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BED AND ABOARD

Quarter Finalists: Claire Wrathall straddles land and sea in five hotels that operate their own boats...

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SCENES FROM A LIFE

From a first visit to the Little Theatre, Bolton, to the role of chief theatre critic on the Times and beyond, few people have seen as many plays as Irving Wardle. In this memoir, he distils what he has learnt...

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FUENTES ON TIME AND SPACE

The great Mexican novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes has died aged 83. Two years ago, he wrote this piece for our series Authors on Museums. “Museums, like lovers," he said, "can lose their charms”, but when he returned to an old haunt in Xalapa, Mexico, he found he was smitten all over again...

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THE SHAPES WE'RE IN

Are you a leggy Edwardian? Or a nip-waisted New Look? With help from four actresses, Isabel Lloyd matches bodies to decades...

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