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...Barbara Kingsolver Author by Ann Patchett Barbara Kingsolver has been reminding readers to open our eyes for a long time: open our eyes to the crisis of the planet, to poverty, to the miracles of food and farms...
...Etiquette dictates that dukes should be addressed as “Your Grace”. He won’t have it. “‘Your Grace’ is just absurd....
...Country homes fetching between €1m and €2m are now attracting two types of buyers, says Harriet Grant, head of country houses, farms and estates at Savills Ireland....
...Bell is honest about the challenges her disability has posed but finds grace in even the worst setbacks....
...Down on the Farm in May 1939 with the question: “Does sheep dipping make good television entertainment?”...
...and Egan was not only co-hosting a supper with her husband, the theatre director David Herskovits, at their Brooklyn home, but she was also about to take their two young sons to a “little off-the-grid farm...
...FASHION Grace: A Memoir, by Grace Coddington, Chatto & Windus, RRP£25 The long-awaited autobiography of the Vogue fashion editor-turned-folk hero....
...Non-farm payrolls rose by 39,000, far below the 150,000 extra jobs that were expected to have been added in November....
...A single-track road then takes you down to Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott’s riverside mansion, and the way continues along the banks of the Tweed into Melrose....
...Some questioned if “Ossie” had tried to usurp Walter Kielholz, Credit Suisse’s well-connected chairman, but had been shunned by the board....
...Dan Archer was the paragon of listen-to-Whitehall virtue, to be contrasted with the yokel Walter Gabriel – a comic voice of rural backwardness....
...He had these at home when he made Rat and the Beanstalk and Walter Goes Fishing in his parents’ loft, circa 1971. Neither won an Oscar....
...Another test concerns the treatment of love: here Robertson is not always so sure of touch, but he possesses a lyrical grace and power matched by few. COLLECTED POEMS by C.K....
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