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FAWLEY church could be “reordered” as a community space with a kitchen and toilets. The friends of St Mary the Virgin, a non-religious charity which. ....
Naim Attallah, the Eighties literary It girl set, and me His approach may have been ‘gloriously’ non-PC, but Anna Pasternak adored working for the Quartet Books chairman Anna Pasternak worked for Naim Attallah at Quartet Books in the 1980s When I heard that Naim Attallah had died last week, I felt as if a vital pop of literary colour had left our drab world. The flamboyant Palestinian proprietor of Quartet Books was a character so vivid that his exotic existence now seems the stuff of fiction. The entrepreneur who financed The Literary Review and The Oldie magazine, made a society splash in the 1980s throwing the most dazzling parties in London, employing only aristocratic beauties or girls with famous literary surnames. ‘Attallah’s harem’ as it was known, would not pass muster with HR today. He created a wave of literary It girls, including Nigella Lawson, Rebecca Fraser, Sophia Sackville-West, Daisy Waugh, Emma Soames, Candida Crewe, Jubby Ing ....