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...Black River by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Press)A work of literary fiction with a granular, compassionate outlook by the Delhi-based FT columnist....
...He collected artefacts of dubious provenance: the skull of Robert the Bruce, the musket of Rob Roy....
...Another sideline is the jewellery brand Mene, which she launched in 2017 with entrepreneur Roy Sebag....
...He quotes Walter Bagehot and impersonates Enoch Powell; he has a plaster statue of Clement Attlee in a storeroom....
...Justerini & Brooks now imports the wines of Walter Scott, Berry Bros & Rudd has Lingua Franca and Corney & Barrow has 00 Wines....
...A stellar cast of speakers include: Kingsley Pungong and Leo Cullen, respectively CEO and COO of Rainbow Sports Global, former professional footballers Eniola Aluko and Mikaël Silvestre, as well as Ebru...
...In Walter Scott’s novel Rob Roy (1817), a Glasgow merchant, Baillie Nicol Jarvie, scornful of opponents of the union with England, says “it’s an ill wind blaws naebody gude . . . what was ever like to gar...
...Dr Walter Grant Scott Scott Investment Partners,Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, UK Letter in response to this article: Returns are not driven by who owns the shares / From Roy Leckie, Edinburgh, UK...
...“He became a real resource for faculty,” said Ingo Walter, a frequent academic collaborator who helped recruit Smith to NYU....
...As a soldier on a German military ship in Italy during the second world war, the great footballer Fritz Walter found himself mobbed by sailors....
...The estates of several other 20th-century American artists, including Jackson Pollock, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Roy Lichtenstein, have also closed their authentication services, to avoid the...
...Walter Scott, William Hazlitt and Jane Austen were fans....
...She wanted Robert Armstrong dismissed, because he was friendly with Heath and Roy Jenkins, as well as Robin Butler because he had once attended a Private Eye lunch (she hated the magazine)....
...But like a few other science-fiction writers, Walter Miller among them, what Bradbury reacted so strongly to was the prospect of a future citizenry who hate and distrust books and learning....
...Notable members Theodore Roosevelt (US president), Thomas Nast (satirist), William Cullen Bryant (poet and journalist)....
...Roula Khalaf, deputy editor of the FT I loved Walter Kempowski’s All for Nothing (Granta, RRP£8.99), a masterpiece of a novel recently translated from German....
...Blair Walter, Greening’s winemaker, whose father was an agricultural spray pilot — “so I grew up smelling all these chemicals” — describes how their changing roster of interns love grinding the quartz to...
...“Where’s my Roy Cohn?” Donald Trump reportedly asked last year of his one-time lawyer and mentor, who died of Aids in 1986....
...Skybet chairman Paul Roy and veteran banker Rupert Faure Walker are joining him on the board....
...The old guard avoided making big promises to fresh recruits, says Roy Smith, a business professor at New York University and a former Goldman partner....
...Following the reverse takeover of Derriston, Sky Bet chairman Paul Roy and veteran banker Rupert Faure Walker will join the board....
...Friend of My Youth, Amit Chaudhuri’s brief seventh novel, has a beautiful title, borrowed from Alice Munro, and a striking first line, a quote from Walter Benjamin: “We have long forgotten the ritual by...
...Sir Martin and the two fellow board members of S4 — Paul Roy, chairman of Sky Bet, and Rupert Faure Walker, the managing director of HSBC Investment Banking — are all above retirement age....
...Lévy Gorvy has dedicated the slot to the Ben Day dot (named after its 19th-century inventor Benjamin Day), with works by Roy Lichtenstein, Sigmar Polke and Gerald Laing (up to $5m for the works that are...
...Walter Hallstein, German law professor, diplomat and first Commission president, is entertaining President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia....
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