This little mine of a book is full not only of gift ideas but also of suggestions for new ways to give presents.
Out of that came the idea — mine — of a literary travel column, which became "The Raw and the Cooked" when Jim turned it to food — his idea.
This was after a long summer spent laboring in the salt mine of a novel-in-progress, far from multiplexes and beyond reach of a reliable wireless signal.
The Los Angeles museum is aware of this gold mine of a resource — it recently invited a Fowler curator, Mary Nooter Roberts, to create its first African art display.
As the new French head coach, Guy Novès, and his unconfirmed English counterpart will shortly discover, this is a salt mine of a season: 11 months of hard labour with scant respite.
Clár Ní Chonghaile visited Somaliland and met people reeling from drought and cyclones in a region that "could be considered the canary in the mine of a world that is getting hotter, and where extreme weather is becoming more common".
