Hints and tips:
...With a work colleague called Jimmy, he bought a van and set off to take aid to the former Yugoslavia....
...Nicolas Freeling set his Van der Valk detective stories in Amsterdam half a century ago, but these are largely forgotten today....
...In a non-terror related attack on Saturday, three people were killed when a van drove into a crowd in the German town of Münster....
...‘Aladdin’, Prince Edward Theatre, London from May 27, aladdinthemusical.co.uk Photographs: Victoria Birkinshaw; Deen van Meer...
...“Entrepreneurship is in the DNA here,” says Natalie Brett, head of the London College of Communications, which counts Rankin and Jefferson Hack among its alumni....
...A disenchanted, alcoholic detective, there are shades of Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus about the troubled policeman....
...Meres lives in Edinburgh, near the rather more famous JK Rowling and Ian Rankin, both of whom I presume would be in the target range for the splendid Orangery....
...I love them fast-paced and pared-down and requiring enormous suspension of disbelief, like Child’s Jack Reacher books, and full of existential angst and intelligence, like Ian Rankin’s series, and Michael...
...But Van Dyck’s children are on an altogether different level of skill: charmingly informal and rapidly caught with considerable painterly delight....
...Two doors down is the novelist Ian Rankin and not far away is J.K. Rowling. The local papers nickname it Edinburgh’s rive gauche....
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