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...Bournvilleby Jonathan Coe, Viking £20/Feltrinelli Editore $15.99 In this affecting generational saga, framed by the pandemic and structured by seven milestone broadcasts, Jonathan Coe — known for his state-of-the-nation...
...The cost of an open category COE, which enables the purchase of any kind of vehicle other than motorcycles, rose 5 per cent in June compared with May to S$100,697....
...Current regulars include Kazuo Ishiguro, William Boyd, Lady Antonia Fraser and Andrew Marr. “Our members publish around 800 books a year,” Marshall reveals....
...“If they really want to see the numbers go up, they’ve got to get rid of the CoE,” said William Heinecke, chief executive of Minor International, which owns the Anantara brand....
...Read with gusto by Kristin Atherton (mentioned here previously as the narrator of Jonathan Coe’s Mr Wilder and Me) and Jon Glover, The Liar’s Dictionary is a real balm of a book....
...Atherton ably captures its humour, its cast of characters (William Holden and Al Pacino feature) and its poignancy....
..., a highly entertaining and ingenious online-only drama, adapted from Jonathan Coe’s 1994 novel and co-produced by three theatres (the Barn, the Lawrence Batley and the New Wolsey)....
...William Atkins is the author of ‘The Immeasurable World’ (Faber & Faber, £10.99)....
...William Faulkner spun out a perfect 1,288-word sentence in Absalom, Absalom!...
...It also has a musical soundtrack composed by Benjamin himself, and no doubt channelling his twin influences of the more arcane end of 1970s progressive rock and the English pastoral of Ralph Vaughan Williams...
...We raise our TP to DKK480 (from DKK300) on higher estimates and lower WACC (10.54% vs 12.60% on lower CoE for Danish stocks, higher gearing) and upgrade Pandora to Buy from Hold with 39% implied upside....
...Middle England , by Jonathan Coe, Viking, RRP£16.99 Brexit-laced novels may be à la mode, but Coe’s “serio-comic” investigation into Englishness goes back way further than 2016’s referendum....
...Sir Andrew’s company, William Cook, is 177 years old and one of the few in Sheffield still in family hands....
...Jeremy Paxman is an FT contributing editor Photographs: Alamy; Getty Letter in response to this article: A mission to rediscover the CoE’s true purpose / Richard Scott, Exeter, Devon, UK...
...In a note to its customers this week, one of the UK’s largest premium wine importers, Enotria & Coe, said prices would rise at the start of October....
...But after a $2.4bn merger with Hollywood talent agency William Morris Endeavour, IMG’s competitors sense opportunities....
...Number 11, by Jonathan Coe, Penguin Viking, RRP£16.99 Like his acclaimed What a Carve Up!...
...They are an American-inflected, cyber-age equivalent of the prank letters mailed by “Henry Root” (William Donaldson) to prominent Britons in the late 1970s....
...William Kroll, of Tender Co, says: “People want to feel connected to their jeans.” He makes about 200 hand-dyed pairs a year (at £235 each)....
...It is now a four-star B&B with five large rooms including the Caithness, at the top of the castle, which has impressive views over Loch Creran and the mountains of Glen Coe....
...I laughed out loud before the London Olympics when Lord Coe said, “as you quite rightly point out, there are people that have bought tickets that have subsequently had babies”....
.... ——————————————- Lord Coe, chairman, British Olympic Association How are you spending the summer?...
...Labour costs in France are among the highest in Europe at €36.84 an hour compared to €36.24 in Germany, €22.94 in the UK, €22.43 in Spain, €8.88 in Slovakia and €3.82 in Romania, according to Coe-Rexecode...
...The deal is likely to be completed once Lord Coe has paid £100,000 to buy out the 7 per cent of his company held by other shareholders, including the foreign secretary, William Hague....
...But his political career was not over, and he was appointed as chief-of-staff to William Hague, the inexperienced new Tory leader....
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