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...Bayswater department store Whiteley’s was the centrepiece of one of London’s most fashionable neighbourhoods, a vast ocean liner of a building attracting the well-off and the well-read from across the capital: Conrad...
...Then pianist Conrad Tao come onstage, and the casual atmosphere galvanised into something unforgettable....
...So, having taken on provisions, we set off in this direction, stopping for our first night at the Conrad campground, next to an abandoned silver mine....
...A trio of businessmen who own the Catholic Herald, including publisher William Cash and luxury hotelier Rocco Forte, are locked in a stand-off against the Catholic Church over claims that the religious weekly...
...Current regulars include Kazuo Ishiguro, William Boyd, Lady Antonia Fraser and Andrew Marr. “Our members publish around 800 books a year,” Marshall reveals....
...Sustained success through her career could transform her into an international superstar, alongside tennis champions such as Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka, who are among the highest-earning female athletes...
...London’s Thames in the 19th century was, in its way, as sinister a place as Conrad’s Congo....
...It took the imagination of another member of the clan – Polizzi’s stepson, the artist and sculptor Conrad Shawcross – to conquer the aesthetic hurdles of the property....
...And dad collected a whole book of cartoons by Conrad, a cartoonist for the LA Times, just on Nixon....
...“I have read Henry Miller and Tennessee Williams in French. I have discovered sexuality in French books. I have discovered the prohibition of sex with Arabic.”...
...The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, by Maya Jasanoff, William Collins, RRP£25/Penguin Press, RRP$30, 400 pages Jerome Boyd Maunsell is author of ‘Susan Sontag’ (Reaktion)....
...The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, by Maya Jasanoff, William Collins, RRP£25/Penguin Press, RRP$30 Harvard historian Jasanoff explores what Conrad termed his “life in the wide world”....
...“The original point of P2P platforms was to say to two people ‘so you want to borrow, and you want to lend, you should meet’” said Conrad Ford, chief executive of business loan comparison site Funding Options...
...“Every place there is a Starbucks, you could open a café like Blue Bottle across the street and both would do incredibly well,” says Tony Conrad, partner at True Ventures, an early Blue Bottle investor....
...As a result, Fitzgerald is securely lodged in the pantheon alongside Hemingway and William Faulkner, the rivals he watched with unease in the 1930s....
...(Where was Kenneth Williams when we needed him?) Maria Alexandrova was the heroine, unfazed by technical or emotional challenges, brilliant at all times....
...The Worlds of Joseph Conrad, by Maya Jasanoff, William Collins, RRP£25 A window into the world at the dawn of the 20th century through the life and work of a great novelist....
...‘Conrad Shawcross: Manifold’, New Art Centre, Salisbury May 23-July 26; ‘The Dappled Light of the Sun’, Royal Academy, London June 8-August 16; ‘Conrad Shawcross’, Victoria Miro, London June 10-July 31;...
...“We won’t see his like for a long time,” remarked William Hague, the former Tory leader, in 2007 after Blair was finally winkled out of Downing Street by Brown....
...He has had close friendships with strident rightwingers such as Alan Clark and William Shawcross but claims to have been a long-time Labour voter....
...Welsh historian Gareth Williams wrote: “Their penetrating discussion of the game — lines of running, angles of packing, miss moves, compiling statistics on different phases of play — brought a startlingly...
...Addressed to Maggs Bros, it was written by Joseph Conrad in 1922. “Would you care to take over either 50 copies of each for £200, or 60 copies of each for 200 guineas?” wrote the hard-up novelist....
...The protagonist, an Afrikaner expat known as Marlouw (a nod to Joseph Conrad), returns to the family’s former homestead in the Eastern Cape to find his nephew, Koert, lording it over an Aids-ravaged population...
...Asterix and the Missing Scroll, by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, translated by Anthea Bell, Orion, RRP£10.99/Asterix RRP$17.99 The indomitable Gaul is back in this second outing from Ferri and Conrad...
...It is filled with contemporary African design objects by Gregor Jenkin, Conrad Botes and Ceramic Matters....
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