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...The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor (Jonathan Cape/Riverhead) The knowingly Whartonian title of Taylor’s second novel betrays the author’s deep interest in 19th- and turn-of-the-century literature....
...The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor (Jonathan Cape/Riverhead Books) Fresh from the success of his 2020 Booker-shortlisted debut Real Life, Taylor is back with another exquisitely written novel about sex...
...The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Canongate)Eleven years after The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng is back with a fictionalised account of William Somerset Maugham’s visit to Penang in 1921....
...Green — portly, with grey-white curls slicked back from his balding forehead and stubble peppering his jowls — has the permanent tycoon-tan of a man with his own jet and yacht....
...In the UK, trading was “robust”, helped by the endorsement of its St Tropez fake tan brand by supermodel Kate Moss, said Mr Leigh....
...The Manchester-based group, whose UK products include Imperial Leather soaps and St Tropez self-tan, said on Tuesday that profits rose to £107.5m for the year ended May 2013, boosted by revenue from Africa...
...“People think that when its raining people will go home and self-tan more in the absence of the sun,” said Brandon Leigh, chief financial officer at PZ Cussons. “But it doesn’t quite work like that....
...“I’ve been moving tree stumps with my tractor,” the 90-year-old says, as he dusts off his tan trousers and white T-shirt that reads “Idlewild, Michigan: The Black Eden”....
...He said September’s £62.5m acquisition of St Tropez Holdings, a fake tan brand which has operations in Australia and the US, would help the group roll out its UK Sanctuary product line overseas....
...The St Tropez business grew as consumers became more aware of the dangers of sunbathing, and turned to fake tan instead....
...I’m generally a “reformed” P2P technologist, but I was sweating it out a bit sitting across from Brandon Burgess, the a top VP for NBC Universal....
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