Hints and tips:
...The first mystery to be confronted on picking up Holmes, Margaret and Poe (Century £20) by James Patterson and Brian Sitts is: why not “Holmes, Marple and Dupin”?...
...Or why was Barry’s character in Saltburn unapproachable at first, hiding behind his glasses with his chin pulled in, hunched over?...
...What’s the more common name given to James McNeill Whistler’s painting, “Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1”? Click here for the answers James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”...
...us in Hong Kong on March 11 for a breakfast event (8.15am-9.45am) with Miles Johnson, Financial Times investigative reporter and host of hit podcast Hot Money: New Narcos, and the FT’s Asia editor Robin Harding...
...The Magic Mountain meets James Bond, with an occasional sprinkling of Walt Disney. The hotel is an excellent place for a longer stay in the city....
...Here, the cuckoo is Oliver Quick, played by a game Barry Keoghan....
...Sumner Redstone, who would become one of Hollywood’s most eccentric characters and popularised the phrase “content is king”, transformed NAI into a global media empire, winning a battle with Barry Diller...
...“We were offered that discount, we didn’t try and drive the price down,” chief investment officer Barry Kenneth told the Financial Times, adding that the seller had offered that discount to all shareholders...
...Deutsche Bank has hired former Citi banker Alison Harding-Jones as global head of mergers and acquisitions, based in London....
...O’Sullivan’s team, which includes his husband and the business’s commercial director James O’Neill, are no strangers to the retail landscape; and they have ambitious plans for a long-term rollout....
...Judge and Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro described it as “a return on investment”, highlighting Ireland’s support for culture and literature....
...Specifically with the young actress Joan Barry, who filed a paternity suit against him....
...Its two most famous political sons, Barry Goldwater and John McCain, certainly fell in that category....
...When Barry Humphries died last week, a third ventricle burst in the hearts of many of his fellow Aussies. It was hard enough with Robert Hughes and Clive James gone....
...Viewpoints All the consequential elections around the globe have the appeal of student council president races, writes Robin Harding....
...As Yosser, Barry Sloane’s voice is as rough and gravelly as the black tarmac the five boys used to lay together....
...The lawsuit also charged Genesis’ former chief executive Soichiro Moro and DCG’s chief executive Barry Silbert with trying to conceal the $1.1bn in losses from the public....
...Modern (Sebastian Barry or Olga Tokarczuk), classic (Virginia Woolf or James Baldwin) or genre (Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Georges Simenon) — it doesn’t matter....
...As it is generally felt that James Ellroy and James Lee Burke are no longer producing their best work, two names jostle for pole position: Dennis Lehane and Don Winslow....
...It’s a smart and detailed look at the topic which hasn’t really had a deep reported dive since Barry Lynn’s The End of the Line back in 2005....
...Barry Forshaw is the author of ‘Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films’ Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...And still with mature male American writers: a nod for This Train (No Exit, £9.99) by James Grady....
...On our own pages, check out recent commentary by my colleagues Robin Harding, James Kynge, and Leo Lewis, as well as all the great reporting on the (bad) economic news from China....
...I’m hoping she might grace us with “The Ballad of Barry and Freda” on the piano, but I won’t ask. It turns out she is delighted by Dearie’s playing....
...Robin Harding Will the ANC vote fall below 50 per cent in South Africa’s election? Yes, just....
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