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...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...But by the time it was completed in 1819, the then monarch, Ferdinand VII, decided that the royal art collection (shaped by his predecessors Charles V and Philip II) should be exhibited instead....
...The Bureau of Past Managementby Iris Hanika, translated by Abigail Wender, V&Q Books £12.99 Hans Frambach works at the Berlin bureau that gives the novel its title, whose mission is to help the country...
...John V Baldwin Cernobbio, Italy...
...Herrera has increasingly been positioned as the female counterpoint to minimalist luminaries such as Ellsworth Kelly or Barnett Newman, and shares their love of coloured shapes and graphic planes....
...He adopted the typographic convention of describing recovery: “The first part . . . will look like a sharp V shape . . . but what does the last part look like?...
...“If we put more money into the NHS in England, all we say is that appropriate Barnett formula funds will go to Scotland....
...“At the time Burford had no relationship with Mr Barnett, whose fund did not hold any Burford equity,” the company said....
...spot discount, based on our estimates indicative of a potentially highly dilutive capital raise following the failed closure of the GBP395m retail park portfolio sale to Orion European Real Estate Fund V....
...“The whole issue has been a festering sore across the pensions industry,” said Malcolm McLean, of pension consultants Barnett Waddingham....
...(For more on Barnett, see this article.)...
...We’re also opening negotiations on a city deal with Edinburgh; we back the new V&A in Dundee....
...The funny numbers special to this market ran, that night, from $33m for Jeff Koons (a 9ft long Wild West toy train) to $84m for Barnett Newman, taking in Francis Bacon, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel...
...Suzi Feay Children’s The Terrible Two, by Mac Barnett and Jory John, Amulet Books RRP£8.99/$13.95 Schoolboy Miles Murphy thinks he is the greatest practical joker ever, until he moves to Yawnee Valley...
...“V (Island Song)” began with a piano making dissonant patterns alongside Barnett’s unmelodic sing-speak....
...General v specialised MBA The majority of business schools offer a general MBA programme....
...Today, the group’s flagship TPG V fund is still valued at less than 100 cents on the dollar, as several investments of more than $1bn in equity such as Washington Mutual and Aleris have already gone bust...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Typically, these are narrow-beamed with a deep V-shaped hull that does well in the short chop that Gulf waters are famous for....
...Daniel Barnett is a barrister at Outer Temple...
...Ángel Gurría-Quintana …………………………………………………………….....
...Journalist Adam Barnett said he believed in symbolism too: “But it must be reason-based, and not based on tradition and superstition.”...
...To Arthur’s energetic, hand-wagging stage direction, I did Crispin Crispian from Henry V, or “All The World’s a Stage” in the living room while my mother fried the gefilte fish....
...“Salford was probably a good idea at the time,” comments Steven Barnett, professor of communications of the University of Westminster and a sympathetic observer of BBC matters....
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