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...cousin of the Lambs emails Peter in 2005 with a detailed reminiscence of a family holiday in Wales in 1969, gives the background to another of the novel’s symbolic moments: the investiture that year of Charles...
...Bournvilleby Jonathan Coe, Viking £20/Feltrinelli Editore $15.99 In this affecting generational saga, framed by the pandemic and structured by seven milestone broadcasts, Jonathan Coe — known for his state-of-the-nation...
...COE Membership $270 per year; nysoclib.org The Portico library, Manchester When it was founded in 1806, Manchester’s Portico was open only to men for its first 60 years....
...(FT) How Charles Schwab ate Wall Street The investment firm was previously known as a discount broker for amateurs....
...When Jane Croly, a news reporter, was excluded from a dinner honouring Charles Dickens in 1868, she and other female journalists in New York formed the group....
...Nicknamed “Brighton’s cathedral” because of its great size, it was originally constructed to the designs of a young Charles Barry during a spate of early-19th-century church-building....
...“Anti-establishment comedy was a product of a more naive and deferential age,” the novelist Jonathan Coe wrote....
...“Judicial reviews can be used politically to put pressure on the government,” said David Greene, senior partner at law firm Edwin Coe....
...Sir Keith Mills, Lord Coe’s right-hand man at London 2012 and British sailing’s most passionate advocate, sees similarities between British sailing and British motorsport....
...Number 11, by Jonathan Coe, Penguin Viking, RRP£16.99 Like his acclaimed What a Carve Up!...
...Lord Coe, chairman of organising committee Locog, said it was important to keep the problem in perspective....
...He recently joined the board of the Department for Culture, Media and Sports sitting alongside Lazard’s David Verey, boardroom effectiveness specialist Tracy Long and Lord Coe....
...Coe won, amazingly: the voters may have taken pity....
...; or Jonathan Coe’s Thomas Winshaw, in What a Carve Up, who believed banking had become “the most spiritual profession” in its creation of an abstract world of complex derivatives....
...A flurry of books tracked the lives of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, born 200 years ago this year....
...So there’s only the small question of Charles Kennedy, former leader, who on Tuesday met a warm welcome at the conference....
...Clarke more in anger than in sorrow What do we make of Charles Clarke’s clearly premeditated and carefully planned attack on Tony Blair and John Reid, home secretary?...
...The favourite is Steve Redgrave, followed by Coe, Kelly Holmes and then whoever happens to be the reigning monarch. David Beckham is 33-1 and Bob Geldof is 500-1....
...Over lunch at Downing Street, Tony Blair, Michael Howard and Charles Kennedy put on a united front and shared in a photocall....
...How unsporting if Lord Coe mapped out the London dealerships of Renault, a Paris 2012 sponsor....
...Jonathan Coe’s The Closed Circle (Viking £17.99) is set against the millennium celebrations, an image of what was wrong with the country. Coe’s What a Carve Up!...
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