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...When the novelist Paul Lynch was getting ready for the Booker Prize awards ceremony at the end of last month, there was one question that preoccupied him....
...But when she asked a secretary at work to type up Leon Uris’s Exodus, the woman betrayed her to the KGB and she lost her job....
...This year’s recently announced Booker longlist elicited widespread praise for its variety and daring, and provides much for the keen audio listener....
...The Trick to Time, by Kit de Waal, Viking, RRP£12.99 A woman reflects on a 1970s love affair in the follow-up to My Name is Leon....
...But special prosecutor Leon Jaworski had concluded that a sitting president could not be indicted....
...Set in early-1980s Birmingham, the novel is told from the perspective of eight-year-old, mixed-race Leon, who takes care of his white baby brother Jake from birth, until Jake is adopted and Leon is tragically...
...The Man Booker International exists in relation to its older sibling the Man Booker, a prize that was for a long time associated with postcolonial subjects, styles and situations....
...Ludovic Hunter-Tilney phones4uarena.co.uk, 0844 847 8000 … Benjamin Booker, September 6, O2 Academy, Birmingham, then touring Fresh from a stint as support act for Jack White in the US, Benjamin Booker...
...Following a short break, Booker T returned to the Hammond to sing Leon Russell’s “A Song for You” – his playing spare, his speaky vocal at its most confessional....
...The favourite for this year’s prize, celebrating its 15th anniversary, was Hilary Mantel, whose historical novel Wolf Hall has already won the Man Booker prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award...
...“With an Xstrata-Anglo American merger looking ever less likely, we believe a Lonmin acquisition looks more [likely],” said Leon Esterhuizen of RBC Capital....
...Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms That Living Things Need to Thrive and Survive By Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman Profile Books, £20 Much has been written about the circadian clock....
...This is How By MJ Hyland Canongate £12.99, 320 pages The Australian author’s novel Carry Me Down was nominated for the Man Booker....
...The Irish novelist and critic, who won the Booker Prize two years ago, has said that he and many others in Ireland have always regarded “the IRA, and indeed Sinn Féin, as neo-fascist”....
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