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After Hours
Top thriller
We’ve all seen him: the man – the monster – staring from the front page of every
newspaper, accused of a terrible crime.
But what about her: the woman who grips his arm on the courtroom stairs – the wife
who stands by him?
Jean Taylor’s life was blissfully ordinary. Nice house, nice husband. Glen was all she had
ever wanted. Until he became the man accused, that monster on the front page. Jean
was married to a man everyone thought capable of unimaginable evil.
But now Glen is dead and she is alone for the irst time, free to tell her story on her own
terms. Jean Taylor is going to tell us what she knows.
Previously News Editor at The Daily Telegraph, this psychological thriller is the irst novel
from Fiona Barton.
The Widow
By Fiona Barton
£12.99
Transworld
Dining in the gym
The German Gymnasium has sprung up in what was once Britain’s irst
ever purpose-built gym in King’s Cross, London.
The three-storey grade II listed building now houses a grand café,
outdoor terrace, restaurant, bars and private dining spaces.
The brasserie type menus include sausages sourced from Germany and
classic Mittel-European dishes such as Tyrolean hey speck with celeriac
remoulade and pickles and veal schnitzel, while for dessert there is
sachertorte and Black Forest gateau.
www.germangymnasium.com
26 Pancras Road, London, W1C 4TB
Rarely seen monotypes
The Museum of Modern Art in New York plays host to Edgar Degas:
A Strange New Beauty, a major exhibition which focuses on Hilaire-
Germain-Edgar Degas’s extraordinary and rarely seen monotypes
and their impact on his wide practice.
A huge igure in 19th century art, Degas is best known as a painter
and chronicler of the ballet, and this is the irst US exhibition in nearly
50 years to examine these radical and innovative works. It features
about 130 monotypes along with some 50 related works, including
paintings, drawings, pastels, sketchbooks and prints, and a range of
subject matters are explored including scenes of modern life, harshly
illuminated café singers, ballet dancers onstage and backstage, the
life of the brothel and landscapes.
Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty
Showing 26th March to 24th July, 2016
www.moma.org
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