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...Long Island by Colm Tóibín (Picador)Was Eilis Lacey right to settle as she did, or could her life have taken another turn?...
...My secondary-school art teacher, Steve Barnsley. He provided tons of validation and encouragement. In terms of music, I’m self-taught — a long, slow process. I could have done with a mentor....
...His life story was the subject of a film in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series. He was appointed MBE for services to literature in 2008. What was your childhood or earliest ambition? To be a footballer....
...And there’s been a whole list of others: [coaches] Joe Shaw, Alex Sanderson, Steve Borthwick. Richard Hill has been great. How physically fit are you? I like to think I’m pretty fit!...
...Martin Compston, 35, is known for his portrayal of detective sergeant Steve Arnott in the BBC series Line of Duty. He made his first film appearance in 2002, in Ken Loach’s Sweet Sixteen....
...I feel really lucky that I play music with my husband, so when I’m touring, I’m with Steve [Brown] and with my dear mum, who comes along to help look after my daughter....
...Monty Mythen, Steve Humphries and John Martin at UCL. Mike Allen, my secondary school English teacher. Screenwriter Geoff Case gave me a leg-up, as did Sophie Balhetchet at World Productions....
...Turner, actor Radio £500,000 - £550,000 Steve Wright, presenter£400,000 - £450,000 Nicky Campbell, presenter£350,000 - £400,000 Vanessa Feltz, presenter, Nicholas Grimshaw, presenter, Simon Mayo, presenter...
...She was brought to me by [record producer] Steve Greenberg, when I was very young and didn’t know what I was doing. She taught me for ages, she really guided me. How physically fit are you?...
...I really had no idea I would be able to have this experience, meet these amazing composers – I didn’t even think I would get to meet Steve Reich, let alone have him write me a world premiere....
...Steve Brown, the producer on my first record, and great songwriters like PF Sloan, Jimmy Webb and Stephen Bishop. How physically fit are you? I don’t know!...
...Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty, by Robert Lacey, Harper, RRP£20/RRP$29.99 A biography of the super-agent who built the Ford model empire, Lacey’s book provides a fascinating insight...
...●Psigma Investment Management has hired Nick Lacey as a business development director from Quilter Cheviot, the UK wealth management company....
...Steve Strange, who ran the Blitz nightclub, had a day job in a shop called PX in Endell Street: the basement was free, so within a year I had my own little hat shop in Covent Garden....
...● Schroders has hired Mark Lacey as a co-fund manager to work alongside John Coyle on its global energy and small-cap energy funds, from Mercuria, the commodities trader....
...Photographers: Tessa Bunney, UK Josephine Dvorken, USA Maja Fink, Sweden Alexi Hobbs, Canada Jamie Kingham, USA Kalpesh Lathigra, UK Spencer Lowell, USA Dominic Nahr, Kenya Max Sher, Russia Steve...
...An Object of Beauty, by Steve Martin, Weidenfeld RRP£16.99, 295 pages Lacey Yeagar would sell her own grandmother. And, in the course of this romp through New York’s pre-crash art world, she does....
...Three Diamonds and a Donkey , by Josh Lacey, Marion Lloyd Books RRP£5.99 A third outing for the Amis/Fitzroy clan, known as the Misfitz for short....
...Brooklyn By Colm Tóibín Viking £17.99, 256 pages Eilis Lacey leaves behind her quiet life in County Wexford and travels to Brooklyn in search of better opportunities, in Tóibín’s sixth novel....
...Brooklyn By Colm Tóibín Viking, £17.99 In Tóibín’s sixth novel, Eilis Lacey leaves behind her quiet life in County Wexford and goes to Brooklyn in search of opportunities....
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