Hints and tips:
...“It is four o’clock in the afternoon of my 52nd birthday,” Mackay writes in the final chapter of Jacob’s Ladder. “Outside my door the lavender is in blossom. Hopefully in an hour I will be dead....
...March 7 to 16; further information and tickets here ‘Les Étoiles’, Sala Santa Cecilia A ballet gala featuring a dazzling array of stars from major dance companies around the globe, such as Svetlana Zakharova...
...The Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich lauds him for exposing how “we have not gotten over and made sense of the Stalin period”....
...asks Sarah O’Connor....
...Anna Rose O‘Sullivan showed plenty of attack in her machine-stitch footwork and drill-bit pirouettes....
...Copyright © Svetlana Alexievich...
...Claire Messud Author of ‘The Woman Upstairs’ One of the most powerful and resonant books I’ve read this year is Edna O’Brien’s haunting novel The Little Red Chairs (Faber)....
...“They can’t walk to the local cinema with their families so the only places where they can relax and unwind are in their properties,” says Stephen O’Kane of Savills....
...Mr Modiano was a surprise winner in a field that included Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami and the Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich....
...O’Brien recounts the story with enormous verve....
...Svetlana Alliluyeva, as she was originally called, lived a remarkable life during a turbulent time, as David Lane’s play explores....
...* Justine Henin-Hardenne collected her second claycourt title in a month when she defeated Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova 3-6 6-2 7-5 to win the Warsaw WTA event....
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