendants of indentured labourers brought in from Indonesia and Malaysia by a horror called Alexander Hare....
...We spent last Christmas in the unworldly peace of Siwa, swimming in hot springs, riding over sand dunes and, like Alexander, visiting the eerie temple of the oracle on its knob of rock overlooking the palm...
...Dior’s colour palette is similar, with suits in pink, sand and pistachio green (all colours inspired by Kim Jones’s beloved Charleston farmhouse, home of the Bloomsbury Set), while Alexander McQueen’s collection...
...with Local Works Studio to concoct wood stains and finishes using ingredients from the surroundings: linseed oil, rye flower and natural pigments for the green wood stain; clay from the soil mixed with sand...
...A light show illuminated the trio of pyramids that flank the Sphinx, as a phalanx of 75 models, one for each year of the house’s life, trekked through the sand in British designer Kim Jones’s latest menswear...
...Stay in SoCal’s “other” wine country The Santa Ynez Valley is still, despite a star turn many years ago in the Alexander Payne-directed film Sideways, a relatively off-the-radar destination for most people...
...There’s a lovely beach with gentle sand into the river, and my three daughters learned to swim in the Thames....
...The new look, unveiled on Thursday, was meant to evoke the soothing hue of a white sand beach at golden hour....
...Ecoalf recycled polyester skirt, £275 Alexander McQueen recycled polyester coat, £3,990. Ariat leather and recycled rubber boots (just seen), £230. Hermès vintage silk scarf, £198, resee.com....
...“We’re moving into a climate regime without any historical precedent,” says Alexander Lees, a reader in biodiversity at Manchester Metropolitan University....
...Speaking of shoes, it wasn’t the snub-toed trainers and rubber gumboots at Jonathan Anderson’s Loewe show that I remembered, but the models who trod barefoot through sand — which, depending on your outlook...
...Bays of aquamarine waters and pristine white sand beaches reminiscent of the Caribbean persuaded Andrew Bignell and his wife Merlyn to buy a home in Sardinia two years ago....
...Highlights include the miso cucumber with seaweed caviar and the black sangohachi aubergine – both are well worth getting lost for. cookiescream.com Alexander Tyndall Café Gratitude, Los Angeles As someone...
...Borodai, who previously led a Moscow-backed Donbas separatist government, adds: “Sometimes a sun-tanned, hopped-up Rudyard Kipling comes to read his romantic poetry about blood, dust and sand....
...The reliance of the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko and of Kazakhstan’s Tokayev on Russian support to cling on to power dilutes both countries’ sovereignty....
...Her latest series, Sand Sea (from about £1,177), beautifully captures stretches of the Namib Sand Sea....
...And, indeed, before Chalamet’s Paul leaves his home planet, he looks fit for an interstellar red carpet in a high-collared blazer that could be from Alexander McQueen or Bottega Veneta, as well as a dark...
...On a recent afternoon, a handful of tourists roamed the sprawling ruins of Perge, a 3,000-year-old archaeological site once ruled by Alexander the Great and graced with superb mosaics....
...Operators have repeatedly cautioned that shortages of everything from labour to sand prevent an immediate boost in production....
...In Namibia I walked the length of the Skeleton Coast, after lessons among the boulders and sands from wandering Himba pastoralists....
...Nor, arguably, has a central bank, given that the Bahamas sand dollar is a tiddler....
...Sarah Sands is chair of Bright Blue and a board director at Hawthorn Advisors....
...Alexander Pearce, analyst at BMO Capital Markets, said Rio’s “negative guidance tweaks” could help support “already elevated” iron ore prices, currently at $222 a tonne....
...Necker is a self-styled oasis of “barefoot luxury”, but in the 1960s it was so inhospitable that when journalist Andrew Alexander and photographer Don McCullin tried to survive on it, Robinson Crusoe-style...
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