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...Over in the world of apparently real life, the novelist DBC Pierre’s Big Snake Little Snake (Cheerio, 4hrs 26 mins) takes the listener on a quite wild journey to Trinidad and Tobago, where Pierre has gone...
...DBC Pierre’s back-story itself slots into the “fact is stranger than fiction” category....
...The author’s background was obscure, right down to the initials DBC — for Dirty But Clean....
...Invesco’s $783m commodity index tracking fund, known as DBC, has registered a loss of just under 30 per cent in 2020....
...Nielsen once tallied the books sold in the week before and after a Booker win — sales of DBC Pierre’s Vernon God Little went from 509 copies to 8,627 copies, a leap of 1,595 per cent....
...DBC Pierre walks into the pub carrying a backgammon board he has played on since childhood....
...Jason Bloom, PowerShares’ director of commodities and alternatives research, says the average holding period for DBC was 1.75 years among the 60 per cent of fund holders the company is able to track....
...DBC Reed Northampton, Northants, UK...
...The PowerShares DB Commodity Tracking ETF (DBC) has seen almost half the money invested in the ETF flow out with assets falling to $2bn....
...martin.wolf@ft.com Letter in response to this column: New Labour direction puts focus on land taxes / From DBC Reed...
...DBC Reed, Northampton, UK Letter in response to this letter: Needless subsidy can end tomorrow / From Mr Tony Foster...
...The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon....
...From Mr David Starkie CPRE supports house building / From Mr Shaun Spiers Consigned to a life of serfdom / From Mr Nicholas Bradbury One kind of land tax may provide an exit from housing trap / From Mr DBC...
...The book is reminiscent of DBC Pierre’s Lights Out in Wonderland, which similarly assays fine dining and late capitalism from the perspective of a damaged and unreliable narrator....
...When Tanya Ronder’s adaptation of DBC Pierre’s novel premiered at the Young Vic in 2007, Sarah Hemming observed that it caught “the wild energy and pitch-black comedy” of the book, but not its nightmarish...
...Lunch with DBC Pierre is not for the faint-hearted. Legends swirl around him; the launch party for his first novel was rumoured to have gone on for days....
...Lights Out in Wonderland, by DBC Pierre, Faber RRP£12.99 317 pages Gabriel Brockwell, 26-year-old poet, anti-capitalist campaigner and narrator of DBC Pierre’s third novel, superficially resembles Hamlet...
...Discovered Authors martin.wolf@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/martinwolf ——————————————- Letter in response to this column: One kind of land tax may provide an exit from housing trap / From Mr DBC...
...The DBC tracks the DBLCI-Optimum Yield excess returns index....
...DB’s fee hikes, meanwhile, apply to its composite commodity and agriculture funds (DBA and DBC) but also to funds tracking individual commodities as diverse as silver, oil and dollar index futures....
...nominated for the Olivier Award for outstanding musical; Tintin proved so popular that it was revived for the West End and a UK tour, and Vernon God Little managed the seemingly impossible feat of bringing DBC...
...The only two previous first-time novelists to have won were Arundhati Roy in 1997 for The God of Small Things and DBC Pierre in 2003 for Vernon God Little....
...Woodward, which recently bought DBC Foodservice, is thought to be having trouble bedding down the acquisition....
...“No doubt [DBC] will democratise futures trading,” he says....
...LUDMILA’S BROKEN ENGLISH by DBC Pierre Faber & Faber £12.99, 318 pages In 2003, a 42-year-old former con-man and drug addict, DBC Pierre, shocked the literary world by winning the Man Booker Prize for his...
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