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...Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Jonathan Cape) An award-winning biographer of Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll and a professor of English literature at Oxford university, Douglas-Fairhurst...
...Robert’s stage four lung cancer diagnosis came from “nowhere”, Reed said. “He was 39, young, very fit and healthy with a young family.”...
...Robert Mantse, chair of M2 and who has previously worked for PwC, claimed in an emailed letter seen by the Financial Times that the private equity firm had to submit a final offer and proof of financing...
...Approaches from M2 Capital, fronted by chair Robert Mantse, descended into a war of words with administrators at PwC, after the investment firm was unable to prove it had the funds to back a deal that it...
...Lawyers at Shoosmiths, drafted in by PwC to help with the administration last month, wrote to Robert Mantse, chair of M2 Capital, on Monday to ask him to “direct all further communications” to them about...
...Eliot After The Waste Land (Eliot Biographies, 2)by Robert Crawford, Jonathan Cape £25/Farrar, Straus & Giroux $35 After a six-year wait, Robert Crawford follows up Young Eliot (2016) with his second (and...
...Two other Icahn nominees failed to win enough votes, paving the way for Illumina boss Francis deSouza and director Robert Epstein to be re-elected....
...The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens and the Worldby Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Jonathan Cape £20/Knopf Doubleday $28.95 Douglas-Fairhurst’s microhistory takes 1851, the year of London’s Great...
...Activists such as Wilkinson believe that pressure from their own employees may change that....
..., said Angela Wilkinson, head of the World Energy Council. Only a few state oil companies have set net-zero ambitions....
...Better still, read this with Isabel Wilkinson’s magisterial Caste, to get a powerful lens on an issue that now confronts (almost) everyone in business and finance today....
...Neither an NFL spokesman nor Beth Wilkinson, the attorney conducting the investigation, would specify a timetable for its completion....
...That out-of-time-ness of the Ness has now inspired nature writer Robert Macfarlane and artist Stanley Donwood....
...Robert Jenrick, housing secretary, said: “These changes will protect all renters and private landlords ensuring everyone gets the support they need at this very difficult time.”...
...Underland: A Deep Time Journey, by Robert Macfarlane, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£20/WW Norton, RRP$27.95 The nature writer ventures into the depths of the earth in this absorbing meditation on the layers of history...
...The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination, by Robert Holland, Yale University Press, RRP£25/$35 Since the 18th century and the age of the Grand Tour, Britain’s artists, writers...
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...In 1959, for example, it’s Daisy, in love with actress Suzannah, but married to starchy traditionalist Robert....
...Oliver Wilkinson, an Australian vet, set the current Manhattan record of five hours 44 minutes in 2011....
...Books, RRP£14.99/$19.95 Elizabeth Hardwick, one of the founding editors of the New York Review of Books in 1963, was a great American novelist and critic more often remembered for her marriage to the poet Robert...
...Robert Palmer, director of Tax Justice UK, a campaign group, says: “This is civil service language for ‘Why do we have this? It’s bonkers!’”...
...A small boy playing the hardline Catholic Robert Catesby persuades another to join his plan to blow up Parliament....
...A process to appoint Ms Wilkinson’s successor would begin “in due course”....
...Robin Wilkinson, the force’s director of people and change, said the Met was already having to make difficult choices about whether to pursue some fraud investigations....
...For new boss Nick Wilkinson, then, the best hope was no more dolour and no fewer pounds....
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