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...In a tale by CJ Lyons, we hear of a “terrified, lonely, bored little boy” with polio hooked up to an iron lung....
...Links (all FT links get you past the paywall): – Fourteen Days, edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston, is out now where books are sold....
...You just need a little co-operation on price to get the deals done,” said Andrew Dittmar, an analyst at Enverus. The deals bonanza is likely to be confined to oil, said bankers....
...Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead, Little, Brown £20/Doubleday $29, 336 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...This was partly because of Israel’s hostility to the Franco dictatorship, which lasted from Spain’s 1936-1939 civil war to 1975 and was at times ferociously antisemitic — as set out in Paul Preston’s book...
...Preston Konrad, a media-friendly style expert, advises that viridis — a shade not far off algae-green, from British paintmaker Graham & Brown — is one of this year’s hottest colours....
...Tomás Nevinson, Marías’s 15th novel, seems to contain a little of all of these types....
...Finally, Preston recounts the savagery of two civil war generals, Emilio Mola and Gonzalo Queipo de Llano. As Preston writes, Franco believed fervently in the Jewish-Masonic conspiracy theory....
...“We consistently invest too little,” notes Torsten Bell, head of the Resolution Foundation think-tank....
...A little while ago Bloomberg published a short piece which has stuck in my mind ever since....
...It turns out that Little Ray is having an affair with Molly, a snowplough driver, but this doesn’t stop her seducing her son and marrying Elliot, the diminutive English teacher at Exeter....
...The firm’s automated mining drones appear to have wiped out a little-known cleaner fish, the venomous lumpsucker. This is “a bumpy, greyish fish about five inches long fully grown....
...Preston Llewellyn: No....
...“We have a cult following, which offers a little insulation,” says Rosenzweig. Despite the US being the group’s biggest market, Carlson isn’t overly concerned about reports of a “richcession” there....
...Vuokko has been lost to history, although a little digging shows that she was murdered by White Russian troops during the Finnish civil war of 1918....
...Preston Mui at Employ America writes: For months, the Fed has been telling a story that “pain” in the labour market will be necessary to bring down inflation ......
...Employers will have little choice but to pay workers more, keeping inflation hotter and rates higher....
...The bans were so long ago and so little remembered that it is hard to imagine how much potential was suppressed....
...His recovery is slow and tentative, but with each new iteration of his life he is a little better, and the reader cheers him all the way....
...In Hove, a little stretch of beachfront properties along the Western Esplanade is known as being the area’s “millionaires’ row”....
...It turned out the group’s members did have personalities after all, and they were crotchety and a little bit mean....
...Despite the book’s subtitle, it also conveys little suspense....
...Preston has been one of the English-speaking world’s premier historians of modern Spain....
...At 74, he has eased back on his “day job” but shows little sign of winding down. As he puts it: “I work a three-day week and a four-day weekend.”...
...James Preston Temprano Capital Partners,Madrid, Spain...
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