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...Goldman Sachs to summarise: EBIT (+13.5% YoY growth) and retail cash flow slightly ahead of consensus, helped by delivering Booker synergies one year ahead of guidance....
...Memories of London publishing from before the mid-1980s are clouded by more than a tinge of nostalgia — even among those who weren’t there. Publishers were independent....
...Yglesias doesn't seem optimistic about the bill's chances of getting passed....
...However, that doesn’t help the pre-tax profit in the last six months: this has more than halved to £7m after £4.6m of “non-underlying costs” and “the impacts of acquired businesses”....
...“You can’t understand American notions of freedom without including American notions of slavery,” says founding director Lonnie G Bunch III....
...A haunting novel by the Albanian winner of the inaugural International Man Booker Prize....
...The stage plays of the Booker Prize winning novel series by Hilary Mantel — recently dramatised for television by the BBC — opened on Broadway this week, to mixed reviews from New York critics....
...Prince Charles can’t get enough of those. jonathan.guthrie@ft.com Booker: alison.smith@ft.com...
...Some actually make it to the screen (Al Pacino as Richard III) but most don’t (Jon Voight as Robin Hood, anyone?)....
...Hilary Mantel’s novel, a Man Booker Prize-winner last year, is a transfiguring experience....
...“I don’t want racial bigots. We’re not from Louisiana . . . We’re in Kansas and I don’t treat anyone that way.”...
...A Life of Picasso: Volume III: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932 By John Richardson Jonathan Cape £30, 555 pages FT bookshop price: £24 Gossipy, profound, insightful and non-judgmental, Richardson is terrific...
...His love affair hasn’t abated since....
...What Wilson doesn’t know about east European football isn’t worth knowing....
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