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...If you can manage the steep, sinuous ascent, you can pick your way through the ruins of the warden’s house, where the odd table lays toppled on the floor stones and climbing vines lace across the ceilings...
...If you’re going to read it, you will probably appreciate it more if you read The Warden first. I was always a bit sceptical about reading a series of novels with a clerical setting. No more....
...Not only were his novels page-turners, they also left you feeling that little bit cleverer....
...This cannot be said of a range of other occupations, from surgeons to traffic wardens....
...“Turner is in some ways the obvious choice, but I like Constable better because there is something more ordinary about his pictures....
...“Topsy” Turner, holder of most of the club’s records, first played at the club in 1948, hanging up his bat just a decade or so ago....
...Every town in the country had its publicly displayed groups of militiamen, wardens of orphanages and old people’s homes, syndics of the men of the clothiers guild …“The Night Watch” might be seen now as...
...Page turner A trading update from Michael Page gives grounds for bullishness about two much-denigrated institutions – the middle manager and UK plc....
...Instead, Mr Edyvean has a job with the council and lives in a one-bed flat in a warden-assisted complex. He uses his budget to rent that and hire a carer for 22 hours a week to help him shop and cook....
...They have given a bear the Turner Prize for art. It is rubbish. So is Tracey Emin. And nowadays footballers earn more than writers. It does alarm me.”...
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