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...Film references are not the only element: also present are nods to Christie, Dumas, Daphne du Maurier and Dickens....
...Similarly, the latest in Sophie Hannah’s Agatha Christie continuations works on the basis of our sympathetic identification with Inspector Edward Catchpool, forever doing his best to keep up with his clever...
...Designers Sophie Bille Brahe, Robinson Pelham and Cece Jewellery all report growth in Japan....
...Christie’s Highlights from the oeuvre of Studio Ymer&Malta will be exhibited at the auctioneers on Avenue Matignon....
...As a character in Rooftoppers remarks of its heroine Sophie, “She is bright enough to start a forest fire.”...
...So I was intrigued when I saw that Rollitt, Sophie Ashby and several other designers whose work I admire were now offering hourly consultations over video chat....
...Now the work is being auctioned as part of Christie’s Modern British & Irish Art Evening Sale (estimate, £5mn to £8mn) with all proceeds benefiting The Players Foundation, a charity supporting footballers...
...Sophie Okonedo appears onstage and off as a worldly blues siren, one of several departures from Christie and the previous 1978 film adaptation. For now, Poirot keeps shtum....
...Lara Wardle worked for Phillips and Christie’s auction houses before joining the foundation to oversee the Jerwood Collection....
...That’s according to what we’ve seen, what sources have told us and a spreadsheet, a porn spreadsheet, to be exact, made by a performer called Sophie Ladder....
...Christie’s is holding a sale of 86 Fabergé pieces including jewellery in London on November 29....
...Ian Fleming’s 18ct-gold-plated c1952 Royal Quiet Deluxe (considered “the height of vulgarity” by his literary acquaintances) became the world’s most expensive when it sold at Christie’s for £55,750 in 1995...
...Out of Body (2015), depicting two female figures, was sold by Christie’s in 2019 for £371,250 – over five times its high estimate – while Princess (2017) fetched £435,000 at Phillips last year....
...“It seduced Lady Di,” adds Vestiaire co-founder Sophie Hersan. Just as it still seduces us....
...A prime example of the former is Haven’t They Grown by Sophie Hannah (Hodder, RRP£16.99)....
...“Of course, we renamed the ‘Burning Man’ ‘Burning Mag’, in Magnus’s honour,” says Fiennes, whose other famous siblings include the actors Ralph and Joseph, and documentary filmmaker Sophie....
...“For our process, the image [of the watch] is just the first level,” explains Lee Bingle, associate vice-president of corporate communications for Christie’s Asia, an auctioneer....
...Her lawyer, Anne-Sophie Nardon, described the latest development as “very good news” for her client....
...Sophie Hannah was born in 1971 in Manchester, where she also studied English and American literature at university. She now lives in Cambridge, where she is a fellow commoner of Lucy Cavendish College....
...Sophie Hannah, 44, has published five collections of poetry....
...Has Sophie Hannah’s recent move into Agatha Christie-style ventriloquism — in the shape of last year’s Poirot adventure, The Monogram Murders — affected her narrative voice?...
...However, three years ago, Sophie Mizrahi-Rubel, whose great-uncles founded the jewellery house, relaunched the brand after discovering a trunkful of forgotten drawings, photographs and newspaper clippings...
...Forty years after the judge in the Rothko case decided that each of the canvases sold to Marlborough was worth at least $90,000, Christie’s sold Rothko’s “No. 10” for $82m ($86.9m with fees) in a week when...
...Les Arts Florissants, under the direction of William Christie, performed with warmth and an immaculate poise, as we have come to expect from this ensemble....
...The novel, featuring Hercule Poirot, has been written by Sophie Hannah and authorised by Agatha Christie Ltd, the company that holds rights to most of the author’s work....
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