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...Which city was the birthplace of Peter O’Toole, Marco Pierre White and Alan Bennett? Which company operates the National Lottery?...
...Working with Fitzcarraldo Editions they recorded Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond and Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead....
...I believe that things fizzled because the members are too far apart on some of these issues,” said Bennett....
...And Beautiful World’s absence from this year’s Booker longlist (Normal People was longlisted in 2018) is conspicuous....
...Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart, Picador, RRP£14.99, 448 pages Stuart has said that his debut novel — winner of this year’s Booker Prize — was inspired by his own childhood in 1980s Glasgow, and the difficult...
...“There is a continuing huge gap between where the activists and political insiders are focused, and where the voters are,” said Matt Bennett, co-founder of the Democratic think-tank Third Way who worked...
...The five Democratic senators running for president — Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Michael Bennett of Colorado —...
...A graduate of Stanford and Yale Law School, Mr Booker is known in the Senate as a gifted orator....
...On Wednesday, Senators Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand said for the first time that they agreed....
...Cory Booker, senator from New Jersey Long touted as a rising star of the Democratic party, Mr Booker first entered the Senate in 2013 following two terms as mayor of Newark, New Jersey....
...It’s as if Alan Bennett were to write an episode of The Archers....
...Democratic senators, including Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, also took part in the demonstrations. “When we elect a possible president, we too often go home,” Ms Steinem told the crowd to cheers....
...“Anyone blaming Comey is kidding themselves,” said Matt Bennett, co-founder of the Democratic think-tank Third Way. “It wasn’t Comey....
...Much of literary London has passed through its doors, many of them today: playwright Alan Bennett visited this morning, Booker Prize-winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst is here tonight....
...A darkly comic novel that was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize....
...Both Wells and Shaw wrote regularly for the paper on politics and then later, in the early 1920s, after the NS broke free from the Webbs’ influence, the novelist Arnold Bennett became chairman and one of...
...Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize and the National Book Award....
...The young stars of Beyond the Fringe (Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett) had stormed both the West End and Broadway and created an appetite for undergraduate humour with a political...
...In a reprise of Alan Bennett’s The History Boys , the most pertinent exchanges are to do with the past and how to assess it....
...Over a set-up that could easily have developed into a suburban British version of The Deer Hunter, floats a comic sensibility closer to Alan Bennett or Tom Sharpe....
...Among others one could cite John Lanchester, Andrew O’Hagan, Jenny Diski, Hilary Mantel (this year’s Man-Booker winner), and Blake Morrison....
...and later, as an adult, detail his difficult relationship with WH Auden, also dramatised in Alan Bennett’s new play The Habit of Art?...
...has hosted such luminaries as Ian McEwan, Will Self and Helena Kennedy; this year’s attractions include Alan Bennett and Booker Prize-winner Graham Swift. www.ayewrite.com OxfordOxford Literary FestivalMarch...
...Alan Bennett 29. Vikram Seth hasn’t won the Booker. Aravind Adiga won this year’s Man Booker prize with White Tiger 30. Odetta; Miriam Makeba 31. The war in Georgia 32....
...Osborne hated his mother, cut off his teenage daughter and openly rejoiced when his fourth wife, Jill Bennett, killed herself....
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