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ReviewNon-Fiction
The Book of All Books — Roberto Calasso’s paean to biblical myth
...The novelist Sebastian Faulks once remarked that “of the 100 greatest stories ever told, 99 are probably in the Old Testament and the other is in Homer.”...
December 16, 2021
UK politics
English courts face reduced judicial review powers under new plans
...In 2004 an ouster clause included by then home secretary David Blunkett in an asylum and immigration bill had to be dropped after an outcry....
March 18, 2021
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
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Saturday, 7 September London, UK
UK politics
Former top UK judges sound alarm over court review
...“We are against coming to any snap decisions after a review which has been very short in its timeframe and is on a very serious subject,” said David Greene, president of the Law Society....
November 17, 2020
FTfm
Asset managers question value of lavish sponsorships
...Our support for conservation and for these awards is central to that purpose,” said David Aird, managing director of Investec AM’s UK client group....
February 9, 2019
Life & Arts
The battle for the Booker Prize
...None of the five of us — my fellow judges were David Baddiel, Russell Celyn Jones and Salley Vickers, admirably chaired by the late Professor Lisa Jardine — had ever heard of Martel....
February 1, 2019
Life & Arts
Wellington College and the housing market in Crowthorne, Berkshire
...Yet author Sebastian Faulks and Pop Idol winner Will Young conjure different associations to Ronnie Kray and Charles Salvador — better known as Charles Bronson, dubbed “Britain’s most violent prisoner”....
March 18, 2016
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
ReviewLife & Arts
My Name Is ..., by Alastair Campbell; A Possible Life, by Sebastian Faulks; The Elephant Keepers’ Children, by Peter Høeg
...Review by David Evans … A Possible Life, by Sebastian Faulks, Vintage, RRP£7.99, 304 pages A Possible Life is billed as “a novel in five parts” but it feels distinctly like two novellas and three largely...
October 11, 2013
Luke JohnsonWork & Careers
The joy of getting copyrights for a song
...It can require paying fees to characters such as David Pullman, the flamboyant banker who created and trademarked the Bowie Bond....
October 22, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
The tipping point
...It’s not a problem Faulks overcomes....
September 14, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
With Our Backs to the Wall
...Secondary schools ship children across the Channel on trips to the Ypres and Somme battlefields, while readers swarm to buy novels set during the conflict by authors such as Pat Barker, Sebastian Faulks...
May 27, 2011
Life & Arts
Adapt or die?
...Not so, explains Lesley Thorne who, as director of Film and TV Rights at the literary agency Aitken Alexander Associates, sold the rights for the recent BBC TV adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong....
February 10, 2012
FT AlphavilleGwen Robinson
Gathering storm: hedgies assess the future
...following the Japanese pattern and who recommended a 50 per cent portfolio weighting in government bonds as of last week” – and his pessimistic colleague Dylan Grice; the ever-bearish Gluskin Sheff economist David...
October 20, 2010
Westminster blogJim Pickard
Britain’s new peers – the full list of 56
...John Monks: gen sec of European TUC (and previously head of national TUC) Maeve Sherlock: former chief exec of the Refugee Council Jim Knight: former education minister Don Touhig: former MoD minister David...
May 28, 2010
Global Economy
Dramatic take on downturn is box office hit
...The latest, and most eagerly awaited, work to address the events of last year is David Hare’s play The Power of Yes, which opened at London’s National Theatre last night....
October 6, 2009
US politics & policy
Linguist says US intelligence spied on Blair
...Making the allegations to ABC, David Faulk, a former NSA Arabic linguist who worked for the spy agency at Fort Gordon, Georgia, claimed to have had access to a top secret database called “Anchory” in 2006...
November 25, 2008
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Terrorism
NSA probes eavesdropping allegations
...But Adrienne Kinne and David Faulk, two former linguists who worked at the NSA facility in Fort Gordon, Georgia, said they often listened to phone calls between Americans working in Iraq and their families...
October 22, 2008
Capital markets: Outlook starts to worsen
...“People look at Kazakhstan and see there are some issues, but over the longer term, if you believe that oil prices have upshifted structurally, the outlook is fairly positive,” says Mr Faulks....
June 30, 2008
Asia-Pacific equities
Kazakhstan economy causing alarm
...Ben Faulks, credit analyst for Kazakhstan at S&P, said: “Kazakh banks are far more vulnerable than their peers because $14.8bn in debt matures this year....
May 8, 2008
NotebookPolitics
Conservative chic in the post-Blair age
...For the coolest kid at school was the troubled one glowering in the corner, not the shiny-faced “me-too” boy, desperate to fit in with everyone, that David “Dave” Cameron so resembles....
May 29, 2008
Work & Careers
Posthumous publishers who refuse to live and let die
...Its publishing director of estates, David Brawn, says keeping an author’s name alive is not about profit. “It’s about keeping the flame alive and protecting the integrity of their work.”...
August 16, 2007
Nicholas LanderLife & Arts
The last year of eating out inexpensively
...It has been wonderfully satisfying to return and still enjoy what David and Rona Pitchford are doing, and have been doing for 30 years, at Read’s in Faversham, Kent, or the exuberant Baba Hine at the Corse...
December 28, 2007
Nicholas LanderLife & Arts
Houston, we have lifts
...But this was my fault and nothing to do with the good food being cooked here by husband and wife James and Emma Faulks and their sous-chef David Abbott....
February 23, 2007
ReviewFT Magazine
The world’s a page
...Engleby By Sebastian Faulks Hutchinson £17.99, 352 pages FT bookshop price: £14.39 Faulks ditches wartime France for England in the 1970s and creates an unforgettable narrator in his intellectually precocious...
June 22, 2007

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