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...Saint Laurent’s creative director Anthony Vaccarello this month teased about a new bookstore on Instagram....
...He was serious — although as Anthony Seldon’s graphic account of Johnson’s tumultuous three years as UK prime minister asserts, the joke ended up being on the country....
...It is a mighty tome, more than 1,000 pages long, with two more to follow....
...Book-writing projects such as Shakespeare: The Riddle of Genius, a tome for which he received an advance of at least £88,000, were put on ice....
...In his series A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell titled one of his books Books do Furnish a Room. They do, but they can also become the room, physically and literally, a cast in paper....
...Economics & Business Thomas Piketty, the French economist whose 2013 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century fuelled the debate about growing inequality, returns with another weighty tome....
...This expanded into a west African foray which encompassed the tiny island nation of São Tomê and Príncipe, Ghana, Gambia and Senegal....
...Anthony Ward’s stark, simple set is overhung by a huge golden orb and backed by a steep wall of stairs up which senators can climb and down which armies can stride, allowing the action to flow....
...There are well-known fund managers including Nick Train, Gervais Williams, and Ian Heslop, plus Fidelity legend Anthony Bolton, my colleague Tom Stevenson and fellow FT Money columnist John Lee....
...The pages brim with insights and anecdotes from Victorian explorers and papyri of ancient Buddhists, from little-known missionary diaries and weighty monastic tomes....
...I prefer my fires outdoors and with food grilling over them — but this is not just another hipster tome on barbecuing....
...Bergé has tomes I and II of an 1870 edition of the French writer’s Sentimental Education, several 1863 editions of Salammbô and four editions of Madame Bovary from 1856....
...Its patriarch has squandered the family fortune by spending decades writing a tome dedicated to the legend of the bird, and perches obsessively on a local hilltop waiting for its arrival....
...The conductor Anthony Barrese presides routinely over members of the Saint Louis Symphony and the Opera Theater’s excellent chorus of young singers....
...He dumped his sample tomes and his burden of shame in a privet hedge and legged it. He took an engineering apprenticeship and now fixes jet aircraft. This is useful and fun....
...Pickering, Anthony Calf is a middle-aged gentleman rather than an elderly one; he seems perceptibly younger than Martyn Ellis’s rotund, occasionally glowering but still disarming Alfred Doolittle....
...Tim Walker: Story Teller, by Robin Muir and Tim Walker, Thames & Hudson, RRP£45 A gorgeous coffee-table tome devoted to one of fashion’s newest photographic stars....
...The original sugar plantations were in fact in Brazil, centred on the Pernambuco province as early as the 1500s, using sugar cane root from the islands of São Tomé and Madeira....
...This giant tome, in a deluxe cardboard cover, has half a thousand pages of sumptuous photos, designs and effusive, sometimes intelligent, prose, taking you through Zeffirelli’s long multitasking, theatrical...
...Blair Unbound is more of a fascinating historical resource than a bedtime tome....
...Dickson says that unlike most financial tomes this book has not become irrelevant over the years....
...Horses By Yann Arthus-Bertrand Thames & Hudson £16.95, 336 pages FT bookshop price: £13.56 In our house of teenage girls, you cannot have too many equestrian tomes....
...Anthony Glossop, chairman, believes it would be easier to get backing if the new store was not an Asda. “I went to one public meeting where a local said he was against Wal-Mart [Asda’s owner]....
...The weightiest of these new tomes is the Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia: it cites personality traits that have had little place in the traditional view of the composer, such as complacency, arrogance and...
...Coleman declares oddly that he has consulted none of these tomes apart from the latter (and an early, good but sycophantic joint biography of Olivier and Vivien Leigh by Felix Barker)....
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