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...Heaping it on | Robert Halfon’s shock decision to quit as minister for skills in the education department came within hours of the resignation of armed forces minister James Heappey yesterday....
...Now try this My deepest thanks to all of the readers who urged me to press on with Mick Herron’s other novels....
...You will, it follows, be entertained and informed by Jesse Armstong, Rachel Reeves, Michael Gove, Peter Frankopan, Julian Barnes, Mick Herron, Leila Slimani, Greg James and, as is traditional, many more....
...My one unmissable highlight: I’m very keen to see Mick Herron, the brilliant comic spy novelist, whose work mixes humour, political satire and the best spy writing....
...It is, at least in part, the James Bond effect....
...Books mentioned: –Audiobooks: Bad Actors by Mick Herron and Ulysses by James Joyce –Novels that span centuries: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara and Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel –Beach read...
...Though neither a James Bond-style action hero, nor a cerebral George Smiley type, Lamb — like many of the Slow Horses — is decent, courageous and intensely loyal....
...fear trouble will break out at unionists’ traditional July marches and bonfire celebrations commemorating the victory of the Protestant British King William of Orange over the deposed Catholic monarch James...
...And as you heard, one of them is the audiobook of Ulysses by James Joyce. Notoriously, that is one of the harder books to decipher in the English language....
...Robert Shrimsley FT UK editor-at-large For fiction and underworld escapism, James Ellroy’s Underworld USA trilogy, especially the first novel, American Tabloid....
...Following the decision on Thursday, Stephen Herron, the director of public prosecutions for Northern Ireland, said he recognised the deep disappointment felt by many of the victims’ families....
...After overhearing an MR James story, whose title I still cannot bring myself to type, sleepovers became a challenge: actually, Lisa, it’s not a duvet but a rotting bandaged succubus and when you go downstairs...
...This Is What Happened , by Mick Herron, John Murray, RRP£12.99/Soho Crime, RRP$25.99 There is, quite simply, no current thriller writer who enjoys better word-of-mouth than Mick Herron, whose sardonic series...
...Science fiction by James Lovegrove Sea of Rust, by C Robert Cargill, Gollancz, RRP£14.99 After the machines rise up and humankind is exterminated, the world remains as corrupt as it ever was....
...Priorities for 2018 Pay Succession planning Diversity Abigail Herron Aviva Investors Abigail Herron is a busy woman....
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