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...This year’s Booker Prize ceremony was the first held fully in person since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic....
...As holidays are for fun, I’ve no doubt that your summer reading list is packed full of detective novels or Booker prize-winners....
...This is a world in which doubts are viewed not as a necessary adjunct of faith but as “the foul whisperings of demons”....
...While Kingsolver’s moralising instincts are clear from the off, Demon Copperhead is nonetheless a vivid — and entertaining — portrait of modern America....
...The afterlife is a nightmarish world of ghouls and demons but so is Down There, the country he left behind, beset by corrupt leaders, death squads, suicide bombers and greedy arms dealers....
...Indeed, some of her most chilling passages come from the recognition of everyday horrors, such as apathy in the face of misery, with nary a demon or vampire in sight....
...The novel’s complexity and ambition was rewarded with a place on last year’s Booker shortlist, but it also proved a huge hit with readers....
...Can marriage to Yasmin help Joe with his demons? Can Yasmin’s mother’s blossoming friendship with Harriet, and a crash course in feminism, rescue her?...
...CS Lewis describes something similar in The Screwtape Letters: the demons feed on human suffering and despair, and their own brotherly love is expressed as a desire to eat their younger brethren....
...Jarvis Cocker sticks very much to the analogue world in Good Pop, Bad Pop (Jonathan Cape, May), in which the Pulp front man rummages around his attic to produce a memoir of a life in music....
...I held out hope that the piece I was co-staging there, called Our lives, an infinite improvisation, which was to feature the dancing and choreography of Charlotte Jarvis along with my poetry, would somehow...
...“Most of my time was spent waiting: waiting to grow up, waiting for childhood’s demons to die, waiting for my life to start.” Jay, imperious, in charge, jolts Kairo out of his passivity....
...“It is much easier to present them as demons in the current political bestiary.”...
...Tracker tells the story of Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the first in the Booker-winning author’s projected Dark Star trilogy, to his inquisitor....
...In The Long Take, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Scottish poet Robin Robertson dispatches his Everyman, an ordinary Canadian soldier, shell- shocked and sorrowing, off on another Homeric voyage....
...Outrunning the Demons by Phil Hewitt (Bloomsbury, January) explores the power of running to help people overcome traumas and addictions....
...Activists have begun building stakes in shopping-centre owner Hammerson and food wholesaler Booker....
...That he is heading off for a long weekend in Amsterdam with his wife Stella — serious, sincere, religious and battling many demons — might suggest that Gerry should try that bit harder....
...It really is a place where all your demons come out to play.”...
...“Shaun Tan is a visionary and a magician,” says Neel Mukherjee, author of the Man Booker-shortlisted novel The Lives of Others (2014)....
...Parks has already published 15 works of fiction, including one that was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize....
...They never give me the Booker prize anyway.”...
...The hero will confront his inner demons along the way and be forced to make an impossible choice. All this should unfold in vivid scene-setting that takes the reader into a new and unknown world....
...Good Italy, Bad Italy: Why Italy Must Conquer its Demons to Face the Future, by Bill Emmott, Yale University Press, RRP£18.99 A former editor of The Economist offers an examination of both the weaknesses...
...So it is intriguing that he lives within the grounds of the seminary where he trained, though he insists that the place holds no demons for him....
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