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...Wilson ennobled as a life peer his old friend, Joseph Kagan, who had already received a knighthood in 1970, and made large financial contributions to Wilson’s trust....
...If the idea appeals, you will almost certainly be in whodunnit heaven with Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz (Century, £22)....
...Nearly 70 years later, Carven heralded its latest incarnation with a quieter statement: a blank page....
...Skat has presented documents to the court running to about 250,000 pages, according to Shah’s legal team. Shah is facing up to 12 years in prison in Denmark if found guilty in that criminal case....
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...In its opening pages, this first-person account of its author’s almost-murder delivers a big, shameless joke....
...Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton, Allen Lane £30/Harvard University Press $39.95, 304 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Bechtolsheim is a billionaire many times over, having been one of the founders of Sun Microsystems and the first outside investor in Google, his $100k cheque allowing Larry Page and Sergey Brin to move from...
...According to his LinkedIn page, he then spent two decades working for the China operations of major European and US multinational companies including BP, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and General Motors....
...Doesn’t Jeff Bezos look like Dr Evil in that second-page spread?...
...They invited Jonathan Guinness of the brewing clan, Anthony Berry of the newspaper dynasty, and — almost as an afterthought — Herbert....
...Undeterred, his parents decided to “meet AMERICA™ half-way”, changing their first names to Joseph and Linda....
...Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson Virago £25/Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26.99, 352 pages Jane Shaw is Professor of the History of Religion at the University of Oxford Marilynne Robinson will be appearing...
...But for Catch-22 fans who are curious about his range, I’d recommend Something Happened, the 600-page novel that took him 13 years to write, which features a disillusioned, middle-aged American corporate...
...Visit the FT poll-tracker page to discover our methodology and explore polling data by demographic including age, gender, region and more....
...“Imagine if every word we spoke became palpable and dropped from our lips,” the artist Joseph Grigely suggests. “Think about what would happen and the places we would find the residue of our words....
...Joannes Fijt’s irrepressible spaniel leaps across a page of transparent watercolour in “Study of a Dog”....
...Sunak “must not have had the same lessons as I got in primary school at St Joseph’s Camperdown: ‘Stay in your crease’,” Albanese told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper....
...At 19, he reproduced a 1933 photo of Joseph Goebbels as a large-scale drawing of the man with mouth agape, his fulminating shout distended into a howl....
...Praised by such contemporaries as Hernan Diaz and Anthony Doerr, Hunt has mastered a style that feels both traditional and fresh....
...He will be signing copies next month during Mise en Page....
...Not just from the famously ageworthy Hermitage appellation but also its Les Granits bottling from St-Joseph....
...business interests that range from retail to natural gas and petrochemicals, he can clearly turn his mind to any topic, and such was his interest in his guests’ comfort and entertainment, he offered a nine-page...
...A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson Harvill Secker £14.99/Counterpoint $16.95, 240 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Monday 150th day of Hamas-Israel conflict in Gaza Australia: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hosts a special summit in Melbourne with leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to commemorate...
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