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...David Cornwell, who wrote as John le Carré, had no time for James Bond. Ian Fleming’s pasteboard hero, scoffed the younger spy-turned-author, “on his magic carpet takes us away from moral doubt”....
...The scattershot of grand writerly personalities throughout John Walsh’s coming-of-literary-age memoir sometimes makes you want to duck for cover....
...Hotel and club pioneer Ian Schrager, British architect John Pawson and French designer François Champsaur are behind The Madrid Edition’s contemporary, sophisticated look, with impressive attention to detail...
...Theatre (Lyttelton), London There are fireworks and fights aplenty in The Motive and the Cue, but the image that lingers from Jack Thorne’s brilliant, compassionate new play is of two household names, John...
...I mean, come on, John Lee Hooker…” Gore nods slowly. “Yep, John Lee Hooker, Tom Waits, Ian Curtis, John Lydon.” One image that stands out for Corbijn, however, is a portrait of Nelson Mandela....
...Bright room. Loud music. Too many courses. Tall flowers. Low chairs. Boring guests. And what if you want to leave early?...
...“There’s an expectation that chefs are meant to work this way,” Ian Hodson, the national president of the bakers’ trade union, tells me....
...“January was very warm and very unsnowy compared to normal and weather effects like that do not persist,” said Ian Shepherdson of Pantheon Macroeconomics....
...Murray £25/Knopf $35, 512 pages Ian Bostridge is a tenor and author of ‘Schubert’s Winter Journey’ (Faber) Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...In the foreground was the tiny chapel of St John, in the distance snow-capped Mount Ida, the highest of the mountains that dominate the Cretan landscape....
...He submitted his first short story to a magazine at the age of 15, inspired by the likes of Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Asimov....
...John Lansdown joined P&O Ferries as a 16-year-old apprentice more than 20 years ago, and was working as a sous-chef when he was sacked last month....
...Ian Fleming chose the name Bond for his spy because he thought it was “the dullest name I’ve ever heard”....
...Prospects remain bright, though fairly priced....
...“Amados” (Loved Ones), from 1969, is a group portrait of hippiedom’s usual prophets, including William Blake, Arthur Rimbaud, Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Aretha Franklin and John Coltrane....
...Size matters in broking,” said John Ludlow, former chief executive of Airmic, a trade body that represents insurance buyers and risk managers within companies....
...The cast was headed by the bright mezzo-soprano of Sasha Cooke as Guinevere; Matthew White, a Lancelot with a strong if dry tenor; Norman Garrett, baritone, who stood stolidly but sang forthrightly as Arthur...
...programme of pit closures overseen by her appointee as chair, Ian MacGregor, a Scots-born American executive with a mandate and an appetite to close mines fast....
...Another wears bright red socks, a white Catalina jacket and a red-and-white gingham shirt — and jeans. Unlike classic Ivy style, these looks are bold, individualistic and worn to be seen....
...“This is a sign that they don’t see a bright future with the election next fall.”...
...Those who wish to make a celebration of those whose lives have been lost might turn to John Booth....
...There’s an old, coffee-ringed copy of Ian Nairn’s Nairn’s London, bulging with his evocative ponderings on architecture, pubs and markets....
...He hitched himself to a great generation of British writers, including Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens....
...john.thornhill@ft.com...
...Meanwhile, John Finucane, Mr Coulter’s solicitor, said his client faces five charges. “This follows a police investigation which has lasted in excess of five years,” he said in a statement to the FT....
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