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Diane Banks
- Mar 30
- 2 min
The Hotel by Elizabeth Bowen
First published by Jonathan Cape, 1927; this edition Vintage Classics, 2016 Why? The promise of a tight cast of characters, a glamorous...
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Diane Banks
- Mar 10
- 2 min
The New Political Capitalism: How businesses and societies can thrive in a deeply politicized world by Joe Zammit-Lucia
Bloomsbury Business, 2022 Why? I met Joe Zammit-Lucia at a think tank event a couple of months ago and looked up this book as a...
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Diane Banks
- Jan 21
- 2 min
Traffic: Genius, Rivalry and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to go Viral by Ben Smith
Penguin Press, 2023 Why? Amidst speculation that BuzzFeed will finally collapse in 2024 - following in the footsteps of its fellow...
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Diane Banks
- Jan 16
- 1 min
The Jacaranda Tree by HE Bates
Methuen Publishing, 2006 (first published 1949) Why? I've never read HE Bates, and associating him only with the televised version of The...
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Diane Banks
- Nov 26, 2023
- 2 min
Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries 1918-1938 edited by Simon Heffer
Hutchinson, 2021 Why? Like any afficionado of early twentieth-century British social and political history, I diligently purchased all...
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