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...The pair found themselves less swinging than sinking — in a Notting Hill basement living in Patrick Hamilton-style penury....
...Highlights Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo — who is the greatest of all time? FT duo Simon Kuper and John Burn-Murdoch have been running the numbers....
...The club’s wage bill surged to €728mn last season, according to Football Benchmark, thanks to the star-packed front line of Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Neymar....
...Driver Lewis Hamilton is targeting his sixth title for Mercedes and seventh in total....
...Over salmon and pasta, the footballer discusses the next stage in his campaign, battling with politicians, the downsides of media attention and what makes Lionel Messi great. Read it here....
...Whenever I switch from Brexit or climate change to trying to grasp exactly how Lionel Messi beats defenders, I feel as if I’ve shifted from low to high....
...Lionel Barber, FT editor The Light That Failed: A Reckoning (Allen Lane, RRP£20) is a brilliant, original book on the crisis of modern liberalism....
...Lionel Shriver Author of Property: A Collection I rarely seek out short stories unless I trip over them in The New Yorker....
...Lake Success , by Gary Shteyngart, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99/Random House, RRP$28, 338 pages Lionel Shriver is author of ‘Property’ (Borough Press) Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe...
...Hamilton Lane, a private equity investor, has hired Martina Schliemann as a principal and head of business development for Germany, Austria and Switzerland....
...Kitamura is a writer who, as Lionel Shriver put it in the FT, is skilled at describing “fine shades of feeling”....
...Not better — for technical greatness, the era of Roger Federer and Lionel Messi can look any other in the eye — just more interesting....
...Her next show, which will run during the Edinburgh fringe festival in August, is a set about the life of Emma Hamilton, mistress of Horatio Nelson....
...Autumn, by Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99 The ever-inventive Smith has embarked on a real-time seasonal quartet....
...Hot Milk, by Deborah Levy, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£12.99 In a hot, dry, underemployed Spain, 25-year-old Sofia arrives with her mother Rose to find a cure for the latter’s obscure and obsessive ailments....
...Hot Milk, by Deborah Levy, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£12.99, 224 pages Lionel Shriver’s new novel ‘The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047’ is published by Borough Press in May Illustration by David McConochie...
...It is a “good kind of weird” novel, Lionel Shriver wrote in an FT review, where Ms Levy is able to convey “out-of-kilter surreality without ever violating the rules of realism”....
...(FT) 2016 is the new 1800 So says Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the blockbuster Broadway hit Hamilton. (Rolling Stone)...
...When you watch Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo play football, they are running and kicking a ball, which more or less anyone can do — only they do it much better....
...Lucy Kellaway FT columnist Imagine Me Gone (Hamish Hamilton/Little, Brown) is about a father who kills himself and a son who later does the same....
...Hot Milk, by Deborah Levy, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99 A new novel by the author of the Man Booker-shortlisted Swimming Home....
...More recently, he has brought US hits such as Avenue Q to London and will bring Hamilton, the hip-hop musical about the 18th-century founding father Alexander Hamilton, in 2017....
...So as my good deed for the day, allow me to recommend more of his backlist: Hamilton Stark, Continental Drift and Rule of the Bone. Enjoy. Lionel Shriver is author of ‘Big Brother’ (HarperCollins)...
...Jane Owen Lionel Barber Editor of the Financial Times In How Music Got Free , Stephen Witt tells of how technology in the form of the MP3 digital format brought the music industry to its knees....
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