30 h. ago How Agatha Christie made London a perfect backdrop for murder and mystery

How Agatha Christie made London a perfect backdrop for murder and mystery  The Federal

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67 h. ago I’d lost my childhood love of reading – but rediscovered it when I set aside my iPhone | Adrian Chiles

You can keep your ebooks. There is no better way to engage with words than through a paperbackEverything changes so everything can stay the same. In the beginning I read a lot. I read paperback books. The Famous Five, the Secret Seven and all that stuff. I had – have, actually – all 21 Famous Five books. They’re in paperback, apart from the fifth one, Five Go Off in a Caravan, which is in hardback. A present from my nan. Nice. But I preferred paperbacks. I’ve never seen the point of hardbacks. They’re unwieldy, harder to hold in bed, especially under the sheets when I was supposed to be asleep.In my teens I raced through Agatha Christie, Alistair MacLean and the like, and Reader’s Digest too, countless editions of which were lined up beside every toilet in the house. Then schooling started interfering with my tastes and I got into Thomas Hardy in a big way, and other big thick, proper paperback novels. After my A-levels I went cycling in France with a mate, which was a miserable exp...

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3 d. ago How to Have the Perfect Long Weekend in London, According to Locals

How to Have the Perfect Long Weekend in London, According to Locals  AFAR

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7 d. ago Stacey Solomon nails summer occasionwear in pastel pink midi dress that's ideal for weddings and race days

Stacey Solomon's Club L London pink dress is the perfect pick for a day at the races, a summer wedding or a launch event, and it's still available to shop in all sizes

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7 d. ago Stacey Solomon’s pastel pink midi dress is the perfect pick for a day at the races

Stacey Solomon wowed fans as she attended an event in a stunning pale pink midi dress from Club L London, and it’s the perfect pick if you’ve got a day at the races pending

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8 d. ago The foodie French town that’s less than two hours from London and is perfect for a weekend break

Just 1 hour 22 minutes by train from London St Pancras, Rachel Mills discovers how Lille is an easy weekend getaway that combines flea markets and cultural goings on with an exciting food and craft beer scene

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1 week ago Gangs of London actors on how the show strikes the perfect balance of action and drama

Gangs of London actors on how the show strikes the perfect balance of action and drama  thenationalnews.com

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1 week ago Agatha Christie characters handed ‘modern reimagining’ for new series

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Adidas drops new Samba OG collab with Liberty London, and it’s the perfect summer shoe  Syracuse.com

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Beyoncé fans in awe at proposal in London crowd at 'literally perfect' moment of set  MyLondon

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2 w. ago South London pub perfect for a day trip from Surrey reopens after £1 million revamp

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Barry Turner reviews the best Classic Crime out now.

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4 w. ago Mountainhead to See How They Run: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Jesse Armstrong’s hilariously awkward tech bro satire sees Steve Carell and Jason Schwartzman plot world domination, while a starry, Agatha Christie-inspired whodunnit is tons of funIn Jesse Armstrong’s squirmingly funny satire, four tech moguls gather at a retreat called Mountainhead (a wry nod to Ayn Rand’s paean to individualism The Fountainhead). When the launch of a deep-fake tool by Cory Michael Smith’s billionaire Venis plunges the world into financial and social meltdown, he and his alpha male peers – Jeff (Ramy Youssef), Randall (Steve Carell) and their host Souper (Jason Schwartzman) – insouciantly ponder exploiting this “moment of creative destruction” and taking over the world. As in Succession, Armstrong has a keen eye for the supercilious world of the super-rich, where people are expendable and petty grievances can be dressed up as utopianism. Sunday 1 June, 9pm, Sky Atlantic Continue reading...

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