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...Companion Piece by Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton £14.99, 400 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...Hector Langfeldt, Birmingham; Saira Kamaly, London Polymath 1,036: Eamonn O’Riordan, Ireland Crossword 16,248: Nicholas JP Weaver, Manchester, England; Steve Clark, London; DIA Cohen, New York Polymath 1,035...
...Hamilton Lane has hired Jean Reynolds and Stephanie Davis as it looks to expand its business development team....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...David Smith, London TF: Around two-third of revenues from FTSE All Share companies are derived from outside the UK....
...One of her Flamingo Vases is on show at Hamilton & Inches in Knightsbridge (around £1,800) while her wine coolers can be found at Eric N. Smith in Glasgow and Primavera in Cambridge (from £5,000)....
...It had real creative energy in the 1970s and 1980s, when bands such as Joy Division and The Smiths established its musical credibility....
...Emily Smith, winner of two Smarties Awards for this age group, succeeds again in Joe v. The Fairies (Corgi £3.99)....
...Riat Chairman The Bremic Hotel V....
...Each issue rounds up the coolest of literary names - from Zadie Smith to Jonathan Safran Foer and David Foster Wallace - and appears in a skittish variety of forms....
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