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...Plus, Dublin literary historian Christopher Morash (Dublin: A Writer's City) stops by to select the last book he will ever read. Episode link here. We love hearing from you! Write us....
...On a like-for-like basis, UK sales were up 7.7 per cent, Ireland sales were up 6.8 per cent, and Booker (the wholesale part of the business) saw a sales uplift of 5.4 per cent....
...Lilah Raptopoulos We should say here that the Booker Prize is probably the biggest award in the world for English fiction, and that’s a different category than what Fred judged for the international Booker...
...Booker Prize: The winner of the literary award for fiction will be announced at a ceremony in London on Sunday....
...being too expensive, the problem, argues Christophers, is that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable....
...Last year’s guests included Booker-winners Bernardine Evaristo and Shehan Karunatilaka and US novelist Gabrielle Zevin....
...As holidays are for fun, I’ve no doubt that your summer reading list is packed full of detective novels or Booker prize-winners....
...Fed speakers: Governor Christopher Waller appears at an economics conference in Santa Barbara, California....
...Amis was immediately in the spotlight as the son of Kingsley Amis, then one of the most famous novelists in Britain (Kingsley won the Booker Prize in 1986; Martin never did, although his book Time’s Arrow...
...BUY: Tesco (TSCO) Shoppers may be trading down, but that still presents opportunities for the company, writes Christopher Akers....
...(“The man can’t write worth a damn,” he said, according to Christopher Hitchens, though his view would mellow.)...
...APRIL Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World by Brett Christophers (Verso) In this follow-up to Rentier Capitalism, Christophers turns his attention to the new masters of the universe...
...In 2004, the writer Christopher Booker identified “seven basic plots” that recur in all the storytelling cultures of the world. Of these, rags-to-riches was among the most common....
...Baya Simons Eyes That Look At The Sky, in an edition of 100 copies, with a poem written in response to the work by Booker Prize finalist Nadifa Mohamed, and designed by Christopher Simmonds, £175 or £475...
...He hitched himself to a great generation of British writers, including Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens....
...In The Lion House (Bodley Head, March), Christopher de Bellaigue offers a novelistic reconstruction of the rise to power of the Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent....
...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 are, as both Kurt Vonnegut and Christopher Booker have written, very few stories: rags to riches, boy meets girl, unlikely hero slays dragon, and so on....
...Christopher Hayes, a professor of urban history at New Jersey’s Rutgers University, said the upheaval was the worst since the civil rights era....
...His recourse to the grandiose mythic narrative gesture, a tendency that’s marked his work since his breakout second novel Midnight’s Children — winner of the Booker in 1981 and the Booker of Bookers in 2008...
...David Szalay’s most recent book, All That Man Is (2016), won the Gordon Burn Prize and reached the Man Booker shortlist. The reviews, including mine in this paper, were mostly admiring....
...Dr Faraday, cold, shy and neurotic (another repressed Englishman master-crafted by Ireland’s Domhnall Gleeson of Goodbye Christopher Robin ), ministers to the tormented lady of the house (Charlotte Rampling...
...Wylie’s new job Remember Christopher Wylie, the Canadian whistleblower who last year exposed the misuse of data by the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica?...
...In the first five chapters of Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan’s Man Booker-longlisted third novel, she lays down the brutality of life on a plantation around 1829: the vicious fields of Faith see maimings,...
...Some veteran Brexiters such as Christopher Booker, a journalist, and Daniel Hannan, a member of the European Parliament, have championed a Norway or Switzerland-style arrangement as a sensible stepping stone...
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