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Publishing

Booker revisited Paul Johnson T here is an air of desperation about the attempts of the literary establishment to turn the Booker prize into a major event, as though sheer......

In The City

The Bank Tony Rudd That agreeable pastime of guessing who 1 might be the next Governor of the Bank of England, has broken out once more. Fuelled presumably by the notion that......