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...Perhaps the most striking premium was achieved by the desk at which Hilary Mantel wrote her Wolf Hall trilogy, which, judging by its catalogue picture, looks like any bog-standard self-assembly number in...
...Thoughts, feedback and The Rest Is History fandom are all welcome, so drop me a line at elaine.moore@ft.com or email us at longstoryshort@ft.com — and have a lovely weekend. ElaineDeputy head of Lex...
...Who wouldn’t want to read a profile of Henry VIII’s best friend by Hilary Mantel?...
...As its steward, she sent circulation numbers up, made the long-form essays by writers such as Hilary Mantel, Anne Enright, Andrew O’Hagan and others the most discussed, often controversial, feature of the...
...His work has a quirky sensibility that recalls Lorrie Moore or George Saunders, an ability to bring the unquestionably weird into the path of daily life without ever seeming forced....
...Dame Hilary gave her grandchildren £20 vouchers towards cutting the national debt in 2009 after watching news stories about the sharp increase in public borrowing....
...Additional reporting by Elaine Moore in London and Duncan Robinson in Brussels...
...She studied drama at Liverpool John Moores University and continued at the Oxford School of Drama....
...Put money now on Julianne Moore for Cannes Best Actress. If you lose, I’ll give you a free prizes tip next year....
...However, Hilary Thomas, a partner in KPMG’s public sector healthcare practice, sees benefits in meeting people from outside the company....
...And Tommy Lee Jones looks to revive the flagging Western genre once more with The Homesman, in which he also stars alongside Hilary Swank....
...Before I can press home the point, he is off again, discussing carbon credits, the American elections, Michael Moore and biofuels (Benn became a vegetarian when Hilary, as a young man, told him how much...
...Hilary Mantel has won the Man Booker prize for fiction for a second time, for her novel Bring Up the Bodies, the middle book of a projected trilogy about Thomas Cromwell and the Tudor court....
...Will Self and Hilary Mantel are the favourites to win the 2012 Man Booker prize for fiction next month, though half the titles in the six-strong shortlist are from independent publishers, and two are by...
...Michael Wilson and his half-sister Barbara Broccoli, Hilary and Steven Saltzman all appear, talking about their respective fathers....
...Association Kenneth Caley , chief crown prosecutor, Eastern Region, Crown Prosecution Service Alexander Charles Lord Carlile Of Berriew, QC, for services to national security Helena Bonham Carter, actor Hilary...
...Indebted to MR James, but Moore’s account is entirely fresh and modern....
...Moore’s book fits the genre but rises above it thanks to the wit of his writing as he takes us on a tour of post-industrial decay and cheap motels....
...To raise funding, Thompson sold a Henry Moore his father had given him for £230,000 – which endowed NLS....
...The favourite for this year’s prize, celebrating its 15th anniversary, was Hilary Mantel, whose historical novel Wolf Hall has already won the Man Booker prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award...
...Hilary Moore, a senior trainer at Canning, notes that Germans in particular don’t understand that when Britons say, “Well, it wasn’t fantastic,” they might in fact mean, “It was dreadful.”...
...Last year’s Man Booker prize winner Hilary Mantel is among the front-runners in the longlist for this year’s Orange prize for fiction, which was announced on Wednesday....
...Two first-time novelists will battle it out with Hilary Mantel, the winner of last year’s Man Booker prize, for this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction....
...Dame Hilary Blume, director of the Charities Advisory Trust which disburses donations to charities, said that although the idea had raised eyebrows, money was already arriving....
...Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker (for Wolf Hall). Elizabeth Strout won the Pulitzer (for her short story collection Olive Kitteridge). Marie NDiaye won the Goncourt (for Trois femmes puissantes)....
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