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ALL SET TO MAKE HIS MARK

... boyhood home Somerset . He chuckles and then admits that it is not an obscure country craft a long apprenticeship with a Thomas Hardy . were youngsters who helped the with their skittle games - setting up the skittles ready for the next . Most go on to ...

Published: Thursday 28 February 2002
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 239 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Autumn at the National

... names will also be appearing at NT “Platforms” events this autumn, including Claire Tomalin, who will talk about her new Thomas Hardy biography (Viking), and Leslie Phillips, on his autobiography Hello (Orion). TRENDSPOTTING Anna Richardson decides to jump ...

Published: Friday 30 June 2006
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 152 | Page: 44 | Tags: none

Dorset

... Delightful Grade 11 Listed thatched house, 3 miles from Dorchester. 2 bedrooms, sleeps 4 + bed settee. Fully equipped. Thomas Hardy country. Tel'llls from £3QQ.£soopw incl heating, bed linen, towels. www.troyhouse.net DORSET FARM & COUNIRY HOLIDAYS Bed ...

Published: Thursday 28 April 2005
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 565 | Page: 138 | Tags: none

Hooked on Books reading group from Wickham Bishop library,Essex reads love stories from Niffenegger and Hardy ..

... may not otherwise try. By chance we picked The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, both of which have strikingly similar themes—unrequited love and a sense of being trapped in time and place. We started ...

Published: Friday 20 May 2005
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 478 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

Blake birthday honoured

... starting point, Imogen Stubbs and Bill Paterson will read poetry and prose by e e cummings, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy and Robert Herrick, with archive recordings from Sylvia Plath, Brian Patten and Charles Causley also featuring. Regular ...

Published: Friday 23 February 2007
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 168 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

● = Top form, ● = Flawed but worth a read, ● = Disappointing

... ● = Disappointing Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin (Viking 0670915122 £25) ● Guardian ● Independent ● Observer ● Times ● Sunday Telegraph “Sure-footed and compassionate biography” Independent “Tomalin’s fine, fresh handling of Hardy’s poetry breathes through ...

Published: Friday 20 October 2006
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

Media tie-ins

... this second series will probably attract a lot more viewers than the first. The book obviously covers the first series. Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge Penguin, £2.99, 22nd, 0140298142 A'two-night, two-hour adaptation is expected on ITV in February ...

Published: Friday 27 October 2000
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 182 | Page: 66 | Tags: none

THEATRE REVIEW: After the Fair

... Head Yes, it's Thomas Hardy, yes, it's musical theatre, but lyricist/ librettist Stephen Cole and composer Matthew Ward appear to have bypassed some of the problems that beset the recent production of Tess. The tale itself, based on Hardy's short story ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 265 | Page: 12 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre About Alice Wycombe Swan March , then touring Author : Charles Laurence Director : David Taylor ..

... give up but Act II is much more lively and jokes slicker . Elastically stretched and coincidences would not disgrace a Thomas Hardy novel . Plot complications arrive in the form of the Americans Peggy Black ( Rosalind Cressy ) , a editor , and Michael ...

Published: Thursday 11 March 2004
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 334 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Nicola Thorne

... look. In 1856 Martha Brown was publicly hanged for the murder of her husband. Witnessing the hanging was a 16-year-old Thomas Hardy, and it is believed that Tess is based on Martha. The author became fascinated by the subject when she was approached by ...

Published: Friday 28 July 2000
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

F for French

... Tracy Chevalier, Deborah Jaffé, Ruth Rosen and Claire Tomalin, as well as events celebrating the work of W H Auden and Thomas Hardy. friday 11th may wednesday 9th may ...

Published: Friday 04 May 2007
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Mitchinson sets up concept shop

... “new spin” is the thematic categorisation used in QI Books. Sections include Landscape (encompassing novelists such as Thomas Hardy), Medieval (Name of the Rose next to The Cheese and Worms) and a Good Life section with guides to growing your own vegetables ...

Published: Friday 01 October 2004
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 192 | Page: 3 | Tags: none