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...The headline act is Picasso’s portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter, “Femme à la montre” (1932), carrying an estimate of more than $120mn....
...A Faithful Spy by Jimmy Burns (Chiselbury)The interlocking world of US and UK intelligence is illuminated in this biography of Walter Bell, an MI5 and MI6 officer who sat at the heart of the development...
...Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) From its cover (echoing the design of Isaacson’s earlier biography of Steve Jobs) to its size (nearly 700 pages), this account of the world’s highest profile...
...The French singer David Walters adds soulful Kreyòl vocals over the Congotronic distorted likembes of “No Commando”....
...Because of the Allen sale, Christie’s had the greatest fall at auction, of 30 per cent....
...Mirisch produced a remarkable string of Hollywood classics: Billy Wilder’s Some Like it Hot (1959) and The Apartment (1960), followed the next year by West Side Story, directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins...
...The authors begin with the financier Walter Wriston and the borderless, almost stateless hopes he had for finance....
...Explorer: The Quest for Adventure and the Great Unknownby Benedict Allen, Canongate £18.99 In 2017, Allen was late emerging from a jungle trip in Papua New Guinea....
...His previous book, the luminous Time of the Magicians (2018) deftly wove together the lives and thought of four male 20th-century thinkers: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ernst Cassirer, Walter Benjamin and Martin...
...In the mixed-owner portion, 10 works went unsold, including a 1938 Picasso painting of Marie-Thérèse Walter against a pink background, estimated $20mn-$30mn....
...How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F Walter, Viking £18.99 Barbara F Walter, a professor at the University of California, draws on examples such as Yugoslavia, Syria, Libya and Myanmar...
...It will be a while before an art collection can rival that of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, which made a total of $1.6bn across two auctions at Christie’s last week....
...Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategyby Henry Kissinger, Allen Lane £25/Penguin $36 Now aged 99, Kissinger is still writing books....
...Sutton Benger and Christian Malford have also become more popular, according to Michelle Hallas of Allen & Harris estate agents....
...Her models include Virginia Woolf walking around London’s wintry streets, Walter Benjamin in Paris, Raja Shehadeh’s exploration of the Palestinian territories, and, more recently, Iain Sinclair’s London...
...Finally, a brief mention for a fine new series of thrillers published by Pushkin Press in association with Walter Presents, Channel 4’s splendid sub-channel devoted to foreign crime and thriller television...
...Eight Days in May: How Germany’s War Ended by Volker Ullrich Allen Lane, £25, 336 pages Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 by Harald Jähner WH Allen, £20, 382 pages Giles MacDonogh...
...The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Raceby Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster £30 Isaacson follows up his well received biographies of Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein...
...On the desk of the German architect and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius sits a solid-brass egg....
...Still others, such as the Allen brothers, self-styled Jacobite heirs to the throne, were hoaxers and yet sometimes capable of serious historical inquiry....
...In 2019 Walter Lübcke, a regional politician in Kassel, Germany, was shot in the head in his garden by a rightwing extremist....
...Toby Fowlston, chief executive at white-collar recruitment business Robert Walters, said he was witnessing shortages of candidates for jobs....
...Allen Tobias Brooklyn, NY, US...
...It was an instant hit, and when his father Walter came to help out one summer, he enjoyed the experience so much that he decided to bring the idea back to his hometown of Portland....
...His new book ‘The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain’ is published next week by Allen Lane Follow @ftweekend on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first Letter...
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