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  • July 24, 2008

    A rummage in the corporate attic

    ...reputations to preserve implies that a company has the confidence to lay itself open to scrutiny, says former group legal director Pieter...the bank - which published a monumental study by the historian Frank H H King in the 1980s - also has a long tradition of commissioning... By Alicia Clegg
  • December 8, 2006

    Pick of the Year - Key words

    ...and Spain in America 1492-1830 by J.H. Elliott Yale University Press ₤25, 560...has inevitably been compared with Anne Frank’s. This time, the author, although...Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives by Frank Warren Orion ₤16.99, 288 pages “When...the many grubby confessions elicited when Frank Warren asked strangers to write anonymous... By Angel Gurria-Quintana, Harry Eyres, Jackie Wullschlager, Donald Morrison, David Baker, David Owen, Christian Tyler, Alan Cane, Stefan Stern, Jill Slotover, James Urquhart and Vidar Hjardeng
  • December 9, 2006

    Books: Pick of the Year - Key words

    ...and Spain in America 1492-1830 by J.H. Elliott Yale University Press £25, 560...has inevitably been compared with Anne Frank's. This time, the author, although...Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives by Frank Warren Orion £16.99, 288 pages "When...the many grubby confessions elicited when Frank Warren asked strangers to write anonymous... By David Baker, Alan Cane, Harry Eyres, David Owen, Slotover, Lisa Urquhart and Jackie Wullschlager
  • January 12, 2006

    Gasp, don't laugh, at this nightmare of inertia

    ...colourful scorn just asking to be scooped up and sloshed over the American war machine. Yet recent events in the Middle East lay a pall of triviality over this story. The ennui of a bunch of grunts frustrated because they cannot fire a rifle? If there...at the "Ride of the Valkyries" helicopter sequence in Apocalypse Now: these may make for a new-millennial M*A*S*H, but they seem like a clown wandering into a funeral instead of a children's party. By the time warfare finally begins...twogeishas is out of Dynasty by way of Desperate Housewives. Tosh, but handsome tosh for those in the mood. Dennis Hopper as Frank Sinatra? Set 'em up, Joe, and make mine a double. I need one to wash down the credulity-stretchers in The Night We... By Nigel Andrews
  • March 11, 2005

    The memory bank

    ...dependency (More, Now, Again). We’ve sympathised with Frank McCourt’s grim Irish upbringing in Angela’s Ashes, which begins...her suggestion, he sent it to a literary agent. ”There it lay - my whole life on a hundred pages of white paper. It didn’t look much...is to be a parent,” one story begins). As if fulfilling H.G. Wells’s prophecy that the novel would decline to be... By Ludovic Hunter-Tilney
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