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...Website; Directions— Rebecca Rose, editor, FT Globetrotter Lasdun Upper Ground at the National Theatre, London SE1 9PX Lasdun has good bones and a great pedigree....
...She quotes Rebecca Solnit, Richard Powers’ Pulitzer-prize winning The Overstory, and regales me with the tale behind Robert Hooke creating his Micrographia....
...Meanwhile, leading bookstores, from Barnes & Noble in the US to Dymocks in Australia, now feature shop displays devoted to what’s trending on #BookTok....
...Rebecca Warburton, director of events and customer experiences, said Selfridges would offer couples “a truly unique way to get married this summer”, adding that the store would provide “custom packages”,...
...Herbert Smith Freehills has appointed Rebecca Maslen-Stannage as its first female chair. She will remain in Sydney during her four-year term. More here....
...Rebecca Long-Bailey, Labour’s shadow business secretary, said the move was a blow both to workers and to the government’s industrial strategy....
...Lee and Kennedy have selected weighty names, including Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes and Jenny Uglow, to excavate the domestic lives of past politicians, writers, artists and others....
...The Only Story , by Julian Barnes, Jonathan Cape, RRP£16.99/Knopf, RRP$25.95 Barnes’s latest novel is a poignant consideration of whether love is worth the pain and disappointment that so often accompanies...
...Barnes at his most bleak and brilliant....
...(FT) News round-up Anadarko pressed Occidental for cash, expecting investor opposition (Reuters) Readerlink works toward higher offer for Barnes & Noble (WSJ) Sizzling: Beyond Meat shares extend gains...
...In 1969, PH Newby accepted a cheque for £5,000 from the chair of the first Booker Prize jury, Dame Rebecca West, for his novel Something To Answer For....
...The Noise of Time, by Julian Barnes, Jonathan Cape, RRP£14.99/Knopf, RRP$25.95 Barnes’s reimagining of the life of Russian composer Shostakovich, and his difficult relationship with Stalin, is his best...
...Over the same period, Barnes & Noble closed more than 100 stores....
...They have just not discovered Montecito yet,” says Montecito-based estate agent Rebecca Riskin from Riskin Associates....
...It is co-owned and run by Rebecca Mascarenhas, one of London’s leading female restaurateurs, who initially opened a restaurant here in spring 2006....
...The first time I see Rebecca Dowbiggin, she is standing outside King’s College boathouse in Putney, finishing a packet of crisps....
...Additional reporting by Rebecca Knight...
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