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Though best known for novels like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, the French author Jules Verne started...
Glynis Johns, the actress, who has died aged 100, rose to fame in the late 1940s and early 1950s in a series of film comedies; she became best-known for playing the suffragette mother Mrs Banks in the Walt Disney classic Mary Poppins, while on stage her distinctive, husky voice – described by one critic as sounding like “a princess who is turning into a frog” – was perfect for Send in the Clowns in A Little Night Music, the Broadway hit for which she won a Best Musical Actress Tony award.
There were always books for Christmas. Mounds of them: flurries of paperbacks, drifts of presentation copies inscribed in the unreadably copperplate hand of maiden great aunts, avalanches of books on chess, and manuals of do-it-yourself chemistry experiments using household items! And teach-yourself sleight-of-hand magic guides, and the not all-that-gratefully-received Latin to English—and English to Latin!—dictionary. The already-too-childish children's chapter books, from distant acquaintances of our parents. The popular Victorian and Edwardian fiction, adult stories that had someho...
After months of planning menus, preparing for new diners and perfecting their new space, Toad Hall owners Corey Szaryc and Jaimie Utley have announced their new restaurant, Nemo & Fogg.
As Phileas Fogg circles the planet in “Around the World in Eighty Days,” the novelist Jules Verne describes his hero winning at whist aboard a ship on the Red…