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One downside of being a quoted-company director is that your going is publicly announced, just as your coming was.

Jun. 16--GOLDMAN SACHS' presentations department in London is to close, and its work transferred to India. City Spy's man within Goldman says the unit cost of an employee in the department is 25 per hour, but by outsourcing to India, the company reckons to reduce it to 18p. Presumably the saving will be passed on to clients -- or will the bank's annual bonus pool be swelled even further? TO THE FINANCIAL NEWS CITY AWARDS, where Goldman picked up European M&A House of the Decade and Blackstone won Global Private Equity Firm of the Decade. This is the Goldman facing unexpected opposition from Macquarie in its bid for AB Ports, and the Blackstone being forced to pull the float of its nursing homes group Southern Cross?

This book offers readings of five of the most interesting and original voices to have emerged in Britain since the millennium as they tackle the challenges of portraying the new century. Through close readings of the work of Ali Smith, Andrew O'Hagan, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Hall and Jon McGregor, Daniel Lea opens a window onto the formal and thematic concerns that characterise a literary landscape troubled by both familiar and unfamiliar predicaments. These include questions about the meaning of humanness in an age of digital intercourse; about the need for a return to authenticity in the wake of postmodernism; and about the dislocation of self from the other under neoliberal individualism. By relating its readings of these authors to the wider shifts in contemporary literary criticism, this book offers in-depth analysis of important landmarks of recent fiction and an introduction to the challenges of understanding the literature of our time.