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...The Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy (WW Norton/Allen Lane) The foremost historian of Ukraine turns his attention to contemporary events....
...Norton cuts a dashing figure as he leaps on and off trains, evoking memories of Robert Donat in The 39 Steps....
...The peerless Kenneth Cranham, an actor who can drip menace like olive oil from a press, plays the mastermind, Brian Reader, with Timothy Spall as his resentful underling, Terry Perkins....
...spring include Graham Swift’s Here We Are (Scribner RRP£14.99, February), Sebastian Barry’s A Thousand Moons (Faber RRP£18.99 /Viking RRP$27, March), Anne Enright’s Actress (Jonathan Cape RRP£16.99/Norton...
...He has been accused of representing “The Norton Anthology School of Allusions”, and in the New York Times Book Review, XJ Kennedy, reviewing Ferlinghetti’s third collection of poetry — Starting From San...
...Nick Timothy, Theresa May’s former chief of staff, has advocated a Royal Commission but we do not have the luxury of time to kick this critical issue into such long grass....
...Modern terrorist outrages are often considered unique in their egoism but, in Mishra’s reading, the media event that was Timothy McVeigh’s spectacular murder of 168 people in Oklahoma City in 1995 was in...
...The writer is the FT’s US economics editor ‘The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and its Aftermath’, by Ben Bernanke, WW Norton, £22.99, $35...
...… How to Speak Money , by John Lanchester, Faber, RRP£17.99/ WW Norton, RRP$26.95 Most people have little idea what economists and financiers are talking about....
...Antony Beevor Author of Ardennes 1944: Hitler’s Last Gamble In Black Earth , Timothy Snyder forces us to look afresh at the greatest crimes of the 20th century....
...… Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises, by Timothy Geithner, Random House Business, RRP£25/ Crown, RRP$35 Geithner was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then Treasury secretary...
...Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, by Ira Katznelson, WW Norton, RRP£22/$29.95 Katznelson’s book offers the freshest perspective on the New Deal for many years....
...Thinking The Twentieth Century, by Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder, William Heinemann, RRP£25, 432 pages This volume puts into print a set of engaging conversations on 20th-century history that Judt, the...
...When Admiral Timothy Keating, the head of America’s Pacific command, met a senior Chinese admiral in 2008, he heard a surprising offer....
..., by Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus, Norton, RRP£12.99 Written before the Libyan war, this book examines the case for “liberal interventionism”....
...Paul Whitelock, of London-based lawyers Norton Rose, says the changes will have an impact on the way deals are done....
...Timothy Howe QC, a banking and finance expert from Fountain Court Chambers, says: “Because of the magnitude of this recession, we are seeing clients doing everything they can to avoid big messy litigations...
...Fuchsia Dunlop Food writer and author of ‘Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China’ (WW Norton) ………………………………………….....
...Tailors such as Norton & Sons now work with reflective fabrics for cyclists, while Timothy Everest has completed a year-long collaboration with Rapha to create a bespoke (or should that be be-spoke?)...
...“When I was growing up I was very much taken by Brideshead Revisited,” says tailor Timothy Everest, who trained under Tommy Nutter....
...Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life By Timothy Ryback Bodley Head, £18.99 Tracing Hitler’s intellectual growth through the books he owned, Ryback has created an intelligent companion...
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