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Winston Churchill’s London Bachelor Pad Is Selling for £3.75 Million

Churchill moved into the Mayfair apartment in 1900 when he was 25 years old, leasing it from his cousin Charles “Sunny” Spencer-Churchill, the 9th Duke of Marlborough, according to Wetherell, which is marketing the property along with Clifton Property Partners. Read more

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David Lodge, British Novelist Who Satirized Academic Life, Dies at 89

The author of 15 novels and more than a dozen nonfiction books as well as plays and screenplays, Mr. Lodge was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and his work has been translated into dozens of languages. His best-known work, “Campus Trilogy,” dramatized the brief heyday of English literature as a discipline and the jet-setting lifestyle of its professoriate. Read more

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Newly Discovered String Quartet by Clockwork Orange Author Anthony Burgess to Have Premiere

He is best-known as the author of A Clockwork Orange, his 1962 savage social satire, but Anthony Burgess saw himself primarily as a thwarted musician. Although self-taught, he was a prolific composer, and now a previously unknown piece for a string quartet is to receive its world premiere following its discovery. Read more

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