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...Some way into this vastly entertaining — and shocking — memoir, St Aubin de Terán warns that the book is “episodic”....
...An array of insiders recount his journey from turbulent childhood to Eton, Oxford, stints as Spectator editor, London mayor and Brexit bus championer....
...But there’s a more innocent Rushdie, still enchanted by the Indian and Islamic epics and fables of his childhood, such as the Panchatantra and the Ramayana, where Gods are real and animals speak....
...His home, built originally for the Marquis d’Aubigné, appeals to his love of period architecture and childhood memories of his father’s 17th-century country pile, which was stuffed with antiques and tapestries...
...Perhaps this is a sign of a burgeoning inner peace that means he no longer worries about entertaining us. ★★★☆☆ On Netflix now...
...It is also one of the most viscerally entertaining....
...All of this is delivered in lightweight, entertaining fashion in the brief chapters that are Patterson’s speciality....
...Bernstein never got the chance to rehearse with the New York Philharmonic before that 1943 bow, and we never see his childhood....
...The plot never quite achieves lift-off, but this barely matters: it’s a silly, entertaining flight of fantasy. ★★★☆☆ To December 17, guildford-shakespeare-company.co.uk...
...The property, rich in wood panelling and built-in furniture, was designed for entertaining....
...Their collaboration started with the home bar, something that — with homes across the UK and France, along with plenty of entertaining smarts between them — they could happily envision....
...A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle That Shaped the Middle East by James Barr (2011)A lively, even entertaining account of the decisive moment in the history of the modern day Middle East...
...The duo behind women’s ready-to-wear and homeware brand Tata Naka still share an instinct for home entertaining....
...Unicef conducted a remarkable survey in 2021, interviewing 21,000 people across 21 countries for The Changing Childhood Project....
...“The idea appealed to me immediately,” says Blake, an “avid” birdwatcher since childhood....
...Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Successby Miki Berenyi, Nine Eight Books £22 An odd London childhood leads to wayward young adulthood in the band Lush in Miki Berenyi’s memoir, a portrait of 1980s...
...His is a determinedly glass-half-empty approach, as he turns an objectively entertaining story into a tale of a broken American dream....
...His mother, painter Kate, is entertaining two of his four children, Ruscha, five, and Marlowe, three, who are skittering about underneath the table....
...There’s nothing entertaining about that. ★★★☆☆ Episodes 1-2 on BBC iPlayer now Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...An object I would never part with is a scrapbook from childhood that my mother made for me....
...She once described her childhood and teenage years to me as “confusing and chaotic”. She left school – or, rather, schools – at 15, with no formal qualifications....
...She grew up in Leeds and the Cotswolds, and it was “a brilliant childhood in many ways, and I love the fact that I am very connected to nature....
...How entertaining is that? Swampians who missed mine and Rana’s midterm FT live event yesterday with James Politi and Norm Ornstein should watch it here....
...“Some of the criticism that authors are feeling at present is excessive, because generally, they’re just trying to produce work that is entertaining or challenging,” Harrington said....
...The 39-year-old spent her childhood in the lush surrounds of New Zealand; her father was an artist and her mother, Angela Wickstead, owned a fashion boutique in Auckland’s Parnell....
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