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...Loungers, which listed in 2019 and trades under the Lounge, Cosy Club, and Brightside brands, has accelerated the rollout of new sites as it takes advantage of the relative lack of demand for real estate...
...Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán, translated by Sophie Hughes (4th Estate)A nightmarish examination of the life of a live-in maid who dies — and the toxic family and societal relationships that surround her...
...Specialist fund managers are one of the few areas of the sector to have ridden out the worst of the downturn in valuations, as well as continuing to attract funds to manage....
...From the Oxfordshire estate where the nonagenarian has sat out much of the pandemic with his former supermodel wife Jerry Hall, Murdoch resolved to launch his own station, said people familiar with his thinking...
...with Philip Michael Wolfson and David Gill before joining David Collins Studio....
...And as the popularity of the period-estate-agent-cum-lifestyle brand The Modern House shows, the contemporary interior is not contemporary at all, but rooted in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s....
...Closing this gap by cutting costs on everything from technology to real estate, as well as staff, would equate to an approximately €450m boost to Pernod’s profit....
...“The gaps between the haves and have-nots is widening,” said Christopher Elvin, head of private equity products at Preqin....
...The Darcy played by Colin Firth in Andrew Davies’ 1995 BBC adaptation barely calls for description: as Firth emerged wet-shirted and virile from the lake on his estate, women all over Britain went weak at...
...Perhaps because of the difficulties the register will face, estate agents have reacted calmly....
...Denny Tu Head of strategy and planning, Sky 99. Dorothy Burwell Partner and head of natural resources, Finsbury 100....
...The Wallcreeper/Mislaid, by Nell Zink, Fourth Estate, RRP£20/published in US by Dorothy (Wallcreeper) and Ecco (Mislaid) Two oddities in a single yellow slipcase: debut novel The Wallcreeper, published...
...In broad terms the sector (which does not include financials services and real estate) represents around 10% of the economy, about the same size as manufacturing but has seen growth rates in some quarters...
...Sterling might start to crash forcing a Bank of England tightening. Real estate market would likely have some air taken out of it. Huge self-inflicted wound....
...Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolours, by Christopher Lloyd, Thames & Hudson, RRP£24.95 The story, as Cézanne’s friend Joachim Gasquet wrote, of “the most acute sensibility at grips with the most searching...
...Inside Conducting , by Christopher Seaman, University of Rochester Press, RRP£19.99 This view from the rostrum has already established itself as the friendliest of guides to the mysterious art of conducting...
...Broker Collins Stewart forecasts 2011 sales of £355.7m with adjusted pre-tax profits of £38.1m....
...The Age Atomic , by Adam Christopher, Angry Robot, RRP£8.99, 416 pages The sequel to last year’s Empire State sees Christopher’s “pocket universe” alt-Manhattan under threat from earth tremors, endless...
...Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, by Jim Collins and Morten T Hansen, Random House Business Books, RRP£25 Collins, author of business classics such as Good...
...Mr Collins invested $600m of equity from Ripplewood and co-investors into the buy-out in 2007 of Reader’s Digest, the venerable magazine publisher....
...The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here, by Lynda Gratton, Collins, RRP£18.99, 384 pages As futurology goes, Gratton’s book is more practical than most....
...“Barclays trades at a discount to its peers despite being seen as a post-crisis winner and share price volatility has spiked, a reflection of its investment bank-heavy earnings,” said analyst Christopher...
...His cellist son Christopher acts as a gentle foil. Between them they amusingly blend the genres of misery memoir and Mediterranean escapist idyll....
...It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower By Michela Wrong Fourth Estate £12.99, 368 pages The eponymous whistleblower is John Githongo, who spent two years as Kenya’s anti-corruption tsar...
...Mr Hill said on Tuesday he would become chairman when Christopher Sporborg retires at the end of the year....
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