![]() Peggy Porschen said she would consider expanding her cake cafe business in countries other than Britain. Dee Corsi, boss of the New West End Company, which shared the figures, said a Covid recovery was being held back by the tax.Īlthough international visitors were slowly returning to London, they were hesitant to go on shopping sprees to the same extent, she said, adding: ‘The harmful impact of this tourist tax is being amplified as international visitors return in greater numbers.’ Last week, footfall in the West End – including in Oxford St and Bond St – was down 23 per cent compared to the same week in 2019. She described Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s refusal to re-introduce the scheme, ditched after Brexit, as an ‘own goal’ that could drive businesses, as well as wealthy shoppers, to Paris and Milan. ![]() ![]() Ms Rowland said the tax was one of several challenges for European businesses setting up shop in the UK and she would ‘certainly think twice’ about coming to London if in their shoes ![]() Pictured: Anda Rowland, who heads the Royal suitmaker Anderson & Sheppard in Savile Row (file photo). ![]()
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One evening last December I made a visit to London for a gala dinner at the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square. ![]() ![]() The author's fans will be more than pleased." - Kirkus Reviews Praise for Framed:"Goofball-funny and addictive. Fix-it Griffin and his friends is a page-turning adventure. interesting, full of humor, and good fun." - VOYA"Korman's second tale of eleven-year-old Mr. The Swindle Mysteries series is a series of childrens adventure novels by Canadian-American novelist Gordon Korman. ![]() Praise for Swindle:"Pure fun from top to bottom." - School Library Journal"Korman's fast moving, feel-good suspense novel will have middle schoolers, especially boys, turning the pages." - VOYA Praise for Zoobreak:"Korman again knocks it out of the park. The author's fans will be more than pleased." - Kirkus Reviews Praise for Framed:"Goofball-funny and addictive." - Kirkus Reviews ![]() Insight for Living is committed to excellence in communicating. ![]() ![]() interesting, full of humor, and good fun." - VOYA"Korman's second tale of eleven-year-old Mr. Insight for Living is the Bible-teaching ministry of author and pastor Charles R. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Joe Hill, author of Horns, Locke & Key and NOS4A2 “Sad, hilarious, beautiful & essential to anyone who cares about modern fantasy.” … Grossman’s sensibilities are thoroughly adult, his narrative dark and dangerous and full of twists. “ The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. It has now been published in more than 25 countries and adapted as an hour-long TV drama on Syfy. The Magicians was a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. The Magicians is a grand, glittering fantasy that reinterprets the grand tradition of C.S. ![]() That changes when Quentin finds himself admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the practice of modern sorcery.īut magic doesn’t bring Quentin the happiness and adventure and meaning he thought it would-until he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. Compared to that, everything in his real life just seems gray and colorless. Quentin Coldwater is a high school senior, but he’s still secretly obsessed with a series of fantasy novels he read when he was little, about the adventures of five children in a magical land called Fillory. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether you have a garden, roadside verge or window box, there is no space too small. Rewilding is a spectrum of possibility, and everyone is on it. It is inspired by the requests they receive from people wanting to learn how to rewild everything from unprofitable farms, landed estates and rivers, to ponds, allotments, churchyards, urban parks and public spaces. The book has grown out of Isabella and Charlie's mission to help rewild Britain, Europe and the rest of the world by sharing knowledge from their pioneering project at Knepp in Sussex. It is ambitious, visionary and pragmatic. The Book of Wilding is a handbook for how we can all help restore nature. And what comes is not just wildlife in super-abundance, but solutions to the other environmental crises we face. Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell know firsthand how spectacularly nature can bounce back if you give it the chance. How can an individual ever make a difference? The enormity of climate change and biodiversity loss can leave us feeling overwhelmed. ![]() ![]() ![]() The following conversation has been edited for length and clarity. ![]() Perhaps we have Hawkins’ placid personal life to thank for unearthing from the dark corners of her imagination another complex and disturbing tale. In fact, the single, London-based author admitted to The Times that, in keeping with her earlier oeuvre, her real life is similarly quite happy, if uneventful. The Zimbabwe-born, Oxford-educated former financial journalist soared to literary stardom by way of a milder career as Amy Silver, her romantic fiction nom de plume. Set in a rural town with an eerie history of women curiously drowning, Hawkins’ intertwining narratives of mothers, daughters and sisters unsettle her readers out of the false presumption that blood is any thicker than, well, water. Where “The Girl on the Train” mined the protagonist’s unmitigated and diffuse psychic turmoil over a marriage gone very, very wrong, Hawkins’ latest foray into the twisted recesses of female consciousness explores the fracturing of bonds that are not romantic but filial. Today she dares to make another splash with “ Into the Water,” her second novel of sinuous psychological suspense. Paula Hawkins’ 2015 debut thriller, “The Girl on the Train,” made her an instant household name, breaking worldwide publishing sales records and begetting a big-studio blockbuster. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, she is a Black teenager whose interracial marriage to the mentally ill King George III (Corey Mylchreest in youth James Fleet as the older version) led to an event called “the Great Experiment.” In Queen Charlotte and the original Bridgerton series, the Great Experiment refers to Britain’s (clearly fictional) decision to fully integrate Black people and other people of color into their society, including the noble class. ![]() The prequel series gives Queen Charlotte (India Amarteifio in youth and Golda Rosheuvel in her later years) the spotlight. The premiere of Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, a Shondaland production based on the romance novels by Julia Quinn, tries to cement the public image of the monarch as an undeniably Black woman. ![]() And now, millions more will believe it too. But even though the evidence for Charlotte’s Black heritage is weak, many do genuinely believe it. The first time I heard someone call Charlotte, Queen Consort to King George III, the “first Black queen of England,” I thought they were taking the piss. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The lavish two-column format recalls Shakespeare’s folios, and dozens of vibrant illustrations capture all the iconic movie moments. Readers will experience their favorite scenes, characters, and lines in a fresh-yet fully faithful-way, through soliloquies and dialogue by everyone from Captain America to Groot (“’Tis I!”). What if the most epic cinematic franchise of all time had been penned by the greatest playwright of all time? Wonder no more! In William Shakespeare’s Avengers, the best-selling author of the William Shakespeare’s Star Wars series has reimagined the Avengers films as plays penned by the Bard himself, including:Īuthentic meter and verse, stage directions, and clever Easter eggs will delight fans of the Avengers and Shakespeare alike. Assemble, Ye Avengers! All four Avengers films are presented as Shakespearean plays in this must-have for Marvel fans. ![]() ![]() For instance, would it be surprising if we turned to Animal Farm, a book published in 1945? All animals being equal, but some more equal than others is a concept that might resonate with Indian readers right now.Ī translation by Daisy Rockwell of Krishna Sobti's last novel, A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There, was published early this year. Perhaps what any given year does is impact the choices readers make, the books they seek out, the inchoate feelings that they perhaps wish to see reflected back at them in print. ![]() This is different for non-fiction, but only slightly. There are few things more irrelevant to a volume of fiction and poetry than the year it was published. ![]() Readers should be sceptical about year-end lists that purport to tell you what to read. ![]() |