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...England’s “glorious revolution” of 1688 was literally crowned by Holland’s William and Mary of Orange, who were invited to become sovereigns by London’s elite....
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...Williams — great grandson of JC Williams, who bred many renowned spring-flowering trees and shrubs including the original and perennially popular x williamsii camellias back in the 1920s — maintains the...
...Farewell Dinner for a Spy (Arcadia £20) is the seventh novel featuring William Catesby, a British intelligence officer....
...As well as its first tour with more generous funding, the company has a new general director in Robin Norton-Hale....
...Winser, Gummer and head chef George Williams have done that to pub food....
...Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck (Bodley Head/WW Norton) In August 1945 Indonesia became the first colonised country to declare its independence after the second...
...Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars by Tara Zahra (WW Norton) Discontent with globalisation has a history stretching back to the first half of the 20th century....
...I am happy to learn that William Kentridge, the South African artist whose new exhibition at London’s Royal Academy is one of the undisputed highlights of the cultural year, has chosen a lunch venue that...
...Former Salesforce co-chief Keith Block has launched Smith Point Capital with Vista Equity Partners’ Burke Norton and Longfellow Capital’s Chris Lytle....
...Their tie is a longtime friendship with tech mogul Miles Bron (Edward Norton, smarming it up), who has invited everyone for a murder mystery of his own design....
...Norton & Company $30.49, December 20, 2022 In the 100 years since TS Eliot penned his famous poem, it has taken on a life of its own....
...The Seven Moons of Maali Almeidaby Shehan Karunatilaka, Sort of Books £16.99/WW Norton $18.95 This year’s Booker Prize winner is a genre-defying tale of political subterfuge and murder mystery set during...
...The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Canongate)Eleven years after The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng is back with a fictionalised account of William Somerset Maugham’s visit to Penang in 1921....
...“International firms with Russian client lists face a loss of revenue but also major reputational and strategic problems,” said Tony Williams, founder of consultancy Jomati....
...William White, a former chief economist of the Bank for International Settlements, and Claudio Borio, who still works there (both cited approvingly by Chancellor) have indeed given us sobering and sometimes...
...Played by a swaggering James Norton, he’s an Apollo, with just a hint of Pan in profile....
...As what are the poems “Burnt Norton”, “East Coker”, “The Dry Salvages” and “Little Gidding” collectively known? On what date in 44BC was Julius Caesar assassinated?...
...Bewilderment by Richard Powers, William Heinemann £20/WW Norton $27.95, 288 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Drummer Butch Norton and bassist David Sutton make up the rest of the band....
...Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Turned on the West Catherine Belton, William Collins, RRP£25/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$35 An exhaustively researched and extremely readable account...
...In Deep: The FBI, the CIA and the Truth About America’s ‘Deep State’, by David Rohde, WW Norton RRP$30, 352 pages Peter Spiegel is the FT’s US managing editor Join our online book group on Facebook at...
...Surreal photography by Italian Jasmine Deporta and portraits by Athens-based British painter William Roper-Curzon can be bought from the walls of Shila, a new boutique hotel in a 1920s residence....
...Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers John Kay and Mervyn King, Norton, RRP$30 The future is not calculable. To believe that it is to commit a dangerous intellectual mistake....
...Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has added Ryan Cox and Eric Williams, two former Haynes and Boone partners to its corporate group in Dallas....
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