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...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Gain: headlong action brio and a cast of overnight Hollywood stars-to-be (McQueen, Bronson et al). Loss: length, character complexity and the loving build-up of an epic momentum....
...House, San Francisco; Jane Robinson, London Polymath 1,053: Martyn Haley, Conwy, Wales Crossword 16,350: PJ Morsan, Winchester, England; Andrew Palfreman, Hull, England; Richard Heaton, London Polymath...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Only at Oxford did they acquire the qualities that Johnson et al already had: a ruling-class accent, rhetorical skills and the ability to feel confident in any establishment setting....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Andrew Clark …………………………………………………………….. POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...Lib Dems in local government who face electoral disaster because of the growing unpopularity of Clegg, Cable et al at a national level....
...“A rally past the first week of May would force us to reconsider this view, as it would suggest a ‘V’ bottom is more likely.”...
...These will include seminal pop culture artefacts such as a smashed guitar by The Who’s Pete Townshend, and the original score of Jesus Christ Superstar....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Musorgsky’s four-hour epic dramatises the turmoil preceding Peter the Great’s accession but carries modern resonances in Vladimir Putin et al....
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...Jancis Robinson....
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