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...Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld (Doubleday/Random House)An off-the-wall love story that follows the romantic travails of a TV comedy scriptwriter from the author of Rodham and American Wife....
...Barnes at his most bleak and brilliant....
...The decline of book chains such as Barnes & Noble and Borders makes it harder for publishers to exercise distribution power by pushing their favoured titles through marketing incentives....
...Jonny Geller of Curtis Brown, the London agent who negotiated the deal, said: “What’s been fascinating is the amount of print books they’ve sold with no visibility in Barnes & Noble or anywhere else....
...The world-famous Curtis Institute of Music offers free tuition to all its students, along with the loan of a Steinway grand....
...“The [housing] stock is the same as Belgravia’s essentially,” says Barnes. “Large stucco-fronted period houses”....
...“We’re conscious of what is happening with food, alcohol and tobacco, and there’s a recognition that we need to get our house in order,” says the SMMT’s Simon Barnes....
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