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...Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester (William Collins) From clay tablets to digital ones, Winchester explores 5,000 years of human...
...More charmingly, those cute kids’ frog wellies popular in the 1980s (including with princes William and Harry) are having a moment....
...Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio by Chris Laoutaris (William Collins/Pegasus Books) To mark the 400th anniversary of the First Folio, the Shakespeare scholar examines the...
...Poundland managing director Barry Williams said: “We recognise the last few weeks have been difficult for them [Wilko staff] and we will move quickly to secure new consents from landlords so we can offer...
...I can well imagine that William — who Harry says had been told to shave off his own beard — was boiling with jealousy....
...All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaediaby Simon Garfield, Weidenfeld & Nicolson £18.99/William Morrow $29.99 February 28, 2023 Simon Garfield, author of quirky histories...
...Kiwi polish was invented by an Australian called William Ramsay. (His wife, Annie, was a New Zealander, hence the product’s name.)...
...Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at Warby Deborah Cohen, William Collins £25 Cohen’s group biography explores the lives of four young American newshounds who bestrode the...
...Tanya Wilkinson, relaxing in a cluster of fishermen’s huts jutting out into the North Sea, in the shadow of Redcar’s huge former steel site, remembered Thatcher as “not great”....
...The story is gripping and bowls along in Tara Overfield Wilkinson’s compact, pacy production on Mayou Trikerioti’s simple wooden set, evocative of a camp hut. The show is best when at its most acerbic....
...Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread, by Michiko Kakutani, William Collins, RRP£16.99/Clarkson Potter, RRP$25, 304 pages The renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic selects her list of must-read books...
...Even if there aren’t risks to individual patients, we could all suffer if the mutations generated by the drug become more dangerous variants, warns virologist William Haseltine....
...Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World Jonathan Bate, William Collins, RRP£25 “All who hike or simply gaze in the wild places are legatees of Wordsworth’s . . . way of seeing,” writes Jonathan...
...Wilkinson, who also DJs in a house music collective that performs in lab coats, is now . . . a wine taster. Cheers to new beginnings....
...The last one I purchased was an 1878 edition of Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians by John Gardner Wilkinson, a pioneer of Egyptology....
...Charles Shields’ biography tells the story behind the enigmatic Williams’ posthumous success....
...Nigel Williams, project director of the North Sea Link for National Grid, sees it as the “perfect landing spot”....
...John William Scarle, 79, and his wife Marjorie Ann Scarle, 69, were found dead in their bungalow in Leigh on Sea by police in October 2016, having died of hypothermia some days earlier....
...A more ingenious birther theory purports that Barack Obama traces his lineage from William the Lion, a 13th-century king of Scotland....
...In 1875 William Whiteley bought Thomas Wilkinson & Son, the royal warrant holder for tailors’ shears to Queen Victoria, in a deal struck by the clay-pipe smoking inheritor of the company, Elizabeth Whiteley...
...The Overstory , by Richard Powers, William Heinemann, RRP£18.99, 502 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe. Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos...
...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 Seabird’s Cry , by Adam Nicolson, William Collins, RRP£16.99 Nicolson explores the life stories of 10 seabirds — puffins, gulls, guillemots, cormorants, gannets and so on — that he observes around the...
...“For some partners, doubling or even trebling their compensation can be attractive because it means they can accelerate their retirement,” says Tom Wilkinson, managing partner of legal headhunter Wilkinson...
...Love is Blind, by William Boyd, Viking A young Scotsman discovers a new life in Paris in the popular Boyd’s latest....
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