Hints and tips:
...I’m safe at last. Belatedly, I have started reading Mick Herron’s Slough House spy thrillers, and have been devouring them at a rate of knots, for two reasons....
...I’m having a pause in which I re-read Percival Everett’s Erasure, the enjoyable novel that became the movie American Fiction, before diving into Herron’s standalone novels....
...“I’m not best pleased with them,” said Palmer....
...I’m the last person on earth to discover these books but I am very much enjoying making my way through them....
...Now try this I am approximately a thousand years behind the times on this one, but, I have just started reading Mick Herron’s Slow Horses on the bus to work....
...“Top asset managers are not saying ‘I’m king of the world’ and throwing money everywhere,” said Alain Bokobza, head of global asset allocation at French bank Société Générale....
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...My one unmissable highlight: I’m very keen to see Mick Herron, the brilliant comic spy novelist, whose work mixes humour, political satire and the best spy writing....
...One bit of housekeeping to start: I’m heading off to India for a couple of weeks to explore Kerala and attend Jaipur Literature Festival . . ....
...In late February, Edmond Franco and Jeremy Gregg bought a new multimillion-dollar condo apartment in Midtown Manhattan, going over their original budget by more than 50 per cent....
...Monté concludes: “In creating gallery objects, I feel I’m putting the material back on its pedestal.”...
...And it’s based on this series of books by Mick Herron, which are both very good, but also very funny. And it’s a great series which I really enjoy with Gary Oldman in the lead....
...For tonight’s meal I’ve chosen somewhere more elevated: Slough House, the dank headquarters of disgraced MI5 agents that appears in Mick Herron’s book series of the same name....
...I thought, ‘If I’m experiencing this and don’t do anything, my son will, too, at some point.’” Hbaish lobbied Dan Amiram, the then vice-dean who now runs the school, to increase diversity....
...Disappointingly, he doesn’t have time to watch TV but he loves the Mick Herron books, especially the Slough House novels. And like many British spies, he is a Bond aficionado....
...Job moves First Abu Dhabi Bank has hired Michel Longhini, the former Geneva-based head of Edmond de Rothschild’s private bank, to lead its global private bank....
...“He kept asking if I was Welsh, and I said no, I’m Irish, to which he replied, ‘Well, that explains everything.’”...
...And that person sits in this room, and they know exactly who I’m talking about. Well damn....
...So I’m honestly staggered to see that his 2019 village Vosne-Romanée, not a Premier or Grand Cru, is currently selling for £4,000 a bottle when most comparable wines are well under £100 a bottle (and used...
...May probably isn’t five times as famous as Noel Edmonds, but the premium seems reasonable for a 66-year-old ex-PM....
...Weekly highlights A rare M&A deal. Digital asset platform Bakkt has agreed to acquire crypto platform Apex Crypto for a price of up to $200mn....
...“I said, ‘I can’t make a TikTok, I’m 27’,” she says. “Then I looked around on there and saw that nobody else was doing it. And I thought, there may be a market for this.”...
...Slow Horses, an adaptation of Mick Herron’s novel about washed-up M15 agents, will debut on Apple TV on April 1....
...I’m thinking of it from the point of view of victims of crime. Why should they have to bring their own prosecution?”...
...“I think the world of Larry Fink, but I’m not sure I want him to be my emperor.”...
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