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...Goldman Sachs’ global treasurer, Philip Berlinski, is leaving the bank after 24 years for New York-based hedge fund Millennium Management, according to two people familiar with the situation....
...Music always plays a big part during the day “from traditional carols to Mariah Carey’s Christmas concert” but Christmas never really begins until The King’s Speech. “I never miss it,” says Machin....
...The competition watchdog forced the owners of MFG’s rival EG Group to sell some sites when they bought Asda this year....
...Philip Shaw: No....
...Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings is another West Coast entrepreneur who can take credit for disrupting an entire industry....
...and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership Peter Hubbard Managing Partner, Anthony Collins Solicitors Amanda Melton Principal, Nelson & Colne College Adrian Mitchell Owner, Mitchell-Interflex Emma Carey...
...A Long Way From Home , by Peter Carey, Faber, RRP£17.99/Knopf, RRP$26.95 Peter Carey tackles Australia’s troubled relationship with its indigenous past, for the first time, in this rip-roaring tale of a...
...Wildlife, his first film as a director and co-writer, is a compelling, beautiful tale of 1960s Montana....
...No Angel, Tom Bower’s biography, opens with him striding across the paddock with Mick Jagger and Naomi Campbell, and greeting Jennifer Lopez and Sir Philip Green....
...“The idea of a digital device upon which you can do very little other than read, was like manna from the gods for publishers,” says Philip Jones, editor of the Bookseller magazine....
...But parents know they have to tread carefully in the world of Rumpelstiltskin and co....
...And Philip Pirrip (Pip) memorably described his new lodgings as “the dingiest collection of shabby buildings ever squeezed together in a rank corner as a club for Tom-cats”....
...No low-key ghostwriter for his new memoir, then, but a Booker Prize-winning co-author....
...Investors saw little in Mr Carey’s comments to justify the bid hopes....
...with Faber; while Myrmidon is to co-publish The Garden of Evening Mists with Canongate in March 2013....
...Grimm Tales , by Philip Pullman, Penguin, RRP£20 The His Dark Materials author retells 50 of the Grimm brothers’ stories, some familiar, others not....
...Parrot and Olivier in America , by Peter Carey, Faber RRP£18.99 The latest offering by Australia’s prolific Carey is a picaresque romp through 1830s America featuring a coddled French aristocrat, Olivier...
...Apart from international offerings with strong commercial appeal, such as Never Let Me Go, a US-UK co-production based on the bestselling novel by Kazuo Ishiguro and starring Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley...
...By Richard Ascott and Philip Colbert Next month: Rodnik’s search for an angel. www.rodnik.co.uk...
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