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...Salman Rushdie said that “Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed”....
...The power of the Dublin speech was a reminder, perhaps, of the truth voiced by John Grigg, who as Lord Altrincham (and therefore all the more scandalous for the popular and conservative press) had, in the...
...Constructed as a first-person diary, Scurr’s book illuminates and poignantly captures the voice of a man more often a “ghostly record keeper” in his own writing....
...The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust, by John Coates, Fourth Estate, RRP£20 No one is better qualified to analyse the biology of banking than Coates...
...I had no name and no identity number; all I had was a copy of the police report handed to John, as the official “finder”, and a mobile phone snapshot of the infant that he’d taken....
...Aksel’s limitations as both person and narrator are most evident in his veneration of Anja. She is his “guardian angel”, and “makes beauty seem like a matter of course”....
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