Hints and tips:
...He knows that even if he worked for 10,000 hours with his drawing teacher Jacob Collins — they meet because they have kids at the same school — he’ll never be a Leonardo or a Michelangelo....
...Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power by Erica Benner (Allen Lane)A political philosopher explores the flaws and weaknesses of people power in a world defined by competition, wealth...
...The first strikes sparks off the careers of the stars from the late 1960s: it opens with a home demo from Shirley Collins and Davy Graham, recorded in 1964, and includes an eerie field recording from her...
...Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread, by Michiko Kakutani, William Collins, RRP£16.99, 304 pages Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption, by Robert McCrum, Picador, RRP£14.99, 382 pages...
...But the real recruiting sergeant has been whoever scrapped the rule requiring volunteers to be as fit as full-time constables....
...It is written from the point of view of young Erica, barely 18 years old, and trying to fit in amongst this particular crowd....
...Tales of the Troubled Dead: Ghost Stories in Cultural History, by Catherine Belsey, Edinburgh University Press, RRP£14.99, 288 pages Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country, by Edward Parnell, William Collins...
...The law, in the shape of local bobby Sergeant Williams (Karl Haynes), turns a blind eye — in fact, furnished with a glass or two of rum by the astute Pearl, he’s rather taken by the whole affair....
...Two other officers, PC Alex Way and PC Alex Collins, also attended to the Skripals on the bench at the Maltings but do not appear to have had any health issues....
...neil.collins@ft.com...
...Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge, by Erica Wagner, Bloomsbury, RRP£20/$28 How Washington Roebling oversaw the creation of a New York landmark....
...As a child, Summerscale got her lurid kicks from the sprawl and drama of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins....
...Extracted from ‘The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth’ by Tom Burgis, published by William Collins on February 26 (and in the US by Public Affairs...
...Moreover, Captain McTurk, the detective who unravels the complexity of the crimes in this story, is very much in the same mould as Sergeant Cuff in Collins’ The Moonstone....
...It is a perfect study in articulated stiffness and melodiously portentous locution, a hybrid – sign him up now for Conan Doyle and Wilkie Collins – of Inspector Lestrade and Sergeant Cuff....
...Sergeant Plod was even questioning a Mr Blair about it the other day. I bet only deceased Indian steel magnates and defrocked colonial media moguls are eventually implicated....
...When police sergeant Paul Speak retires in August, he plans to supplement his pension by trading in boxing memorabilia....
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