Hints and tips:
...Faulks has always written young women well — think of Anne in The Girl at the Lion d’Or or the heroine of Charlotte Gray — but Adam is impressively drawn, flawed yet possessing a moral centre that contrasts...
...The bitter narrator deliberately refuses to make polite conversation, despite the other’s desperate attempts: “I’d never in my life had another woman want me to like her so much....
...I’d rather read his novels than those of just about any other writer alive....
...Strafford’s relationship with his wife has fallen apart; Quirke is living with Phoebe, the daughter he’d abandoned as a child....
...As private sector R&D investment has fallen, the state has made up for it, and then some: Mui points out that “a lot of the elevated government investment in R&D was Covid-related, such as health research...
...“I sometimes think I’d just like to go and do things I love, like Formula One or horseracing — just do something completely different,” he added....
...All based in Preston, they have enjoyed “constant conversations for years and years”....
...In a review of his 2011 book The Unfinished Global Revolution, Peter Preston, former editor of the Guardian, called him “Lord Global”....
...I’d take a hard look at it as well. I took a hard look at it before I decided to run. And I feel good. I feel excited.”...
...Preston Llewellyn: No....
...“You’d think in the context of ‘levelling up’ the government might want to reassess,” said Peter Dowd, Bootle’s Labour MP, standing beneath the now-vacant Triad office block....
...Until Covid-19 arrived, he’d had no plans to leave Crouch End in north London, where he’d been for 25 years....
...But if I had made an album with “Across the Universe”, “Let It Be” and “Get Back” on it, I’d be pretty bloody happy, in all honesty.”...
...Meanwhile, Izzy has been pointing out some other curiosities on Twitter: We’d also add this, which Preston Byrne on Twitter pointed out: Satoshi as a risk factor, who’d have thought?...
...It brought in third party investors and was sold in 2009 to bring in more funding and critical mass to support the costs of R&D....
...The prime minister would never live it down if he wore shorts to the Houses of Parliament (though he’d probably quite like to) and you’d be unlikely to catch Andrew Bailey rocking around the Bank of England...
...Dido’s home would have had white walls daubed in red ochre patterns, she’d have climbed a ladder up to the rooftops because the houses of her neolithic town were connected by overhead roads, and she had...
...“When questioned, five out of 10 people thought I’d just played for the last time at Wimbledon, or committed suicide by walking into the sea with rocks in my cardigan.”...
...Buyers from the UK, Asia and the Middle East were offered “effortless” annual returns of 8-12 per cent if they bought student rooms in Stoke, Loughborough, Bradford, Preston, Leicester and Huddersfield....
...I’d also like to wish you and Swampians a happy new year. Swamp Notes will be back in a couple of weeks....
...In 2007, the Cannes Palme d’Or-winning Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days brought a thriller-like intensity to a strikingly similar narrative....
...“We are an upmarket food business and we’d come away from that a bit . . . we tried to play the same game as the big retailers.”...
...I’d also recommend The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape, £7.35) which is more historical....
...Larry is staying with his sister to sit shiva for his kindly, devout father, a man who’d “believed in Larry’s Larry-ness. He’d held sacred his son.” The old man died with one wish....
.... — Victoria Preston, author, London, UK A hidden West End gem A discreet but central spot in an unfashionable part of the West End, Aquavit London is a gem of a place....
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