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...The Marriage Portraitby Maggie O’Farrell, Tinder Press £25/Knopf $28 Readers expecting the all-consuming poignancy of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet may feel a little short-changed by her latest novel....
...Sarah O’Connor responds Ed, while you were in a hotel restaurant in New Delhi on September 11, I was attending my second day at sixth form college in England....
...Christine Centenera, fashion editor and co-founder of Wardrobe NYCExit West by Mohsin Hamid is about a young couple who are forced to leave their families while escaping a war-torn country....
...Just-finished news packages are loaded on to a running order controlled by Soraya Amiri, the twentysomething producer of the six o’clock news....
...Additional reporting by David Sheppard, Anjli Raval, Seth O’Farrell and Michael Hunter in London, Michael Peel in Brussels and Robin Harding in Tokyo...
...The paved road ends at M’Hamid, about 25km from the Algerian border, after which you need a driver who knows the desert. Our plan was to spend three nights in a camp by the Erg Chigaga dunes....
...Michael O’Leary, chief executive, said Mr Bellew would be responsible for improving working conditions for pilots as part of a “significant transformation.”...
...But last week I read in Fast Company that Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, has become chief storytelling officer at the image consultancy Wolff Olins....
...at EY ——————————————- Winners: EY UK Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2014 Private equity backed and UK overall winner Rosemary Squire Ambassador Theatre Group Health products and services Deborah O’...
...O fficial poll figures are not expected until July 22....
...Both Hanif and Hamid have moved back to Pakistan after spells in the UK and US....
...It features musicians including Sinead O’Connor, Courtney Pine and Sophie Ellis-Bextor as well as comedy and literature events....
...Then I narrowed that list of ten down to five: 1) Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O Hirschman, by Jeremy Adelman 2) The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, by Tim Harford 3) Giving Kids a Fair...
...In Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), the Ivy League-educated Pakistani narrator vehemently rejects his role as a “janissary” of American capitalism....
...At the intersection of the Ken-O expressway and highway 254, about 30km northwest of Tokyo, a huge logistics facility is about to take shape....
...How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia , by Mohsin Hamid, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£14.99/Riverhead, RRP$26.95 Short, clever, genre-busting: Hamid’s unnamed narrator stars in his own self-help book and we follow...
...New limits on the foreign ownership of mines have effectively closed the sector to new international investment, says Kevin O’Rourke, a political analyst in Jakarta....
...Collected Poems , by Sean O’Brien, Picador, RRP£20 From the surety of his first collection The Indoor Park (1983), O’Brien sustains a 30-year career in verse, with a near-icy hand for precise expression...
...Samar Gull, who described himself as a cousin of one of the dead men, said US forces had stormed his relatives’ home in Surkh Rod at one o’clock in the morning....
...“He’s a huge asset,” said Major Ryan O’Connor. “He’s covering space right now where Isaf and coalition forces do not have a large and constant presence.”...
...The two tiny houses represented on the longlist, Tindal Street with Catherine O’Flynn’s What Was Lost and Myrmidon with The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng, were both unlucky in the final account....
...Hamid Karzai, Afghan president, warned last week after reports that 51 civilians were killed in the west of the country that Afghanistan “can no longer accept civilian casualties”....
...Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a different can of worms entirely....
...Its sophistication scored O’Brien a third Forward prize for best collection this year....
...Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, is due to address parliament in Ottawa tomorrow. Mr Harper and his supporters will be counting on him to provide more ammunition against their critics....
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