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...Brad Stone, ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’ (2013) Favourite: Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller Sr, by Ron Chernow....
...Almost half of its funds, including those run by partners James Hanbury and Oliver Kelton, were later rebranded under the Brook name....
...Yalda Hakim, broadcasterBook: A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson “Jackson’s biography of Charles de Gaulle taps into the way I feel about Afghanistan....
...That’s because the spirit endures, and the bar encapsulates it: high stools, barefoot dress code, strong mojitos, cool breezes, big stories. nihi.com SR...
...Unlike Succession’s Logan, Obama Sr was not visible on every TV screen and every newspaper, but he still shaped his son’s outlook....
...Stop for a little coffee at HR Higgins, coffee supplier to the Queen, before walking down Brook Street for a dose of Art Deco....
...Great State: China and the World , by Timothy Brook, Profile, RRP£25, 512 pages James Kynge is the FT’s global China editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...To be sure, there were some white conservative names too, notably the NYT’s David Brooks, who is guaranteed to get a rise from the left, and The Atlantic’s David Frum, a prominent Never Trumper....
...His students included David Hammons and Kerry James Marshall, as well as the Los Angeles artist Richard Wyatt....
...Rules 35 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7LB Website | Directions Good for: ask Brian Silva, the straight-talking master barman, to make you a Charles martini (infused with grapefruit and a splash...
...Stretching from James Brown to J Dilla, the list sets up the span of this patchy but mostly excellent double CD....
...The turbulent emotions that Charles Mingus channelled into his compositions pushed musicians to their emotional and technical limits....
...This year’s line-up features 2ManyDJs and James Lavelle. “My advice?...
...I have added to my holdings in Air Partner and Charles Taylor, the insurance services group, and more recently, Christie Group, the business and leisure services group....
...At one point the line-up included former US president George Bush Sr, his secretary of state James Baker, former British prime minister John Major and former World Bank treasurer Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss...
...Contrast that with Rottingdean Bazaar, created by the couple James Theseus Buck and Luke Brooks, who sent out a model dressed only in supermarket price stickers....
...The pair, James Theseus Buck and Luke Brooks, live in Rottingdean on the Sussex coast, away from London’s pressures and assumptions. They create objects, pieces, garments, whatever tickles their fancy....
...“A settlement of that size that involved a complaint against Roger Ailes would hopefully have come to the attention of senior officials of 21st Century Fox,” says Charles Elson, director of Center for Corporate...
...Henry Mance is an FT political correspondent Illustration by James Ferguson...
...Paddy Harverson, former head of communications to Prince Charles, giving evidence to the trial, told the jury he had a conversation with Ms Brooks in August 2006 in which he had been told the Sun had a photograph...
...with a quartet of piano, saxophone, drums and bass, was built on the chassis of Davis’s “All Blues”, and her subsequent “Cruel Sister” replaced Jansch’s obsessive guitar pattern with a lyrical babbling brook...
...Bonhams has always been reticent about releasing figures, so I asked Brooks why he had now chosen to publicise the results....
...As the silhouette celebrates another birthday tomorrow, the anniversary of the day King Charles II introduced the waistcoat (known stateside as a vest) in 1666, brands from Brooks Brothers to Gieves & Hawkes...
...Women of 2012 Angela Merkel Lena Dunham Jessica Ennis Gu Kailai Rebekah Brooks Doreen Lawrence Yekaterina Samutsevich Aung San Suu Kyi Malala Yousafzai...
...The King’s Pictures: The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and His Courtiers, by Francis Haskell, Yale, RRP£30/$60 A connoisseur’s volume: the story of the European dispersal of Charles...
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