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...Even Hui’s longstanding ally Joseph Lau, the Hong Kong property magnate, has begun to offload his company’s stake in Evergrande....
...Their choices included straight-down-the-middle business titles, such as Bryan Burrough and John Helyar’s Barbarians at the Gate, but also a great novel (Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, recommended for its insights...
...Join the FT Business Book Challenge team as we discuss Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar — a book synonymous with the greed, excess and egoism of the 1980s...
...William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg. How physically fit are you? I’ve had a bad three years. I broke my sacrum — I’ve got osteoporosis. It healed beautifully....
...Addressed to Maggs Bros, it was written by Joseph Conrad in 1922. “Would you care to take over either 50 copies of each for £200, or 60 copies of each for 200 guineas?” wrote the hard-up novelist....
...Joseph Pereira’s Mallet Quartet dealt in the shifting sonic textures of vibraphones and marimbas....
...… William S Burroughs: A Life, by Barry Miles, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£30 This scholarly biography of Burroughs by his friend argues that the writer was driven by his wife’s death....
...● Bryan Burrough has joined Investec Wealth & Investment as senior investment director in its London-based charities division. Mr Burrough was previously at BlackRock....
...In addition to Burroughs, Franz Kafka, JG Ballard and Jorge Luis Borges figure strongly, almost overshadowing Nelson’s art world influences, who include Joseph Beuys and Robert Rauschenberg, and the American...
...book and manuscript collection, dating from 1949 (the year of his birth) to 1984, and ranging from letters by JD Salinger and Jimi Hendrix’s handwritten lyrics to a copy of Naked Lunch boasting William Burroughs...
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