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...thinking as I read Prima Facie of how engaging and propulsive the courtroom drama is as a literary form, from Zadie Smith’s The Fraud and Ian McEwan’s The Children Act to the more generic pleasures of Johns...
...There are 36 contributors in total, including John Grisham, Celeste Ng and Emma Donoghue, and the collection is edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston....
...Links (all FT links get you past the paywall): – Fourteen Days, edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston, is out now where books are sold....
...Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, A Town and Each Other by John Preston and Elton John (Viking) John bought his beloved Watford FC when it was near the bottom of English...
...It’s this distinction that seems to explain the division of John Banville’s career — up until the 2020 publication of Snow — into two distinct authorial personas: the high literary Modernist, John Banville...
...Under the layers of intellectual posturing and theorising, you have a writer who loves the propulsiveness of the thriller, the page-turning compulsion that drives a reader through Eric Ambler or John le...
...This was partly because of Israel’s hostility to the Franco dictatorship, which lasted from Spain’s 1936-1939 civil war to 1975 and was at times ferociously antisemitic — as set out in Paul Preston’s book...
...I experienced a strong sense of “déjà lu” while reading The Last Chairlift, John Irving’s 15th novel and his first for seven years....
...Wallace said his decision to stand down as an MP was not related to the fact his constituency of Wyre and Preston North is being scrapped in a redrawing of electoral boundaries....
...Fourteen Days edited by Margaret Atwood & Douglas Preston (Chatto & Windus) This “collaborative novel” unites writers including Celeste Ng, John Grisham and Emma Donoghue for a story set in a New York apartment...
...Creative solutions are often the result of technical challenges,” says Lucy Hammond Giles, associate director at Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler....
...John Preston, chief executive of the Brewers Association trade body, pointed to a drop in the amount of alcohol that Australians consume....
...Preston Llewellyn: No....
...Now, he is expanding his ambitions with the launch of the Blazer Group and a new addition to his portfolio of licensed brands: Chipp, a Manhattan tailor once renowned for making John F Kennedy’s suits....
...Why The building was designed by John Pardey Architects and nominated for a Riba award in 2017....
...He had been brought up on John Buchan novels and stories of Jock of the Bushveld, “about a dog that ran wild in the bush”....
...A new biography, Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell, by John Preston, published last year, brings the number of books about the late publishing magnate to at least 12....
...My colleague John-Paul Rathbone has written a profile of the Wyre and Preston North MP....
...Iain Duncan Smith, John Redwood, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Lord David Frost are all heavily tipped for key roles in a Truss administration....
...At first, he needed the cover to flee or fight the Nazis, but John Preston suggests in his book Fall that Maxwell “rather liked slipping from one identity to another”....
...John Lennon is unserious, and distracted (his new love Yoko Ono is constantly by his side). George Harrison wavers between not-fussed and truculent, while Ringo Starr is mostly pliant, but tired....
...“The Fed is not in the business to buoy equity valuations or crypto or Spacs,” said John Leonard, global head of equities at Macquarie Asset Management....
...After that, my dad didn’t speak to John Lennon until 1980. John gave these magazine interviews in which he said my dad destroyed their rock-and-roll spirit, and that Paul couldn’t write a song....
...John Preston’s book Fall, a recounting of the life of one of the most extraordinary figures in British corporate life, is timely....
...Several high-profile MPs — including defence secretary Ben Wallace, whose Wyre and Preston North constituency is subsumed into the surrounding area — are expected to lose their seats....
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