Hints and tips:
...More pointedly political is the opening track “Don’t Let Them”, with Tess Hirst singing “Oh Lord, don’t let them shoot us!”...
...I want a total flight of fancy, along the lines of Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill. So there it is: faux-marble, black metal and wedding cakes. You’re welcome. As for what’s naff?...
...The Shape of Night by Tess Gerritsen (Bantam, RRP£20) has its troubled food writer heroine discovering that she is not alone in an isolated house on a hill; it’s a clever contemporary spin on the Gothic...
...The challenges facing young people are set to get worse, however, with lawmakers on Capitol Hill struggling to reach an agreement to stop student loan rates from doubling in July....
...Only a few years ago, it was perceived as a bit of a backwater – a county of strong cider and straw-chewing yokels, which only entered people’s consciousness when they read Tess of the D’Urbervilles....
...“I know I can do this …I won’t let you down …You won’t regret it”: surprise, surprise, Ali can do it, she doesn’t let Tess down and Tess doesn’t regret it....
...Forty of these are now on show in Shaw’s mid-career retrospective at Baltic; the title, The Sly and Unseen Day, is a quote from Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles about that unknown moment when we...
...Far From the Madding Crowd, while lacking the tragic grandeur of Tess, Jude or The Woodlanders, is the first novel to refer to Wessex by name....
...There are, of course, some disadvantages to the place, as businesswoman Tess Hickson discovered....
...As soon as Emi comes through the front door I get: “Dad, this house stinks of wood smoke and of Megan and Tess.”...
...Tess Daly was there, co-presenter of television’s Strictly Come Dancing. Welsh songbird Charlotte Church was a guest once too, accompanied by her dashing partner, the rugby player Gavin Henson....
...Similarly, the character Maureen O’Donnell, introduced in Garnet Hill, Denise Mina’s award-winning first novel, speaks to women’s experiences in a refreshingly realistic way....
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