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...Julia by Sandra Newman Granta £18.99, 400 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Letter in response to this article: How charities boost spending on good causes / From Eleanor Sepanski, Partner, Boodle Hatfield, London SE1, UK...
...Rubbing shoulders with butchers and grocers, small establishments such as Bendito Vino y Vinilos are bringing in a new generation of customers, revitalising once-dusty spaces....
...Robert Hughes, a pensioner, said he was still struggling to decide which way to vote, having backed the Tories for many years....
...There’s a purple basil sour garnished with apple-y sunset oxalis, and a lemonade scented with cucumber, saffron and rose petals....
...The opening of Sandra Newman’s fifth novel purports to ask: what would the world be like if all the men in it vanished overnight? By “men”, Newman means “all people with a Y chromosome”....
...If a recession does end up sinking hardware sales, Oprah Winfrey’s 2019 reminder of Apple’s global reach in services could provide comfort to investors: “They’re in a billion pockets, y’all.”...
...In 1856 a local paper reported Margaret Hughes of Nant Syddion had miraculously given birth to quadruplets....
...Paradaisby Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes, Fitzcarraldo £10.99 Long-listed for this year’s International Booker Prize, Melchor’s follow-up to the widely acclaimed Hurricane Season focuses...
...“We’re on the verge of a new scene,” says Rushen, who has collaborated with Hughes....
...One type of battery it supplies to Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y is called LFP, which is free of cobalt, making it less flammable....
...He came across a document written in 1993 by a computer programmer called Eric Hughes. The document was called the Cypherpunk Manifesto....
...The old assault course clichés are less in evidence now, but the movement remains extremely demanding with constant kickbox-y tours en l’air and much slamming of the side walls....
...The foreign secretary on Sunday said that it was “not as simple as deciding you can willy nilly sanction X or Y”....
...“There’s been an awful demand for August, but I think it will keep going” said Ms Hughes, who runs a camping field as well as holiday cottages just outside the town of Betws-y-Coed, which is popular with...
...But if owning a fortified island all feels a bit Bond villain-y, there is a completely different prospect on the outskirts of Henllan, a village in west Wales....
...The adviser added: “The only game in town is to be centre left-y and that will have much more power if [the party leadership] can co-operate with a centre left Labour party under a more moderate leader.”...
...Clasping their purple hats and raising purple posters reading “enough with rape”, “don’t touch my mum” and “I’m not just a p***y”, November’s nous toutes (all of us) rally in Paris to protest violence against...
...The buyside was bracing for a 31-31.5% number, so the 34% y/y growth was a welcome relief....
...In it they tore around a field on tractors, wearing huge sombreros, and with Mr Sinclair chewing on a Romeo y Julieta cigar....
...There was only one circumstance in which being well connected was not much help: if you lacked a Y chromosome....
...But as Oprah pointed out at the Apple event last month, the iPhone is in “a billion pockets, y’all — a billion pockets”....
...UBS has hired Grant Thompson and Sandra Godard as managing directors from Wells Fargo, according to a memo seen by DD....
...When Samuel Johnson wrote the entry for usquebaugh, or whisk(e)y, in his dictionary of 1755, he made his tastes quite plain: “The Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour...
...Diego Muñoz, who devised the train’s menus, elevated his last restaurant, Astrid y Gastón in Lima, from 42nd to 14th in the world rankings....
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