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...“And he would reply, “Oh no, I’d rather call you Miss Smith because we have a professional relationship.”...
...Face-to-face learning will still be the ticket for top executives, though, says Dominique Turpin, president of IMD in Switzerland....
...Payne’s new translation steers a generally steady course between cheekiness and gravitas, while his footnotes – which reference Delia Smith, Joni Mitchell and Woody Allen – add an eccentric gloss....
...The Ambassador, by Bragi Ólafsson, translated by Lytton Smith, Open Letter RRP$15.95, 298 pages Everyone in Iceland is either a musician or a poet, observes a character in Bragi Ólafsson’s gentle satire...
...Adrian Turpin is director of the Wigtown Book Festival and writes about debut fiction for the FT...
...Mike Thomas is a serving policeman: one hopes a more conventional one than his antihero Jake Smith, whose obsession with Vietnam war films, body-building and women’s feet sits ill with his job as a tactical...
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...Ali Smith’s excellent introduction expresses shock and delight that there is still fiction by Jansson untranslated into English. After reading this gem, who could disagree?...
...Adrian Turpin is director of the Wigtown Book Festival...
...One, David Jesner, likened him to Dick Turpin and called on him to resign immediately or be shown to be a “greedy, selfish charlatan”....
..., Craig Smith and Robert Crawford, won the award for ethics and social responsibility....
...Adrian Turpin is a freelance writer based in Edinburgh....
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