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...Blackstone estimated it paid about £300mn to buy St Katharine Docks as part of the broader deal for Max’s portfolio....
...In 2008, Effron brought Handler and his co-head of technology banking at UBS, David St Jean, to Centerview as the firm’s first non-founder partners....
...One longs for the bite that Edward St Aubyn brought to the subject in his 2014 novel Lost for Words. Likewise, several of Greer’s stylistic tics are laboured....
...Edward St Aubyn’s 10th novel is certainly less about verisimilitude than it is about — well, it’s hard to sum up exactly what Double Blind is about....
...In Mother’s Milk, the greatest of Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels, this sense of home and body as one takes on a more surreal edge....
...At Bridget’s party in Edward St Aubyn’s Some Hope, Princess Margaret acts as the most invigoratingly horrible common enemy anyone could ask for — after the French ambassador spills sauce on her and she forces...
...“The reality is there is no evidence — the return to work has been too disrupted by Omicron,” said Zachary Gauge, head of European real estate strategy and research at Swiss bank UBS....
...(St Aubyn, remarkably, is in her first acting role.) For Martha and Franklyn, everything that is not each other shortly falls away. But the party keeps the quotidian at bay for all....
...At the St Aubyn family’s Cornish castle, a house party in 1938 has a famous guest, film star Marlene Dietrich, resisting attempts by the Nazi party to dragoon her....
...Meanwhile, Edward St Aubyn, well known for his dissolute and damaged Patrick Melrose novels, explores new ground with Double Blind (Harvill Secker, March), which will touch on the fields of “ecology, genetics...
...Still, when your most scholarly and high-minded friend admits to being an ardent fan, and author Edward St Aubyn gleefully tells you “It’s more addictive than heroin!”...
...It’s hard to have a favourite among the five Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn but the ones I keep coming back to are the Booker-shortlisted Mother’s Milk, and Bad News, the devastating second in the series...
...Directed by Edward Berger, 2018 Acorn Media Benedict Cumberbatch may have been born to play Patrick Melrose, the witty, damaged, self-hating protagonist of Edward St Aubyn’s masterly series of novels,...
...Lashings of high glamour, of course, but de la Falaise’s family history, filled with gruesome aristocratic horror stories straight out of Edward St Aubyn, is most gripping of all....
...This imaginative range sets him apart from Alan Hollinghurst, Edward St Aubyn and other national peers. He has written 15 novels, not the same novel 15 times....
...Patrick Melrose , the five-part adaptation of Edward St Aubyn’s acclaimed novel sequence, reaches its finale this week with At Last (Sunday, Sky Atlantic, 9pm)....
...Ms Khusyaynova, 44, who is based in St Petersburg, Russia, is being charged with conspiracy to defraud the US. She is not in US custody....
...It isn’t hard to guess what might have drawn Edward St Aubyn to King Lear, Shakespeare’s monumental examination of love, power, insanity and violence....
...As the critic James Wood once observed, St Aubyn “writes very well about bastards”....
...The playing field has been broad: from Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’ Baby: The Diaries last year and Ian McEwan’s Solar in 2010, to Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story in 2011 and Edward St Aubyn...
...Invented by Edward St Aubyn and played by Benedict Cumberbatch, the one let-down of Patrick Melrose is his name, which should be Jonty Soames-Cranleigh or something....
...The much-vaunted television drama Patrick Melrose, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and based on the Edward St Aubyn bio-novels, offered a bacchanal of self-harm on which audiences could gorge....
...The profiles and defining interests of the writers so far matched to assorted plays — Margaret Atwood for The Tempest, Edward St Aubyn for King Lear, Howard Jacobson for The Merchant of Venice — encourage...
...Future instalments will come from Jo Nesbo, Gillian Flynn and Edward St Aubyn. Othello seems a good fit for Chevalier, who often writes about outsiders and discrimination....
...Many writers have made suits their signature, to dashing effect: there’s something deliciously distinguished about the writer, such as Edward St Aubyn and Jonathan Franzen, who wears a suit when there’s...
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