Hints and tips:
...Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor’s novel that was announced this week as being longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize, opens with the discovery of a dead body....
...Tracker tells the story of Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the first in the Booker-winning author’s projected Dark Star trilogy, to his inquisitor....
...More importantly for Boyd, you feel, was David Szalay’s luminous All That Man Is (2016), which did enough over the course of its nine interlinked stories to persuade the judges of last year’s Man Booker...
...If there is a misgiving about the great American, it is that, for all his interest in terror and dread science, aired again in Zero K last year, he is too damn funny....
...Zero K, by Don DeLillo, Picador, RRP16.99/Scribner, RRP$27 At 80, the American master surprises yet again with a dystopian take on our desire to preserve life beyond its sell-by date....
...His latest film is Mrs K....
...Hot Milk, by Deborah Levy, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99 A new novel by the author of the Man Booker-shortlisted Swimming Home....
...When we encounter androids in the work of novelists such as Philip K Dick or Isaac Asimov, they are often tragic figures who demand an extension of sympathy: above all else they long to be human, which they...
...He says his first career, as a translator from Japanese into Russian, was partly inspired by reading different versions of Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat....
...A haunting novel by the Albanian winner of the inaugural International Man Booker Prize....
...Eleanor Catton’s Man Booker Prize-longlisted second novel, The Luminaries, involves the interlocking stories of a Jewish newspaper editor, an Irish Free Methodist chaplain, a dapper Norwegian merchant, a...
...Above is a video by the FT’s Chris Booker this morning about the candidacies of Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer for New York City mayor and comptroller, respectively....
...A colleague recalls how Coetzee would not take calls from the Booker prize committee because he was invigilating undergraduate exams: a measure of his professionalism....
...Taylor, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh … were kind of heroes to Christopher Booker and Paul Foot and myself. We wanted to read all their books and know all about them....
...Winner of the 2009 Man Booker prize Stephenie Meyer Bestselling author of the Twilight vampire romance series Gail Rebuck Chairman and chief executive of the Random House Group J. K....
...Rebney is shown constantly fluffing his lines (which he wrote), and becoming increasingly enraged, screaming “f**k” and “shit” monotonously....
...There’s even a local celebrity, Frank K. Nebraska, he of the foul-mouthed Dictaphone rant: “KIZZY! WET WIPES!!! NOW!!!” Barker’s control of tone is superb....
...K. Rowling, Canongate’s approach may offer a glimpse of the future of book publishing....
...He didn’t turn up to collect his award, any more than when he won his first, in 1983, for The Life of Michael K....
...The writer’s novel, ‘The White Tiger’, won last year’s Man Booker Prize. His new book, ‘Between the Assassinations’, is published by Atlantic Books in July...
...for My Revolutions; Nicholas Shakespeare for Secrets of the Sea; and Indra Sinha for Animal’s People, which was also shortlisted for last year’s Man Booker Prize....
...The Mid Day newspaper alleged Y.K....
...The show’s booker was polite and somehow tolerated the fact that it took me three days to call back, given that I was unsure whether I wanted to do it....
...Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K) - and how Rushdie got in touch, months later, to apologise....
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