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...Such was the following they received that Richard L Simon and Max Schuster in 1924 published the first crossword puzzle book, an early output for what was to become the foremost US publishing empire....
...L Catterton, a consumer-focused investment firm, has hired Peter Chang as managing partner and co-head of private credit. He joins from Oaktree Capital Management....
...Fairy Tale by Stephen King, Hodder & Stoughton £22, 592 pages/Simon & Schuster $32.50, 608 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...“L’heure des bleus”, the opening section, pairs a group of Monet’s water gardens with Mitchell’s fluid panorama “Quatuor II for Betsy Jolas”....
...Boney enjoyed Betsy’s frank and irreverent company so much that he would become impatient when she wasn’t around....
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...There are childhood favourites: notably Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time (1962), the first novel Kakutani, as a bookish little girl, discovered for herself, and Sendak and Seuss too....
...Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L Trump, Simon & Schuster, RRP$28, 240 pages Edward Luce is the FT’s US national editor Join our online book group...
...Staeger Clear Packaging, which makes plastic packaging for cosmetics brands including L'Oréal and Estée Lauder, is among other companies that have forged their own path to help boost NHS supplies after hearing...
...Ingestion of a different kind features in The Most Dangerous Man in America by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L Davis (John Murray RRP£14.99, April; already available in the US), which relates an episode in...
...Periwal was formerly at L&L Partners. Smart reads Clean as a whistle People in the business world can suffer from reputational blowbacks in the seconds it takes someone to google their name....
...L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated ‘Female Byron’, by Lucasta Miller, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25/Knopf, RRP$30 Letitia Landon or LEL as she styled herself,...
...The Future is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-First Century, by Parag Khanna, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£20/Simon and Schuster, RRP$29.95 A serious and well-documented attempt to make the case that the...
...That water has been used to great effect at one of my favourite hotels in Morocco, L’Ma Lodge, in the centre of the palm grove....
...The writer is the FT’s metals and mining correspondent Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power, by Meghan L O’Sullivan, Simon and Schuster $29.00...
...… Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought and Work, by Susan L Mizruchi, WW Norton, RRP£18.99/$27.95 Biographers have often highlighted Marlon Brando’s eccentricities....
...… The Medici Boy, by John L’Heureux, Astor & Blue, RRP£14.99/$24.95 A tremendous historical tale evoking the creative fervour of Renaissance Florence....
...He is very good on Antonioni, Monica Vitti and the entrancing final seven minutes of L’Eclisse....
...That Used To be Us: What Went Wrong with America – and How It Can Come Back, by Thomas L Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, Little, Brown, RRP£25 A prominent journalist and an academic argue that America...
...So warmly has Sarkozy spoken of the US that the French press has dubbed him “l’Américain”....
...‘House of Holes’ by Nicholson Baker is published by Simon & Schuster, £14.99. Katie Roiphe is a professor at New York University...
...Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier, by Edward L Glaeser, Macmillan, RRP£25, 456 pages Glaeser is one of a number of ardent urbanists...
...Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalisation, by Gordon Brown, Simon & Schuster RRP£20 Brown’s book, to be published on December 6, is characteristically less personal and more cerebral...
...A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity By Jan Egeland Simon & Schuster £18.99, 272 pages As UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, Jan Egeland was dubbed “the...
...Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth from Talent in the 21st Century Organization By Lowell L. Bryan and Claudia L....
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