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...O’Hagan has a tendency to both show and tell....
...As spring swells, so too do publishers’ fiction lists, and among them this year is Andrew O’Hagan’s bravura piece of storytelling, Caledonian Road (Faber & Faber, 22 hrs, 51 mins), read by actor Michael...
...John O’HaganDepartment of EconomicsTrinity College Dublin, Ireland Letter in response to this letter: Cripps’ words on coal and steel pact still ring true / From Denis MacShane, Former Europe Minister...
...Even better when it’s set, by chance, in one’s very own neighbourhood and written by doyen of long-form journalism Andrew O’Hagan....
...String arrangements are by Henri and Sean O’Hagan of Microdisney and The High Llamas. The result is a curious little gem of an album....
...While there, I read a buzzy new novel, Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan. The FT review was a bit negative: I would give it a rave....
...Professor John O’Hagan is a latter-day Sisyphus as he reminds readers that elected governments decide EU policy, not wicked, faceless “Eurocrats” in Brussels (Letters, August 21)....
...John O’HaganDepartment of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland...
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Faith, Hope and Carnage, the series of interviews Seán O’Hagan did with Nick Cave....
...APRIL Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan (Faber)O’Hagan’s take on the era of #MeToo portrays a high-flying art historian whose glittering life comes crashing down, which is played out in front of a bustling...
...martin.sandbu@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Why Europe’s democratic deficit myth lives on in UK/ From John O’Hagan, Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland...
...A two-part adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s novel, it follows a decades-spanning friendship, forged in a dreary Ayrshire adolescence, and intensified in the face of looming mid-life tragedy....
...“You come to understand that this wayward energy you’ve always had, directed in the right way, can actually help people,” he tells O’Hagan....
...Keith’s younger brother, Victor, was also a jockey and their father, Ernie, Lester’s grandfather, rode professionally too....
...john.gapper@ft.com This article has been amended to correct the nationality of Kirill Petrenko Letter in response to this column: Orchestras can learn from the way football is financed / From John O’Hagan...
...Sam Jones, Switzerland and Austria Correspondent Super-prime mover: Britain’s most successful estate agent (Guardian); A Cosmos Indoors, Andrew O’Hagan reviews Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects...
...Kevin Barnett, an employment lawyer at Lester Aldridge, said ministers changed the law in 2018 to allow employers to only notify authorities in the country a vessel is flagged in when they were making redundancies...
...Brendan Hagan, a 61-year-old chef, praised Sinn Féin for “doing good things the last few years — keeping local areas clean, no vandalism . . . They’ll most definitely be first minister,” he said....
...The writer Andrew O’Hagan has described her as “the Jung of set design”; her regular theatre collaborator, director Lyndsey Turner, has it thus: “She designs the ideas, the thought structures, the systems...
...The writer Andrew O’Hagan called The Road “the first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation”, and the ecological activist George Monbiot described the novel as “possibly the most important environmental...
...One of the few exceptions is Billie Eilish’s “Wish You Were Gay”, which is given a kitsch makeover with The High Llamas’ Sean O’Hagan: a rare moment where the merriment takes on a forced quality....
...When the hero of Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan remarks, with hazy romantic fantasy, that apparently there are homes in England where “people read books to their children and baked cakes for them”, you know...
...Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan is published by Faber & Faber at £14.99...
...And O’Hagan clearly intends it to carry some significant historical and political freight....
...The songs (words and music by the cast and composer Felix Hagan) include a Beyoncé-esque assertion of female power in the wartime MI5 secretariat, boisterous strutting from the spymasters, a sea-shanty,...
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