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...Now try this The Booker Prize shortlist has been released! Laura Battle runs through them....
...For Atwood, two starters, a salad of jasmine tea-smoked salmon and another of brown shrimp and green beans; for me, pan-fried hake....
...Booker or not, The Lowland is awash with Lahirical excess. Randy Boyagoda is author of ‘Beggar’s Feast’ (Penguin). It will be published in the UK in 2014...
...Other villas, some of which have become offices for international donors, survive behind walls overhung with climbing roses and jasmine....
...Gone are the “smells of food, dirt, jasmine and imperfectly refined gasoline”, replaced by the odourless certainties of the Holy Myrmidonic Republic....
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