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...This very morning, the next Fay Weldon is probably crafting an advertorial for Louis Vuitton. simon.kuper@ft.com...
...In the 1980s, when I was lent Fay Weldon’s first novel, The Fat Woman’s Joke (1967), my school friend fashioned a jacket for it from brown paper, so shocking did she think the title....
...The late Giles Gordon — Scotland’s top literary agent, whose clients included Fay Weldon, Vikram Seth and Peter Ackroyd — briefly represented him at the end of the 1990s....
...In the 1950s, novelist Fay Weldon regularly visited her mother, who worked as a cook at the Cosmo and “had to get there early to put on the cabbage at eight o’clock in the morning, where it would boil until...
...But I’ve always thought her question to that year’s chair Fay Weldon, “Did you read all of them?”, perfectly sensible. Granted, Scott might wisely have added “to the end”....
...Novelist Fay Weldon, author of, among other titles, The Life and Loves of a She Devil, recalls how her husband Ron objected to the noise of a washing machine, so twice a week she would haul the family laundry...
...Indeed, Fowler’s notes that Fay Weldon wrote in a short story: “It wasn’t that Peter and myself were being singled out.”...
...What, one fancifully wonders, might they have done had they been allowed, say, Fay Weldon’s years (still going strong at 85) or Tom Stoppard’s (ditto, 79)? Age suits Richard Ford, now 73....
...Authors Salman Rushdie and Fay Weldon were copywriters. Advertising “creatives” once shared “a real belief in how to communicate”, Sir John Hegarty told the BBC recently....
...Weldon, always up for laughs....
...‘Habits of the House’ by Fay Weldon is published by Head of Zeus, hardback £16.99, ebook £7.99 This article has been subject to a correction...
...Weldon, who revived the slogan “Go to work on an egg” after spotting it in some 1930s material....
...A tome with an insulting title, such as Fay Weldon’s rather good early novel that I read with brown paper wrappers because it was called The Fat Woman’s Joke?...
...Serena likes Margaret Drabble, AS Byatt and Fay Weldon; Tom likes BS Johnson, JG Ballard and William Gaddis. She likes detail, he likes structure. Sweet Tooth has been written to please both of them....
...When Fay Weldon wrote The Bulgari Connection more than a decade ago, she took some flak for accepting money from the luxury jeweller. She had anticipated the criticism....
...Previous writers-in-residence at the glamorous address have included Michael Morpurgo, Fay Weldon and Kathy Lette....
..., by Fay Weldon, Corvus RRP£16.99, 288 pages Kehua are Maori ghosts, “wandering spirits of the homeless dead”, who steer scattered tribal members towards a common spiritual home....
...Fay Weldon wrote for Upstairs, Downstairs and Harold Pinter had the first pass at Remains of the Day, but when the Merchant-Ivory duo who produced the film rewrote it, he took his name off the credits....
...Along comes Clegg – Fay Weldon...
...Chalcot Crescent By Fay Weldon Corvus £16.99, 278 pages FT Bookshop price: £13.59 In the three-line preface to Fay Weldon’s latest novel – her 29th – the author explains how the story originated....
...Fay Weldon is author of ‘The Stepmother’s Diary’ (Quercus)...
...In The Bulgari Connection in 2001, Fay Weldon became the first known novelist to accept payment to mention a company – the Italian jeweller features more than a dozen times....
...Of course a cohort of writers and film directors, from Fay Weldon and Salman Rushdie to David Puttnam, Alan Parker, Ridley Scott and Tony Kaye, started out in advertising....
...Take the sponsorship of a Fay Weldon novel by Italian jeweller Bulgari. At the time she told the New York Times: “When the approach came through I thought, oh no, dear me, I am a literary author....
...Fay Weldon Zoe Heller’s The Believers is a novel of ideas, concerned with intelligent people emotionally at war with their own principles....
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