Hints and tips:
...A worn-out Macmillan looked increasingly ill-equipped to deal with a changing world, not least because “the only television at Birch Grove, his home in Sussex, was in the servants’ hall”....
...The podcast that struck me recently was Neri Oxman’s TED talk. She’s an amazing designer and architect, and a professor at MIT....
...At this time of year, Travers would usually be sourcing unusual citrus varieties in the groves around Lake Garda or sniffing the first strawberries in Nice....
...Towards the end of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, the governess-narrator and the housekeeper Mrs Grove find Flora, the errant young girl in their charge, by a lake....
...It was like eating a walk along a Danish beach, through wood groves and forest clearings....
...also intriguing, given what I know about Harrelson’s longstanding belief in environmentalism (in 1996 he was arrested for scaling the Golden Gate Bridge to protest against the destruction of a Redwood grove...
...The Explosion Chronicles , by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas, Chatto & Windus, RRP£14.99/Grove Press, RRP$26 In this absurdist satire of China’s rapid urbanisation, the ancient village of Explosion...
...The Refugees, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Corsair, RRP£12.99/Grove Press, RRP$25 Stories on the migrant experience by the author of The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction....
...Show Dry, 173 Westbourne Grove, London W11 (0333-006 8888)....
...Poet Ted Hughes spotted the early promise in the local property market....
...But I stayed there last year, during the Ted Global conference, and the elegance of Ted seemed to magic it into the last word in comfort and style. Impressed, I took my wife there three months later....
...Ted Eliopoulos, the fund’s chief investment officer, said too much effort was expended for too little exposure for a $300bn fund....
...” … Hold Your Own, by Kate Tempest, Picador Poetry, RRP£9.99 Tempest follows her Ted Hughes Prize-winning Brand New Ancients with a bold retelling of the myth of Tiresias....
...Bush, the former Republican president, and Karl Rove, his Svengali, were for immigration reform, and so were Bill Gates and Andy Grove, the tech entrepreneurs....
...Jonathan Groves, senior vice president, captive solutions, at Marsh, says 74 per cent of FTSE 100 companies have captives....
...They took key staff with them, including Andy Grove, a future Intel chief executive....
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