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...He read her “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” by Walt Whitman, as well as his own documentary novel, Strandings....
...In 2013, they bought a derelict, Grade II-listed building and outhouses at auction in the village of Thorncombe....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...William, the Prince of Wales recently decorated her with the Royal Victorian Order for services to his family....
...Highlights include a view of the Grand Canal in Venice by Canaletto (c1745, estimate in the region of $6mn), which hung in the entrance hall, and a pair of George II armchairs made by William and John Linnell...
...(ii) such a property wealth tax would lead to inefficiency in investment behaviour....
...Another surprise is a striking nude by Sir William Orpen, at Master paintings and drawings dealership Jean-Luc Baroni....
...Other objects with Paston provenances came to be owned by the Rothschilds, J Pierpont Morgan and William Randolph Hearst....
...Mount Street Hospital, Preston, Lancashire (Grade II, 1872, RW Hughes) Once home to the town’s “destitute girls”, the orphanage closed in 1954, and was later converted into a convalescent home....
...Trevor Williams, professor, University of Derby, TW consultancy Feel about the same as 12 months ago....
...Author Roland J Green addressed a primarily female audience: “The cultivation of flowers is an appropriate amusement for young ladies....
...Professor Trevor Williams, visiting professor, University of Derby Growth to slow to 1.5% or less....
...Karl Whitman, executive director at Berkeley, agrees, estimating that local properties are about half the price of like-for-like stock in southwest London....
...The reason is not hard to find: the war, in the words of Richard J Evans, an eminent British historian, was “the 20th century’s seminal catastrophe”....
...Stephen Williams, HSBC’s head of debt capital markets, Asia Pacific, said that banks were also issuing debt that conformed to the old Basel II rules to take advantage of lower costs ahead of the changeover...
...JAR Paris Vol II , by Pierre Genet and Joel Arthur Rosenthal, JAR Vol II, RRP$800 In 2003, Rosenthal published the limited edition 10lb-plus JAR Paris....
...CHILDREN’S BOOKS J Smith, by Fougasse, Walker Books, RRP£10, 152 pages A reproduction of a miniature book made in 1922 by the cartoonist Fougasse for inclusion in the library of Queen Mary’s Lutyens-designed...
...“We’re expecting at least five boats and that will be a record for a J Class event,” says David Pitman, secretary of the J Class Association....
...While back in 2001, the Stanley J Seeger collection “redefined the market” for St Ives artists Patrick Heron and Peter Lanyon....
...Winner of the 2009 Man Booker prize Stephenie Meyer Bestselling author of the Twilight vampire romance series Gail Rebuck Chairman and chief executive of the Random House Group J. K....
...An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War, by J Hoberman, The New Press, RRP$29.95, 408 pages This study of geopolitical anxiety in 1950s/1960s cinema is written by the critic...
...Gerard Dykstra and Partners were responsible for the latest J Class build, Hanuman, a replica of Sopwith’s Endeavour II, launched at the Royal Huisman shipyard in the Netherlands in March....
...The New York-based group said at the turn of the year that it would convert its $1.2bn (£727m, €854m) Steel Partners II fund into a holding company after receiving redemption requests for 38 per cent of...
...Gas-rich Qatar’s fund, for example, invested $1.8bn in Barclays last year, and also has stakes in J Sainsbury and the London Stock Exchange....
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
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