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...Dialogue is minimal, but Aurore Déon’s elephant narrator heaves us through dense thickets of exposition....
...These new Irish brands are following in the footsteps of the likes of Magee 1866, a fifth-generation family tweed-maker based in Donegal (Sarah Jessica Parker, who has a home in the county, is a fan), and...
...Tamlin Magee is a writer based in the UK Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Even though it contains the slightest hint of a threat — if we don’t get justice, you don’t get peace — who could object, really? Justice and peace are good things....
...October 20 John Gapper is an FT columnist Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter Letter in response to this article: My revelatory moment on the café terrace / From Lucy Magee...
...Next on my reading list is Close to Home by Belfast writer Michael Magee, whom I met recently in the gloriously sumptuous surroundings of the Provost’s House at Trinity College Dublin, where he was the recipient...
.../ From Sean Magee, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK...
...Sean Magee Willesley, Gloucestershire, UK Letter in response to this letter: Stories of heroic knights are part of Putin rhetoric / From Niccolo Caldararo, PhD, Department of Anthropology, San Francisco...
...It’s fascinating to compare it with Michael Magee’s Close to Home (Hamish Hamilton £14.99), set in Belfast a generation later....
...I hope Lindsey Davis doesn’t object to being called a veteran writer of historical crime fiction....
...Sean Magee (“You don’t see Berlin trying to reclaim Kaliningrad”, Letters June 24) notes the history of Kaliningrad (known as Twangste — perhaps Lithuanian, meaning “pond with dam,” before 1255 CE) and the...
...But James doesn’t want to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather: “I won’t do it. I won’t be that fisherman. That tradition. That drowning tradition.”...
...With Audrey Magee’s The Colony on the Booker longlist, 2022 is turning out to be a fine year for fiction set on isolated Irish isles....
...Audrey Magee’s The Colony (Faber, 8 hr 28 min) presents any narrator with a formidable challenge; the terse dialogue and staccato interior monologue of the text is frequently mirrored in the book’s print...
...Letter in response to this article: You don’t see Berlin trying to reclaim Kaliningrad / From Sean Magee, Willesley, Gloucestershire, UK...
...“I don’t think he has a clue what’s happening in the small towns,” she added....
...I haven’t read anything else that gives a better picture of the shape of a life....
...“I think we’re now on the upward curve,” says Shane Magee, chairman of Chrystals estate agents....
...So she didn’t let me come back.” The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority says it is “concerned” about such stories....
...“I don’t know, I don’t think the chief whip knows and I don’t think she knows,” said one minister....
...Naturally, she doesn’t want her daughters to be teased or bullied, but knows that it’s part of growing up, and may happen....
...Deon Stander, vice-president of Avery Dennison, agrees. “Connectivity got lost over the years....
...“I don’t think the big guys have screwed with the taste,” he says. “Actually, they’re trying pretty hard....
...Don’t let them undermine our United Kingdom.”...
...“We don’t know why. We just find repeating patterns in the price cycles.”...
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