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...Thomas Jordan said he would step down from the Swiss National Bank after 12 turbulent years....
...His work has a quirky sensibility that recalls Lorrie Moore or George Saunders, an ability to bring the unquestionably weird into the path of daily life without ever seeming forced....
...Camilla Akers-Douglas, Shaftesbury, Dorset Bark, by Lorrie Moore It’s been 15 years since Moore’s short story collection Birds of America....
...… Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard University Press, RRP£29.95/ Belknap Press, RRP$39.95 The blockbuster success of the year....
...But it is also compelling, given the number of women who excel at the art: Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore, Grace Paley, Claire Keegan, Ruth Thomas and Helen Simpson all follow in the footsteps of the great Katherine...
...Wolf Hall By Hilary Mantel Fourth Estate, £18.99 This year’s Man Booker Prize-winner is a convincing portrayal of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s chief minister....
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