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...Utopia Avenue, his first novel since 2015’s Slade House, marks a departure from these sprawling and ambitious works....
...At first glance, Utopia Avenue is a much more traditional affair than Mitchell’s last two novels, the apocalyptic, time-travelling The Bone Clocks and its companion piece, Slade House....
...Outside an abandoned ice factory in Kalba, on the sandy Gulf of Oman, African men in wide-brimmed black hats wield oars beside a beached dhow, in a riveting ritual of remembrance....
...But look closer and even this enclave — home to a university, a convention centre and a fine sandy beach — is not immune to the malaise affecting the high street, with flagship stores abandoning their prime...
...Curators like Sandy Nairne at the ICA dared to put on a Robert Mapplethorpe show in 1983 (it got closed down, but not before it had opened a few eyes)....
...And who can possibly forget Slade’s “Wheels Ain’t Coming Down”, which occupied 60th place in the singles chart in 1981?...
...At art school in Brighton, then the Slade, Whiteread studied painting but, became, she says - with a sudden, spontaneously expansive wave of her hands across the table - “frustrated with the edges of the...
...Saccher Managing Director, Vispo Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover KG Rickie Seghal Managing Director, Transputec Computer Harry Sherrard Principal, Sherrards Employment Law Human Resources Michael Slade...
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