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...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...But by the time it was completed in 1819, the then monarch, Ferdinand VII, decided that the royal art collection (shaped by his predecessors Charles V and Philip II) should be exhibited instead....
...More recently, Gordon Napier’s film 1745 shows two escaped Nigerian slaves in the Scottish highlands, rather grandly dressed all in tartan....
...The Bureau of Past Managementby Iris Hanika, translated by Abigail Wender, V&Q Books £12.99 Hans Frambach works at the Berlin bureau that gives the novel its title, whose mission is to help the country...
...John V Baldwin Cernobbio, Italy...
...It’s a glamorous do at the V&A....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Ángel Gurría-Quintana …………………………………………………………….....
...Which might have had something of an impact on the headline numbers, particularly given that the average structured finance pay has fallen by 86 per cent, according to Napier Scott, the recruitment agency...
...What history suggests, however, is that the worst bear markets do not end with a simple V – which is alarming as the last four months have produced a perfect V on the charts....
...The current recovery fits the pattern of bear market rallies in terms of volume and the “V” shape of the trough....
...Russell Napier at Hong Kong brokers CLSA says a powerful bull market is already taking shape as the American giant reawakens. Perma-bears will be left behind. He said: “It is dangerous to be in cash.”...
...Angel Gurría-Quintana is the FT’s fiction reviewer ………………………………………………………....
...Garcia de la Concha, director of the RAE, recalls explaining to García Márquez what the suggested reforms (dropping accents, ditching the silent h, eradicating the differentiated use of g and j, and b and v)...
...“In 1997 I was lecturing on Clarice at Napier, the Art Deco town in New Zealand. A dealer there offered me a Clarice Cliff miniature vase with a Tennis pattern for £600....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...Riat Chairman The Bremic Hotel V....
...He goes on to recall an adage from the time of Emperor Charles V about Latin being the language to speak to God, and Hungarian being the language to speak to the devil....
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