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...Raban wrote three novels — the most notable of which is perhaps Waxwings (2003), longlisted for the Booker Prize and set in Seattle during the 1990s dot-com boom....
...This year’s International Booker shortlist includes work by a couple of published poets, a film director and a former security guard....
...Our first daily task is “Morning Pages”, a 20-minute exercise adapted from Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way, designed to limber up, relax the writing muscle and overcome literary self-consciousness....
...Real estate agents could now go the way of travel agents, she predicted: the few flight bookers who remain now largely specialise in co-ordinating the most complex trips....
...Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) The winner of this year’s International Booker Prize — the first Bulgarian novel to bag the award — is a warning about...
...From June 14; further information and tickets here Performance ‘Julia’, Southbank Theatre A theatrical portrait of Julia Gillard, the Welsh-born Labor politician who became Australia’s first female prime...
...The next year, Julia Neuberger, one of the judges, had a meltdown when James Kelman won with How Late It Was, How Late and exploded at the prize administrator, Martyn Goff....
...It later became a film starring Julia Roberts as Gilbert, opposite Javier Bardem, playing the man who became her second husband....
...UK, winner of the International Booker Prize announced in London....
...At Night All Blood Is Blackby David Diop, translated by Anna Moschovakis, Pushkin Press £14.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux $25 The recently announced winner of this year’s International Man Booker Prize tells...
...Julia Hobsbawm’s The Nowhere Office (Hachette, February) makes the case for embracing the opportunities this brings....
...After an initial burst of momentum, concludes Julia Craven, she failed to convince voters of who she was or which particular problem facing Americans she cared about most....
...Julia Phillips, a corporate events organiser, has noticed a change in clients’ requests for their pre-dinner activities: alcohol-free drinks....
...Miles Cresswell-Turner, chief executive of branch-based lender Everyday Loans, along with his wife and two daughters purchased an aggregate £150,000-worth of shares, while non-executive director Niall Booker...
...But Booker Prize-winner John Banville? It seems both have since disowned the series. ★★★☆☆...
...(“Julia obtained a 2.1 honours degree in Biology at Southampton . . . Stephen obtained three A’s in his A levels”.)...
...Her 2011 Man Booker-shortlisted novel Jamrach’s Menagerie took as its source material the infamous wreck of the whaling ship Essex in 1820, a tragedy that partly inspired Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick....
...Fully Connected: Surviving and Thinking in an Age of Overload, by Julia Hobsbawm, Bloomsbury, RRP£20 The founder of networking business Editorial Intelligence on how to promote “social health” in the modern...
...Her new novel Orphans of the Carnival tells the true story of Victorian carnival performer Julia Pastrana, whose face and body were ape-like and covered in hair. Birch lives in Lancaster....
...A haunting novel by the Albanian winner of the inaugural International Man Booker Prize....
...A darkly comic novel that was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize....
...While Booker’s shares have fallen recently, growth is expected to come from the ongoing conversion of Makro stores and increasing internet sales....
...coloured by his experiences as an American air force pilot flying missions in the Pacific and during the Korean war; then there is the erotic-operatic A Sport and a Pastime (1967), half Henry Miller, half Julia...
...The novel was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize as well as shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and has now been translated into more than 29 languages....
...PICTURE BOOKS Superworm by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, Scholastic, RRP£10.99 The Gruffalo duo offer their unique take on the superhero....
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