Hints and tips:
...Modern Gods , by Nick Laird, Fourth Estate, RRP£12.99/Viking, RRP$27, 320 pages Alex Preston is author of ‘In Love and War’ (Faber) Illustration by Dan Mitchell...
...Here we’d call on Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant, and the works of David Mitchell and David Foster Wallace....
...Lurid & Cute, by Adam Thirlwell, Jonathan Cape, RRP£16.99, 368 pages Alex Preston is author of ‘In Love and War’ (Faber) Illustration by Dan Mitchell...
...The hotspots for serious arrears were Warrington, Walsall and Preston, where householders owed an average £14,073....
...Richard Preston, a former board director at Cofunds, is now chief executive of Ardan International, a wealth platform....
...Northern cities were once storied by Dickens, Lawrence, Priestley, but where are the novels of today about Preston, Nottingham, Bradford? Congratulations to the towns of the M62 corridor....
...An area between Southport, Blackpool and Preston has some of the UK’s most promising resources and is the only place where fracking has occurred....
...But Preston, much as he did in a previous novel, The Ice Limit, wrongfoots the reader....
...Trevor Hemmings, the leisure entrepreneur, on Friday emerged as the latest investor in Mitchells & Butlers, the pub group that is the subject of an indicative offer from Punch Taverns....
...Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind, finds herself in bitter debate with a cynical Hollywood producer who wants to update her work....
...Katrina Preston, of Bridgewell Securities, says: “It’s really impossible to take a scientific approach to the goodwill,” she says....
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