... WAKING THE WHITE GHOST COUNTRY L I FE by DUFF HAR T - DAVIS 1-Seen across its new deer park and lake, Wormsley stands with its back to sheltering APRIL 4, 199 For more than 250 years-from 1720 until 1984-it belonged to the Fanes, who also owned land in ...

... insists the landlord-the sonorously named Count Robin de la Lanne Mirrlees - all good fun, a re-enactment of the 1874 Benera riots against a previous owner. In fact, the Count says, I didn't really want to do it at all. They twisted my arm. As it happens ...

... Elsinore, and before it departs, it undertakes, amiably enough, to help with the project. The subject is to be ghosts. The ghost has become a ghost-writer. Gyles Brandreth is a joky writer (as well as an astoundingly productive one), and a number of his jokes ...

... for children. Now, with Ghosts That Haunt You (Kestrel, £3. 95), he has produced a collection of stories by other well-known authors such as Agatha Christie, Ray Bradbury, Pamela Hansford Johnson and many others. These are all ghost storiesfrightening ones ...

... Building up a painting in this way could have similar results, and it is here in particular that one's imaginatign can run riot. A great many Victorian pictures that are either too big or too complicated to have been kept on the move by the painter all ...

... modest kind of man he was, would really have wished . It was this that triggered off the opera that triggered off the Brussels riots of 1830 when the Dutch were driven out of Belgium . But this was no part of Auber 's intention at its first performance in ...

... five storeys high. University College has another five-storey tower over its gate, the High Street fac;:acle of All Souls is a riot of Gothic finja]s and battlements, Brasenose c]j splays a severe Corinthian portico, and at the far end of the street Carfax ...

... out quite quickly, but I didn't. We made our hen runs and kept our hens and I thought continually about the habit of this ghost fox. I began to see its run-a path kept open by a wandering sheepdog or terrier. I talked about the fox until I dug up the ...

... Elsinore, and before it departs, it undertakes, amiably enough, to help with the project. The subject is to be ghosts. The ghost has become a ghost-writer. Gyles Brandreth is a joky writer (as well as an astoundingly productive one), and a number of his jokes ...

... in swaggering, up-to-the-minute prose, which has the satisfying effect of making them seem our contemporaries rather than ghosts conjured from ancient dust. He also makes them actors, joyously or reluctantly eo-opted into the great, and dangerous, political ...

... mother no longer wished to return to her native Pembrokeshire. There would, she said when pressed for a reason, be too many ghosts. Knowing her great love of that delectable county this attitude seemed strange. Now, at least, I understand, for I too have ...

... Gawain, commissioned by Covent Garden. David Harsent's libretto complicates matters by having the SEAN DAY-LEWIS THE times are riot good for writers of television drama. The move from single plays, originally stemming from theatre tradition, to the cinematic ...