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Diana Preston Transworld, July, £18.99, 0385604386

... the 20th century. Diana Preston,who has written wellreceived books on Scott,the Boxer Rebellion and the sinking of the “Lusitania”,tells the human story of its development and use. Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero Catriona Kelly ...

Published: Friday 08 April 2005
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 125 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

Summer is the season for the smaller smoke

... by a punnet of strawberries, is simply insufficient as a foundation upon which to enjoy a Cohiba Esplendido or a Partagas Lusitania. In Bolivar's book there are few rules about cigar smoking-only one I can think of is that life is too short to smoke bad ...

Published: Thursday 22 July 2004
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 628 | Page: 77 | Tags: none

BOLIVAR SPECIAL EDITION The arrival of a new cigar is something of a mystery. Is it a new Montechristo, or

... make a few enquiries and talk to me later. Partagas Serie C No. 1 (Misin x 48); this was followed by the Hoyo de Monterrey Lusitania (7%in x 49). Last year saw the reintroduction of a classic name, the R omeo y Julieta Fabulosos (No. 6), although with a ...

Published: Thursday 24 November 2005
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 687 | Page: 80 | Tags: none

Andrei Makine A Life’s Music Sceptre, £6.99, 9th, 0340820098

... not read in a single sitting. Diana Preston Wilful Murder Black Swan, £7.99, 2nd, 0552998869 The sinking in 1915 of the Lusitania with the loss of 1,200 lives is put into historical context and given a very human touch through first-hand accounts. Roger ...

Published: Friday 28 February 2003
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 385 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

History (Ancient)

... Blockades: The Naval Blockades of WWI. 23cm.224p. £19.95 Leo Cooper (11.2002) 0 85052 908 5 Peeke, Mitch & Jones, Steve. “Lusitania” Story. 23cm.192p. £19.95 Leo Cooper (10.2002) 0 85052 902 6 Thomas, Lowell. Raiders of the Deep. 22cm.363p.26i11. n.e. pbk ...

Published: Friday 13 December 2002
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 390 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

by over-exploitation or sacrificed to other uses if the cork business declines. Extremadura, at its physical ..

... cannot take away the magnificence of its history. Merida, modern capital of the region , was capital of the Roman province of Lusitania 2,000 years ago and is the premier Roman site in the whole country, with its theatre, amphitheatre, temple, fine mosaics ...

Published: Thursday 10 February 2005
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 740 | Page: 96 | Tags: none

O'Brien. The Star Clipper arrives at some great destinations but it is the travelling that counts. TIM HEALD ..

... $lO one can tour this temple to tobacco and sit and savour a Partagas (the series D No 4 if you have only half an hour, a Lusitania if you have nothing much to do for an hour or two) in the smoking lounge before making a purchase in the fine cigar shop ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 2005
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 878 | Page: 72 | Tags: none

A RARE sight greeted me on a recent afternoon visit to Davidoff of St James's. Ostensibly, little was different ..

... there were, well, so many of them. There can hardly be a single cigar of which Davidoff is short. Cohiba Robustos, Partagas Lusitanias, Hoyo de Monterrey Double Coronas in bundles of 50, Hoyo Epicure Nos I and 2 in both 25s and 50s. I found a full range of ...

Published: Thursday 30 March 2000
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 814 | Page: 111 | Tags: none

~ REVIEW ~ . BOOKS

... and, in Miss Jekyll's case particularly, flowering yuccas spiking up among the hollyhocks. Hub bard, alas, sank with the Lusitania in 1915, but others, such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Charles A. Platt, were among dozens of exponents who translated the genre ...

Published: Thursday 20 January 2005
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 878 | Page: 79 | Tags: none

'THE vintage cigar market has come from nowhere since 1996,' says Simon Chaser of cigar importers Hunters & ..

... elderly tobacco is now regarded as commonplace and last year a price of £1 ,000 per cigar was achieved for a pre-1982 Partagas Lusitania sold at Christie's. The surprising rise in prices for vintage cigars has been accounted for by an increasing number of collectors ...

Published: Thursday 24 May 2001
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1095 | Page: 139 | Tags: none

Welcome to the dark side

... identity of that guy is given to you . making a at the moment , based on the events surrounding the sinking of the liner Lusitania , and playing a guy called Professor Holborn who managed to survive the disaster . So I read and read and read around the ...

Published: Thursday 08 March 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1618 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

stage talk

... want to be learnt or remembered in plays by younger audiences . I wrote and submitted a damned good play about the of RMS Lusitania in 1915 . However , I had my unique play ‘ rubbish by Brenda Blythen and her judges , who preferred kitchen sink dramas ...

Published: Thursday 19 October 2006
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2199 | Page: 9 | Tags: none