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...Big Swiss by Jen Beagin, Faber £16.99/Scribner $27, 336 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Van der Velden’s designs come to life at an L-shaped bench, with the typical half-moon cut into it enabling the jeweller to work up close. A tool display board hangs above it....
...$25 Cusk’s fictional reworking of Mabel Dodge Luhan’s 1930s memoir concerns the relationship between its female narrator, identified only as “M”, and her male house guest, an artist known throughout as “L”...
...Which must make L’Intégral Anti-Age La Cure, its new skin-resetting regimen, at £775 for a four-week supply, a veritable tapis rouge....
...’s Actress (Jonathan Cape RRP£16.99/Norton RRP$26.95, February) and Aravind Adiga’s Amnesty (Picador RRP£16.99/Scribner RRP$26, February)....
...The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, £65,000 The first printing of the first edition of Hemingway’s debut novel, published in 1926 by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York, complete with misprints to prove...
...A new restoration of Bryan Forbes’s The L-Shaped Room (1962), playing at the BFI London Film Festival, reminded me of that, with its dingy Notting Hill lodging house and Bafta-winning performance by Leslie...
...The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster by Jodie Archer and Matthew Jockers. UK Allen Lane £20, US St. Martin’s Press $25.99...
...Zero K, by Don DeLillo, Picador, RRP£16.99/Scribner, RRP$27 At 79, the American master surprises yet again with a dystopian take on our desire to preserve life beyond its sell-by date....
...As evidenced by surprisingly weak April trends at L Brands, pressure at Macy’s and department stores, and specific issues at Gap, retail is in the midst of a transition,” said Oliver Chen, an analyst at...
...I wish l had known that at the end of the day compliance will be silenced by other forces. I wish I had known that the house always wins. I wish I was not so naive.”...
...This spring, the book was republished – this time by Scribner, a commercial publisher in the US. Now, a bunch of books on running has arrived at once....
...A.L. Bardach interviewed Castro for Vanity Fair in 1994, and is the author of ‘Cuba Confidential’ and the forthcoming ‘Without Fidel’ (Scribner)...
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