Hints and tips:
...I was thinking as I read Prima Facie of how engaging and propulsive the courtroom drama is as a literary form, from Zadie Smith’s The Fraud and Ian McEwan’s The Children Act to the more generic pleasures...
...Ashtrays abound in the collection and for The Garden (on show at Sullivan + Strumpf’s Sydney gallery just as the biennale opened), he mixed the trademark flora of much-loved early modernist Margaret Preston...
...Amid the glut of pandemic fiction, the best — Ali Smith’s Summer (2020), Sarah Moss’s The Fell (2021) — approach the virus as a springboard for commenting on wider political issues, or use it to focus on...
...Laura likes The Cabin by Natasha Preston and other books about the outdoors....
...“The age difference is quite meaningful actually,” said Samuel Preston, a professor of sociology at University of Pennsylvania....
...“Pretty much all the moisture has gone from the soil,” said James Preston, the company’s technical director....
...A Cage Went in Search of a Bird (Abacus)It’s the year for collaborative projects: this collection, timed to mark the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, includes tales by the likes of Ali Smith, Naomi Alderman...
...Preston Llewellyn: No....
...Elizabeth Tabas Carson, a partner at Reed Smith, said selling companies have typically assisted private equity firms in raising deal financing, but at the very least may become less keen to do this....
...Iain Duncan Smith, John Redwood, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Lord David Frost are all heavily tipped for key roles in a Truss administration....
...While THG is best known for selling lipstick and protein powder to image-conscious consumers, its breakneck run of acquisitions has also included a string of esoteric smaller businesses, such as a Preston-based...
...Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwellby John Preston, Viking £18.99 The colourful career of the media magnate and his mysterious death — did he fall from his yacht in 1991, or jump?...
...Washington Redskins to rename The new calls follow the decision by Events DC, the local conventions and sports authority in the US capital, on Friday to remove a statue of the late Redskins team founder George Preston...
...Coming up: Join DD’s Robert Smith for a look back at some of the most high-profile accounting scandals in recent years with Carson Block, the short-seller behind Muddy Waters Research....
...Smith lives in Long Preston, a village near Settle — the wider area is home to Yorkshire’s Three Peaks 12-hour challenge....
...James Preston Temprano Capital Partners, Madrid, Spain Letter in response to this letter: The Bond Street of Porto is a shadow of its former self / From Stephen Hazell-Smith, Penshurst, Kent, UK...
...That first trip in 2015 was “overwhelming”, Mr Preston recalled....
...I’d also recommend Ali Smith’s up to the minute Autumn; Winter; and Spring (Penguin Books, prices vary); a serious but jaunty look at how so-called austerity has made us less resilient....
...“It’s short, relatively cheap and easy, and it goes through three constituencies,” says Smith. “It’s a no-brainer, politically speaking.”...
...(FT) What you’ve been saying Time for . . . a rebrand — letter from Cliff Hayes, Preston, Lancs, UK Forget “Time for Real Change”....
...Stephen Hazell-Smith Penshurst, Kent, UK...
...Stephen Hazell-Smith Penshurst, Kent, UK Letter in response to this letter: Portugal’s industry is dynamic and vibrant / From James Preston, Temprano Capital Partners, Madrid, Spain...
...KFC opened its first overseas outpost in 1965 in the small industrial city of Preston, in the north of England, before even McDonald’s had reached the UK....
...A few days after Bekker’s death, his employer, an American mining investor called Preston Haskell, hired a private detective. Clement Jackson was a leathery Afrikaner, a former police colonel....
...Thanks to Alphaville friend Rob Smith for finding this gem: All very confusing....
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