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Princess Margaret's now portrayed as spoilt and difficult, but there is much more to her than that

Edit Belfast Telegraph 25 Sep 2017
It was always known among reporters who covered the British royal circuit that the late Princess Margaret was "difficult". She liked to be seen as a royal rebel and "with it" - in the lingo of the time - but people were warned that she'd seem friendly and approachable, and then suddenly pull rank ... "You don't light my cigarette, dear ... her children, David Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto, are remarkably normal people who lead useful lives ... ....

Nigella Lawson: exclusive recipes from her new book, At My Table

Edit The Guardian 23 Sep 2017
Five easy recipes for the home cook, from chicken barley to slow-roast five-spice lamb with Chinese pancakes and walnut carrot cake. Nigella Lawson. Nigella Lawson. exclusive recipes from her new book, At My Table ... Chicken barley ... Not pretty to look at, but gratifyingly reassuring to eat ... Do not even think about using boneless thigh fillets ... A Celebration Of Home Cooking, by Nigella Lawson, published this week by Chatto & Windus at £26....

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Why did Lord Snowdon snub confidante in his £3.2m will?

Edit This is Money 20 Sep 2017
The bulk of his £3.2 million estate was shared between his children, Viscount Linley, who is now the 2nd Earl of Snowdon, Lady Sarah Chatto, Lady Frances von Hofmannsthal, and his love child, Jasper Cable-Alexander ... The Queen's former page of honour Arthur Chatto set hearts aflutter when he posted a topless selfie on social media, showing off his muscular torso and biceps....

Do celebrity book blurbs 'blackmail' readers?

Edit The Observer 15 Sep 2017
Setting cats among pigeons has long been an unofficial part of the contract for judges of the Booker prize ... Some people, he felt, “seem to earn their living … saying ... Once upon a time, a measured and intelligent blurb by a publisher’s copywriter was considered quite enough puff, as publisher Chatto & Windus pointed out on Twitter a while back, uncorking a stream of good-old-days nostalgia. Chatto&Windus (@ChattoBooks)....

Simon Schama leads longlist for Baillie Gifford prize

Edit The Observer 08 Sep 2017
Accounts of discord in the Middle East from the middle ages to the 21st century, a polemical analysis of race in Britain and a moving memoir about the curative effect of gardening are among the books longlisted for the 2017 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction ... “It so happens there’s a pretty good spread of culture and of gender,” Bazalgette said ... The Rosselis and the Fight Against Mussolini, Caroline Moorehead (Chatto & Windus)....

Dutch maestro DJ Tiesto sends Belfast Vital into a spin

Edit Belfast Telegraph 28 Aug 2017
Some 40,000 revellers danced the night away to trance megastar Tiesto at Vital. The Dutch DJ headlined the festival at Belfast’s Boucher Road Playing Fields ... Two years ago Tiesto claimed he didn’t want to be “the trance guy” any more and moved his music towards a more house and electronic style ... The band, which consists of Grace Chatto and brothers Jack and Luke Patterson, also impressed fans with Symphony and Rather Be ... ....

Plant kalimeris and laugh at slugs and mildew

Edit The Guardian 26 Aug 2017
The bees, butterflies and hoverflies will thank you, though, says Alys Fowler. Gardening advice. Alys Fowler's gardening column. Plant kalimeris and laugh at slugs and mildew. The bees, butterflies and hoverflies will thank you, though, says Alys Fowler. @AlysFowler ... There are several species available, mostly through specialist independent nurseries such as Beth Chatto Gardens and the Garden House in Brighton ... K ... K....

Food news: Time to hit the (cook) books

Edit Irish Independent 20 Aug 2017
The autumn cookbook publishing season has kicked off in earnest and one of the first titles out of the traps is Olia Hercules' Kaukasis (Mitchell Beazley, £25), a follow up to her hugely successful Mamushka ... Hercules' writing is beautiful ... A Celebration of Home Cooking (Chatto & Windus, £26) will be published on September 21 ... Nigel Slater, too, has a new book out soon ... Bites... Blás of ballina. Food Fleadh Ballina.   ... ....

St Vincent to helm film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic

Edit The Times of India 17 Aug 2017
Singer St Vincent is set to direct her first feature film, a big screen adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. 'Elle' writer David Birke will adapt the philosophical novel ... 130 ... Singers Elisabeth Troy (L) and Grace Chatto of Clean Bandit perform onstage during day 2 of the 2015 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival (Weekend 1) at the Empire Polo Club on April 11, 2015 in Indio, California ... St ... 3000....

Vertical Farms – No Lighthouses for Ecological Cities

Edit Resilience 16 Aug 2017
1. The dream of food without dirt. That is the best description of how we will get food in the future if we would believe the impressive number of food tech start-ups which will produce food without soil or animals. But few of them deliver on their exaggerated promises. The growing of plants in water with drip-fed nutri­tion is a much-hyped technology ... In that sense, they are like any other assembly plant ... F. ... ‘Science ... Chatto & Windus ... ....

Book review: Knowing The Score, by Judy Murray

Edit Scotsman 15 Aug 2017
Because it now all seems so familiar, it’s easy to take Scotland’s tennis success for granted. But not so long ago, imagining Scotland producing a Wimbledon champion, let alone two, would have seemed fanciful in the extreme ... Whether they could sustain this progress was the big question ... It also requires luck. Perhaps, even, some divine intervention ... My Family And Our Tennis Story, by Judy Murray, Chatto & Windus, £18.99. ....

Bohol eyed as host of Cviraa 2018

Edit Sun Star 14 Aug 2017
<p>BOHOL Province is being eyed as the host of the 2018 Central Visayas Region Athletic Association (Cviraa) in February. </p> <p>Dr. Luz Jandayan, the DepEd-7’s chief of Education Support Service Division (SSD), told SunStar Cebu that Bohol Province was contacted for the possible hosting. </p> <p>“We are waiting for the response of Bohol Gov. Edgar Chatto on DepEd’s invitation,” Jandayan said ... </p> ......

Bohol poses as global convention site

Edit The Manila Times 13 Aug 2017
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol ... Edgar Chatto said ... At the end of the conference, Chatto disclosed that he was approached by some of the foreign delegates who expressed interest in coming back to Bohol to organize an international conference or convention ... ACD was formed in Thailand 15 years ago with the Philippines as one of the 18 pioneer member states ... ....
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