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...Sissay has invited Jacqueline Wilson to do an online talk — the children’s author whose most famous creation, Tracy Beaker, grows up in care, while The Dumping Ground, now in its ninth series, recounts the...
...This year’s judges included Scottish crime writer Val McDermid, artist and graphic novelist Leanne Shapton, feminist writer Jacqueline Rose and cultural critic Leo Robson....
...South Korean author Han Kang and British translator Deborah Smith shared the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian , the first of Han’s books to be published in English....
...Other signatories include Dinesh Dhamija of E-Bookers, William Shu of Deliveroo, Simon Woodroffe of Yo Sushi and Peter Williams of clothing brand Jack Wills....
...Four Children and It , by Jacqueline Wilson, Puffin, RRP£12.99 Both tribute and sequel to E Nesbit’s 1902 classic Five Children And It, revisiting that novel’s wish-granting sand-fairy in the present day...
...Among others one could cite John Lanchester, Andrew O’Hagan, Jenny Diski, Hilary Mantel (this year’s Man-Booker winner), and Blake Morrison....
...Large colour plates of unrivalled quality, scores of photographs and illuminating text record his great oriental decorative period, and the ascent of his last muse, Jacqueline Roque....
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