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...Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson, Doubleday £20/$29, 448 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Angell was born on September 19 1920, in Manhattan to Ernest Angell, a lawyer, and Katharine Sergeant....
...The UK Ministry of Defence lists hundreds of them in a document that runs to more than 370 pages....
...There are two Instagram pages, each with thousands of followers, dedicated to documenting his output....
...“It was real page-turner, and it was exciting because I was like: ‘Oh, well, it’s not what you think. It’s like, wait a minute, who is the good guy and who’s the bad guy here?’...
...He’s one of several stock types that Barry plays with — most explicitly in “Ox Mountain Death Song”, wherein generations of poor thugs are pursued by an equally long line of drink-prone sergeants....
...Detective Sergeant Pete Dutton, leading the investigation, has found no clue to its identity, “drowned, mud-plastered, bruised by sea chains....
...The Goose Fritz , by Sergei Lebedev, New Vessel Press, RRP£12.99, 322 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe. Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos...
...This is amiable enough stuff, and in the closing pages rather ingeniously plotted....
...Smoke and Ashes , by Abir Mukherjee, Harville Secker, RRP£12.99, 352 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe. Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos...
...His less illustrious successor, Bruce Rioch, had a sternness that was attributed to his sergeant-major father....
...Some, such as Sir Patrick Sergeant of the Daily Mail, he of the matinée looks who founded Euromoney, went on to distinguished careers in business....
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...Just occasionally you will feel an icy blast of stern morality: I, at least, felt a little alarmed on reaching the concluding pages of Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, when the fox is seen...
...Take Back the Sky, by Greg Bear, Gollancz, RRP£18.99, 296 pages...
...All this found its way into the opening 100 pages of my debut novel....
...The paper’s conservative editorial page was one of the few to endorse Trump but its news stance is summed up by a photo on Imel’s desk of Dragnet’s Joe Friday, stamped with the 1950s TV sergeant’s misattributed...
...“I am so happy to be able to tell someone about this, that our time has finally come”, wrote Senior Sergeant Tamara Davydovich to Alexievich....
...A Woman’s Work, by Harriet Harman, Allen Lane, RRP£20, 416 pages Sarah Gordon is the FT’s business editor...
...In 1941, in Egypt, a young British soldier and his fellow tommies received a “word of advice” from a “fatherly old sergeant-major” at their military camp: “Traffic’s very chaotic in Cairo — so, if you happen...
...Isis can count on external powers to act as recruiting sergeants: Shia-backed regimes in Damascus, Baghdad and Beirut will keep Sunnis alienated. We will still be talking about Isis in 2018....
...When the case came to trial, a police sergeant fainted when describing the scene in the bedroom, as did two women in the public gallery....
...The Discreet Hero, by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Edith Grossman, Faber, RRP£20/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$26, 336 pages Illustration by Shonagh Rae...
...Sounds like the perfect job for a tough drill sergeant....
...His unit, a sergeant and six teenagers, are all from La Paz — Bolivia’s administrative capital in the chilly highlands in the west — and unused to the climate here....
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