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Weekend Agenda 4/5 June
June 04, 2011 — Global Writer: Monocle staff
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection, including exhibitions to lose your Saturday in, a photography festival on the Channel Islands, and an impressive new short storyteller with ten tales on the subject of smoking. In its second year, the Guernsey Photography Festival expects to attract around 20,000 visitors to the tiny Channel Island over [...]
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Last week was a good one for British retail, the global publishing business and lovers of ink on paper. In a surprise move, a Russian billionaire pounced on the opportunity to snatch up the UK's last big bookstore business and in the process installed one of the country's (industry's) most respected booksellers to run it. At a time when most large-scale book retailers seem confused about what business they're in, the move by Alexander Mamut to assign James Daunt to the task of turning around Waterstone's seemed wonderfully grounded in good old common sense.
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