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lIn whose biography do

index entries include

“ambitious”, “bully”,

“callous”, “capricious”,

“charming”, “childlike”,

“competitive”, “cruelty”,

“rude”, “ruthless”,

“self-love”, “superior”,

“unpredictable” and

“untrustworthy”? The

designer Terence Conran’s.

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lFourteenth-century

Burgundians had some

very unusual eating

habits. They enjoyed

“pork in the shape of a

fish”, a chicken’s head

attached to a rabbit’s body,

and “a dozen gigantic eggs

in pork bladders”.

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CONTENTS 14.11.

ARTS

4

Cover story
Peter Jackson’s new

documentary compiled from

56 hours of behind-the-scenes

film shows the last moments
the Beatles were happy

6
Books

The crime writer Patricia

Cornwell reveals to Bryan

Appleyard the secrets of an
unusually difficult early life

12
Art

The reopening of the

Courtauld Gallery makes

the most of its masterpieces,
says Waldemar Januszczak

17
Film

At the age of 91, Clint

Eastwood rides again,

writes Tom Shone

BOOKS

21

Lead review

Terence Conran — an inspired

designer who was also

callous, cruel and bullying

22

Diaries

The secret notebooks that

take us inside the warped

mind of Patricia Highsmith

24

History

Dominic Sandbrook hails

a thrillingly colourful

account of a mysterious

lost European empire, below

28

Fiction

Joan Smith’s pick of the

month’s best crime novels

24

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TV & RADIO

29

TV & Radio

The best guide to the
week’s programmes

Cover The Beatles.
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