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Books: Learning about love and politics Lesley McDowell on the Booker short-listed novel which sets interracial romance against a backdrop of colonialism, religion and Egyptian nationalism; The Map of Love By Ahdaf Soueif BLOOMSBURY pounds 6.99
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About a third of the way through Soueif's elegant and gently
plotted tale of forbidden love and political machinations, one
character muses on the nature of history. "That is the beauty of the
past, there it lies on the table: journals, pictures, a candle-
glass, a few books of history. You leave it and come back to it and
it waits for you - unchanged."
The immutability of the past may be the theme of Soueif's romantic
and political opus, but it's a disingenuous one. This is a tale of
the past revisited and rewritten if ever there was one. Such fusion
of fact and fiction increasingly forms a ...
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He oiled Bath's waters Judith Flanders enjoys a Life of Beau Nash, the dandy who made the spa town fashionable
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; THE NAME "Beau'' Nash can raise a cloud of doubt in even the widely read. Was Beau Nash the dandy friend of the Prince Regent...Brighton Pavilion - but maybe that was John Nash. So who, then, was Beau Nash, and what...
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The Imaginary Autocrat: Beau Nash and the Invention of Bath.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; The Imaginary Autocrat: Beau Nash and the Invention of Bath. John Eglin. Profile...86197-302-0. The life and adventures of Richard Nash (1674-1761), known to history as 'Beau Nash', are 'a mixture of fact and legend'. His fame...
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Following in the footsteps of beau Nash
Newspaper article from: Bath Chronicle, The
; ...festival organiser James Whitehead be the successor to Beau Nash? I took part in James's achievement in getting some...dancing together in the Abbey Church Yard, a feat I am sure Beau Nash never achieved. I wonder what next he will come up with...
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Beau Nash.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England)
; PETER CHAPPLE-HYAM is planning to send recent Newbury maiden winner Beau Nash for a crack at the Group 3 Horris Hill Stakes on Saturday. The trainer said: "Alan Munro will ride. We could do with some rain...
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Beau Nash to outsmart rivals in Ascot feature ; RACING
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...disappointing last time. He has had a break and his previous form is solid. Best bet on the card, however, may be BEAU NASH (nap 2.10) in the Ladbrokes Handicap. He pulled clear with a well handicapped horse at Newbury last time and, though...
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Hotel Crescent Court and Beau Nash. (F&B People).(Jean-Marie Dubos named executive chef)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Hotels
; Hotel Crescent Court and Beau Nash, Dallas, appoints Jean-Marie Dubos executive chef ...
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In the bowels of the novel: The exchange of fluids in the Beau Monde
Magazine article from: Novel
; ...popular representation in the image of Beau Nash, its reigning Master of Ceremonies...was the original founder of Bath, to Nash is due the merit of being its restorer...of a full-length painting honoring Nash, these categorical confusions in the...
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TV: The beau who took a gamble on Bath.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; ...character is the flamboyant Richard ``Beau'' Nash, a Master of Revels from the 18th...but made his name in Bath. Young Nash obtained a commission in the army...exchanged for the study of law. Then Nash found it financially necessary to...
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Letter: Beau was Welsh.(Letters)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
; ...your article "On This Day in ..." (February 3), it stated "Death of English dandy and gambler Richard 'Beau' Nash". Nash was in fact Welsh, born in Swansea (1674), educated at the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Carmarthen, and...
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Bathing in the glory of Beau's playground; IN SEARCH OF ENGLAND.(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...bottom, Ionic in the middle and Corinthian at the top. Beau Nash, the 'Master of Ceremonies' in the city during its days...Two hundred and fifty years later, what was achieved by Nash's initiative and the genius of the Woods (father and...
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