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...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...
...Douglas Flint will succeed Gerry Grimstone as chairman of Standard Life Aberdeen, the $735bn Edinburgh investment manager....
...Philip Larkin and John Updike became the unofficial laureates of England and America while still in their thirties....
...UK & Ireland Dr Simon Kerry Chief Executive, Karus Therapeutics Sandra Currie Chief Executive, Kidney Research UK Dr Paul Colbon Chief Operating Officer and Director, Liverpool ChiroChem Dr Ken Larkin...
...Douglas Carswell is another defector who is better understood as a Whig than a plain rightwinger....
...In a literary career spanning three decades, his output has included biographies of Philip Larkin and John Keats, poems in praise of the Queen Mother and Prince Charles, as well as novels and critical works...
...But it also achieves something of the effect of the ending of Larkin’s poem “High Windows”, only in reverse: “Beyond it the blue air, that shows/Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.”...
...The east coast port has been home to poets from Andrew Marvell to Philip Larkin, Douglas Dunn and Andrew Motion. It makes a change from the endless surveys that place Hull at the bottom....
...He was at Hull when Philip Larkin was university librarian. “He was a presence, a forbidding presence,” says Paulin....
...CATCHING LIFE BY THE THROAT: How to Read Poetry and Why by Josephine Hart Time Warner ₤15.99 For all ages, this compilation features eight of the best-known modern poets, including Auden, Larkin and Emily...
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