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...In a memo to staff this week entitled “The Greatest Story Ever Told”, GB News executive Mick Booker compared the channel to a modern day TV Noah’s ark or a biblical David that, to some, was “the saviour...
...Click here for the answers James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”...
...Later, realising we never discussed the Booker, for which she has been nominated three times, I email her: “Prizes, and especially the Booker, generally help bring books to the attention of more readers....
...Suntory’s search for pricier brands comes after global rival Diageo snapped up several super-premium tequila and mezcal brands, including Don Julio, George Clooney-backed Casamigos, Mezcal Unión and the...
...John Banville is an Irish novelist, the author of the Booker Prize-winner “The Sea”....
...In 2019, he stepped in to secure the future of the Booker Prize, sponsoring it for five years through Crankstart, the charitable foundation that he runs alongside his wife Harriet Heyman....
...This month, 17 of the world’s most famous fiction writers, including David Baldacci, Jodi Picoult, John Grisham, Rachel Vail, George RR Martin, Jonathan Franzen and George Saunders, joined a lawsuit filed...
...A new documentary co-directed by the cinema’s former booker Jane Giles and then-teenage habitué Ali Catterall, Scala!!!, celebrates its legacy....
...The title character of which George Bernard Shaw play is a female officer in the Salvation Army? Which of the UK’s four national patron saints was one of Jesus’ 12 apostles?...
...Her new opera, Lincoln in the Bardo, based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by George Saunders, is eagerly awaited....
...Amis’s career might best be understood as a prolonged reply to George Orwell. (“The man can’t write worth a damn,” he said, according to Christopher Hitchens, though his view would mellow.)...
...Lizzie Magie patented her Monopoly precursor, The Landlord’s Game, in 1904, and she hoped to use her game to illustrate the benefits of Henry George’s ideas about taxation....
...The American writer stayed here in 2017, flying over for the Booker Prize ceremony....
...Frédéric Chopin and his lover, the writer George Sand, together with her two children, have arrived in search of respite and inspiration....
...And such is the resonance of these stories today that Maaza Mengiste, the Ethiopian Booker-nominated author, wrote the foreword to the print edition of Jember....
...Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell win historic Booker Geetanjali Shree has been announced as the winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize for her sprawling and multi-faceted novel Tomb of Sand....
...Among them was Democratic senator Cory Booker, who bonded with fellow vegan Holmes over a dinner in which they both shared a packet of almonds....
...“Two years after George Floyd was murdered, there is much more work to be done....
...In Texas, the Republican primary nomination for attorney-general — between Trump-endorsed incumbent Ken Paxton and George P Bush, nephew of former president George W Bush — will also be closely watched....
...Remembering George Floyd Today marks the two-year anniversary of the killing of George Floyd....
...In Ancestry, Simon Mawer, the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of literary thrillers, shows it can be gripping on the page too....
...Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood (Chatto & Windus/Doubleday)Atwood’s new short-story collection — which features George Orwell, an alien and a confused snail — promises to “explore the full warp...
...burst on to the literary scene in 2013 with We Need New Names, whose exploration of the harshness of life in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe and the immigrant experience won its author a place on that year’s Booker...
...And Booker winner George Saunders has over 200 reader responses on Story Club to a recent post where he manages to make the craft of escalating the action in a short story sound absolutely gripping....
...Anna Burns’ astonishing Milkman, which won the 2018 Booker Prize, used the backdrop of 1980s Belfast to tell a story that was both stylistically and morally complex....
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