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...As any Detroiter who was there will tell you, the stars were Kramer, his partner in guitar Fred “Sonic” Smith, and vocalist Rob Tyner, whose gigantic white-boy Afro and deeply committed stage presence gave...
...Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales, by PD James, Faber RRP£10, 192 pages...
...I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny, by Mick Houghton, Faber, RRP£20 Fairport Convention’s singer had one of the great voices of the 1970s....
...The past decade has witnessed a fashion for histories that zero in on single years as turning points: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto’s 1492, for example, when “our world began”, or Fred Kaplan’s 1959, when “everything...
...Fred Swaniker, Entrepreneur/networker Energetic and bursting with optimism about Africa, Fred Swaniker typifies a new generation of African entrepreneur and business networker....
...Winder recreates the mood of 1934, while providing a sort of triple biography of cricketer Hedley Verity, tennis player Fred Perry and golfer Henry Cotton....
...It demonstrates that with such writers as Loubière, Fred Vargas and Pierre Lemaitre, French noir is in the ascendant. Review by BF...
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...on the arrogant Fred Goodwin’s obsessive leadership....
...Andrew Martin’s latest novel, ‘The Baghdad Railway Club’, is published in June by Faber...
...The venue will be the Fred Toppler Foundation, an enclave of smug sophistry funded by a racy American widow....
...CLASSICAL Faber Pocket Guide to Britten, by John Bridcut, Faber, RRP£8.99, 352 pages Bridcut’s deft, entertaining guide appears ahead of Britten’s centenary year in 2013....
...His latest novel is ‘Capital’ (Faber) Howard Davies on the lack of business in modern British fiction …………………………………………………………….....
...It is a commonplace of modern criticism that celebrity is a recent invention: five years ago, Clive James blamed the US for “raising the cult of celebrity to a world-conquering ideology”, while Fred Inglis...
...Peoplequake: Mass Migration, Ageing Nations and the Coming Population Crash , by Fred Pearce, Eden Project Books RRP£12.99 Pearce’s polemic will infuriate campaigners who believe that tackling overpopulation...
...Sex & Violence, Death & Silence: Encounters with Recent Art By Gordon Burn Faber £20, 554 pages FT Bookshop price: £16 There is so much that is irritating about this collection of writing on contemporary...
...Ian Thomson’s ‘The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica’ is published by Faber in May...
...Sport Compiled by Simon Kuper The Last Champion: The Life of Fred Perry By Jon Henderson Yellow Jersey Press £18.99, 304 pages Perry may forever remain the last British man to win Wimbledon (in 1936) but...
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