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...So begins the first-person narration of Tim Weaver’s The Blackbird (Michael Joseph, £14.99), when the victims of a catastrophic car crash are not found in the tangled ruin of their vehicle....
...Special thanks for merchandise to: Chris Harper at Elliott Harper for Company. Frankie Deakon at Global Marketing Group for Chicago. Ruth Tiffen at Playbill Group for Matilda....
...and Anna X from Joseph Charlton....
...Here are five books you need to understand the Biden presidency: Promise Me, Dad by Joseph Biden (Macmillan, £16.99) Biden’s most recent memoir came out early in Trump’s administration....
...Every citizen must serve a two-year tour on the Wall as a Defender, and a new arrival, Joseph Kavanagh, acts as our eyes on this bleak, indescribably cold sentence....
...“These relationships are long and investors remember when you try to take advantage of a situation,” said Joseph Baratta, global head of private equity at Blackstone in New York....
...More impressive still is Denise Gough’s performance as pill-popping Mormon housewife Harper Pitt, which has grown in control and intensity since this production’s first outing at London’s National Theatre...
...Cohen has written for the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine and the London Review of Books, among others. In 2017 he was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists....
...the full-lengths steal the show, it is the more intimate portraits of family and friends that steal our hearts — whether the fresh-faced little boy in his cap by the court painter to Marie Antoinette, Joseph...
...The Dry , by Jane Harper, Little, Brown, RRP£12.99/Flatiron Books, RRP$25.95 The chorus of praise for this thriller has been resounding....
...The prime minister is a big fan of Joseph Chamberlain, the Liberal statesman who held office from 1873 to 1875. Nick Timothy, her joint chief of staff, is his biographer....
...I learned later that the name he gave me and other attendees, Harper Black, was fake. ————– Even those who romanticise the lawlessness of the original California gold rush acknowledge it eventually required...
...AUGUST … Forest Dark, by Nicole Krauss, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99/Harper, RRP$27.99 A Tel Aviv-set novel from the author of The History of Love (2005)....
...Queen of the Night, by Alexander Chee, Michael Joseph, RRP£14.99/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$28 As sumptuous and operatic as the colourful 19th-century world it describes, this is the story of Lilliet...
...SCMP Group, which also owns the Hong Kong editions of the magazines Esquire, Elle, Cosmopolitan and Harper’s Bazaar, said it expected to record a gain of about HK$1.4bn from the asset sale....
...Nathanael West and Joseph Heller are hooting from heaven for this one. If you haven’t already read Paul Beatty’s The Sellout (Oneworld/FSG), your life is the more meagre for the omission....
...and 20th-century British politics demands an understanding of Joseph Chamberlain, who split the Liberals over Irish Home Rule and the Conservatives over Tariff Reform....
...In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing and the Mysteries of Love, by Joseph Luzzi, William Collins, RRP£16.99/Harper Wave, RRP$25.99, 304 pages...
...The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047, by Lionel Shriver, Borough Press, RRP£16.99 / Harper, RRP$27.95 (June) A family suffers the consequences of economic meltdown in Shriver’s satire of a near-future America...
...John le Carre: The Biography, by Adam Sisman, Bloomsbury, RRP£25 / Harper, RRP$28.99, 672 pages In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974) the aged spymaster George Smiley is recalled from retirement to investigate...
...What links the titular 18th-century acting dynasty with the boy Joseph, who in 1990 comes to live with his reclusive uncle in Spitalfields?...
...Arena 13, by Joseph Delaney, Bodley Head, RRP£12.99 Delaney’s new series after his bestselling Spook’s saga introduces Leif, a provincial lad who runs away to Gindeen city to join the ranks of teenage gladiators...
...Joseph Evangelisti Chief communications officer JPMorgan Chase, financial services 5....
...But most readers will agree with Joseph Stiglitz, who wrote in his FT review: “Martin Wolf has outdone himself....
...Designer Joseph Altuzarra has a sell-out in his Senegal fringed wool and cashmere diamond knit (£1,215). “This year we’ve seen a much higher demand for our special knitwear pieces,” he says....
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