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...Girl , by Edna O’Brien, Faber, RRP£16.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$26 In a novel the FT’s reviewer described as “impeccably written and indelible”, O’Brien fictionalises the experiences of Nigerian...
...Deborah Findlay is superb as the German painter working in the Black Forest in 1996 when a Welsh ex-soldier (Trystan Gravelle) and his disturbed, autistic son (Orton O’Brien) cross her path....
...One of the best ways to hire diverse staff is through apprenticeships, says Kiri O’Brien, co-founder and director, of Druthers Search, a tech recruitment company....
...“It’s been the straw that broke the camel’s back,” says O’Brien....
...By that stage some of the biggest names in world fiction had already been passed over, with Don DeLillo, Annie Proulx, Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, Edna O’Brien, Dave Eggers, Rose Tremain and Thomas Keneally...
...Claire Messud Author of ‘The Woman Upstairs’ One of the most powerful and resonant books I’ve read this year is Edna O’Brien’s haunting novel The Little Red Chairs (Faber)....
...Afterlife by Sean O’Brien (2009) It is the long hot summer of 1976, and three poets have taken to the Welsh Marches to simmer amid dramas of ambition and resentment....
...Collected Poems , by Sean O’Brien, Picador, RRP£20 From the surety of his first collection The Indoor Park (1983), O’Brien sustains a 30-year career in verse, with a near-icy hand for precise expression...
...UPDATE There are also three knighthoods: Keith HIll (former minister), William O’Brien (former MP) and Ian McCartney (former minister) Here is the formal announcement at 10 Downing Street if you want all...
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...As a result of its heartwarming optimism, O’Brien’s nostalgic homage to the pretty innocence of youth comes dangerously close to resembling a Disney musical at times....
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