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A Gentleman's Guide to Social Climbing
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 8 months agoGeorge Weidenfeld’s Iconic Social ClimbChiun Lee - Getty Images George sat at the corner of the oak boardroom table. Next to him was Ann Getty, company...
Pick of the paperbacks this summer
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhether you’re travelling abroad or planning to enjoy the balmy weather in your garden, you might be hunting for the perfect paperback. There are a...
How the internet is helping women to expose toxic men
The Independent via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoLET’S UNPACK THAT: Social media may be a bin fire – but it’s also ensuring that serial liars get...
The Australian writer who’s spent 50 years warning us that love can kill
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoWhen Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip was first published in 1977, it rattled both readers and critics,...
Inside the Game-Changing Trial of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
Esquire via Yahoo News· 1 year agoInside the Trial of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Sarah Kim In October 1960, Esquire dispatched writer...
Rembrandt’s delay a factor in precious paintings lost at sea
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoTwo paintings by Rembrandt that were lost in a shipwreck off the coast of Cornwall could have been...
Voices: I’m Ian Fleming’s biographer – there’s no way James Bond can be made ‘PC’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoI feel strongly that what an author commits to paper is sacrosanct and shouldn’t be altered. It...
Why we’ve got 1930s theatre all wrong
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoUnveiled against the backdrop of Hitler’s manoeuvres on the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, the opening night of Dodie Smith’s Dear Octopus at the Queen’s...
Voices: Keir Starmer is looking more like four-time election winner Harold Wilson every day
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA new biography of Harold Wilson sends the message that if Starmer could match the former prime...
‘I’m an enormously talented man’: The life of born show-off Noel Coward, 50 years on
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs a major new biography about Noel Coward is published half a century on from his death, Martin...