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...There are 36 contributors in total, including John Grisham, Celeste Ng and Emma Donoghue, and the collection is edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston....
...I think she’d be thrilled about the books and plays and films — and she’d be amazed that I had children....
...A character wryly comments: “So many did claim they’d been in the Resistance, afterward, didn’t they? Lined up for praise and thanks, medals, even money from de Gaulle’s new government....
...I’d also recommend The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape, £7.35) which is more historical....
...At that opening, Marty Walsh, mayor of Boston, asked Ryan if he ever thought he’d make it to the States. Ryan replied: “Mayor, I didn’t think we’d get to Cork.”...
...He could have quite happily not done anything and he'd still be governance chair....
...The cast is well rehearsed and assured, the ensemble (modern instruments plus viola d’amore) plays with commitment and precision, and conductor Jack Symonds holds it all together convincingly....
...Mr Rami says: “We’d like to see the sector growing considerably. We think there’s quite a lot of scope.”...
...“Commercials helped me into a genuine creative life, much more than if I’d stayed in the uncompromising zone of my bedsit.”...
...I wandered along an empty dirt road which wound around Lough Loral to the ruins of a wooden ship and the home of Mary O’Donoghue....
...Just as carefully constructed is Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, based on the novel by Emma Donoghue....
...“They’ve only been live since March and we’re thrilled with how it’s going,” says Marie Donoghue, executive vice-president of global strategy and original content....
...“If it had ended up just me and painting, I think I’d be dead by now.”...
...But this is not, in essence, surreal: it draws on ideas in William Blake, Palmer and even D.H. Lawrence, and amounts to a neo-romantic crossover of the spirit between wild nature and humanity....
...“At least they’d found each other. You’d got to have a partner or you wouldn’t make it, that’s what the old-timers said.”...
...Sir, With reference to the letter by John O’Donoghue on July 28 regarding “virgin births”, I’d like to point out that the Indian epic, the Mahabharata, records virgin births as well....
...I’d go on the dole and reduce my spending to amost nothing. It’s painful to consider anything but writing. Emma Donoghue’s novel ‘Room’ is published by Picador...
...VM Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador) “A work that is deeply unsettling on every level....
...They’ll say: ‘I’d rather do something that is less fraught with peaks and troughs,’” says Michael Rendell, head of human resources consulting for PwC....
...In March the group lost Paul D’Alton, its chief financial officer, when he resigned after less than a year into the job....
...The company has so far failed to find a replacement for Paul D’Alton, who quit as finance director in March. In mid afternoon trading, shares were valued at just over 5 euro cents a share....
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