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...In Los Angeles, a squat, faintly Art Deco style desk in ebonised birch at which Jackie Collins wrote many of her wildly popular raunchy novels, sold in 2017 for £5,500 — more than twice its lowest estimate...
...Search of a Bird (Abacus)It’s the year for collaborative projects: this collection, timed to mark the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, includes tales by the likes of Ali Smith, Naomi Alderman, Yiyun Li and Helen...
...That quandary may explain the popularity of classic manuals such as Built to Last by Jim Collins....
...Helen Taylor, legal researcher at anti corruption group Spotlight on Corruption, said the case showed “just how challenging it [was] within the UK to undertake proactive sanctions enforcement....
...Helen Thornley, technical officer at the Association of Taxation Technicians, a professional body, said it would have been too difficult for HMRC to overhaul its Class 2 NICs system during the pandemic....
...Collins lost weight rapidly — eventually shedding 68kg in 18 months....
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...For Helen Thompson, the pandemic added fuel to the flames of a crisis that had been engulfing western democracies and the established global order for years....
...Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread, by Michiko Kakutani, William Collins, RRP£16.99/Clarkson Potter, RRP$25, 304 pages The renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic selects her list of must-read books...
...Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West, by Catherine Belton, William Collins, RRP£25/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$35, 640 pages An exhaustively researched and entertaining...
...Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Turned on the West Catherine Belton, William Collins, RRP£25/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$35 An exhaustively researched and extremely readable account...
...The other project, the Covid Human Genetic Effort, is led from the US by Helen Su of the National Institutes of Health and Jean-Laurent Casanova of Rockefeller University....
...Helen Gordon brings things down to earth in Notes from Deep Time (Profile, February) where she invites us to read the story of our planet in its landscape....
...Judith Collins, a senior National party MP and regular critic of Ms Ardern, praised her actions this week as “outstanding”....
...The judges were: Claire Collins, associate professor, director of diversity and inclusion, Henley Business School; Pavita Cooper, 30% Club steering committee; Helen Rose, chief operating officer, TSB; Jan...
...The writer is the FT’s work and careers editor A Good Time to be a Girl, by Helena Morrissey, William Collins, £14.99...
...Any show by this Australian cabaret queen — Absolutely Fabulous’s Patsy and Eddie, Joan Collins and Marlene Dietrich rolled into one — cries out for razzle dazzle, and her pre-Christmas romp with the London...
...French soul singer Ben l’Oncle Soul gave it a breezy funk-pop makeover in 2010 and his arrangement was borrowed by X Factor runner-up Marcus Collins in 2012....
...Facebook’s pan-European operations will be overseen by Helen Dixon, the Irish regulator, under new EU rules coming into effect in May that will tighten control over the use of private data by businesses....
...Letter in response to this article: Martinsburg claims the drug addiction crown / From Ian and Helen Henderson...
...In response to the paper, Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the RCGP, said: “We need to get the risk scores right....
...Though given reverent treatment by crystal-voiced folksters Joan Baez (in 1966) and Judy Collins (2000), manly sentimentality by Bing Crosby (1949) and Tom Jones (1969), and full-on New Age medievalism in...
...Certainly, David Gates and Helen Carnac — partners in life and based in studios near London’s Thames Barrier — do the same....
...Maureen Collins, a professor at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, says other interpretations are possible....
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