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...The pair found themselves less swinging than sinking — in a Notting Hill basement living in Patrick Hamilton-style penury....
...In the years before, Mashama was working at the New York restaurant Prune, led by chef Gabrielle Hamilton. And Hamilton thought she was ready for more. So she put Mashama in touch with Johno....
...Through Hamilton, she met Morisano. Morisano and Bailey each had something the other wanted....
...When eating these calçots, you slip off the charred outer layer “like pulling off an evening glove”, as restaurateur Gabrielle Hamilton memorably observed, and dip each one in the romesco sauce....
...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...
...Susie Boyt, novelist and FT contributor Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99/Grove Press, RRP$27) is a Booker-winning novel of deep pleasures....
...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)....
...The Little Red Chairs, by Edna O’Brien, Faber, RRP£18.99 Inspired by Radovan Karadzic’s disguise while on the run, The Little Red Chairs starts with the arrival of a bearded stranger, “Dr Vladimir Dragan...
...Toby’s Room , by Pat Barker, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99 Barker, who made the first world war her domain with the Regeneration trilogy, returns to it here....
...Saints and Sinners , by Edna O’Brien, Faber, RRP£7.99 It’s been more than 50 years since O’Brien published her debut novel, The Country Girls....
...There But For The, by Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16, 384 pages A dinner party guest locks himself in the host’s spare room and refuses to leave....
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