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...His Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv, longlisted for the International Booker Prize in Reuben Woolley’s new translation, first appeared in Ukraine (in Russian) in 2012....
...England midfielder Fran Kirby joined captain Leah Williamson on the growing injury list for the Lionesses ahead of the World Cup in July....
...Argentina’s World Cup winning captain Lionel Messi looks set to be the first to quit the Qatar-owned team....
...Artt’s fanaticism drives the novel like Captain Ahab’s in Moby-Dick....
...The Booker Prize has had a reasonable reputation for diversity over the years, with a fair roster of past BAME winners and shortlistees....
...Megan Rapinoe, captain of the US team that won the women’s football world cup, used her platform to call for equal pay....
...The captain allows them to drop two lines for just long enough to land two cod before he heads back, engine screaming, pursued by the storm....
...“She’s holding the Washington Post”, my friend Carol Booker told me....
...‘Really beautiful country,’ Captain Cook reckoned. ‘That’s why I’m cleaning up people, take it away.’ ”)....
...A follow-up, the Man Booker-longlisted The Teleportation Accident, again knowingly combined history (1930s Berlin and Los Angeles) with a staggeringly complex plot....
...Marvel, the comics company turned Disney-backed entertainment powerhouse, has made more than $13bn in the past decade with movies starring superheroes such as Captain America, The Avengers and the Guardians...
...Even Melville’s Captain Ahab is just an ageing whaler with a peg leg. As an aesthetic convention, this ban on superstar protagonists in fiction makes sense....
...Before returning home, the team’s captain and vice-captain, Dave Gallaher and Billy Stead, dictated at extraordinary speed a 300-page book on the game, The Complete Rugby Footballer on the New Zealand System...
...A haunting novel by the Albanian winner of the inaugural International Man Booker Prize....
...Captain Mee plays the role of a marginally more sympathetic Brit. Kesri Singh sweats blood as a case-study in subaltern reactions to British rule....
...Here Captain Benny Griessel investigates the murder of a man behind an internet service that supplies unfaithful partners with plausible cover stories — but, like his clients, was he all he appeared to be...
...The story centres on the character of Luke Campbell, a 29-year-old Scottish captain in the 1st Royal Western Fusiliers....
...But Keane’s eminent co-writer, Booker Prize-winning Irish author Roddy Doyle, does a brilliant job....
...It was similar with The Remains of the Day, the butler’s reverie that won Ishiguro the Man Booker Prize in 1989: “I’d made a reputation as a kind of Japanese writer, a kind of foreign correspondent based...
...The 13-Storey Treehouse, by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, Macmillan, RRP£5.99 Looking for the next Wimpy Kid, Captain Underpants or Tom Gates? Look no further....
...Author of eight works of fiction, his first novel, Reef, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994. Gunesekera is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature....
...And yet, thanks to Captain Marryat, his English is already “excellent”, as are his algebra and physics....
...Eleanor Catton’s Man Booker Prize-longlisted second novel, The Luminaries, involves the interlocking stories of a Jewish newspaper editor, an Irish Free Methodist chaplain, a dapper Norwegian merchant, a...
...In Bring Up the Bodies , which scooped last year’s Man Booker and other prizes, Mantel develops these strong characters....
...Meek’s dark story, set during the turmoil of post-revolution Siberia and featuring cannibalism and castration, garnered a clutch of literary prizes and a place on the Man Booker prize long list....
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