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...Lisa O....
...None of the five of us — my fellow judges were David Baddiel, Russell Celyn Jones and Salley Vickers, admirably chaired by the late Professor Lisa Jardine — had ever heard of Martel....
...In 2002, the year the Man Group took over the sponsorship of the Booker, the jury’s chair Lisa Jardine said opening the prize to Americans would make it “blandly generic”....
...Balfour Beatty, the UK construction group, runs a “returners” programme for professionals who have taken two or more years off....
...If you haven’t already read Paul Beatty’s The Sellout (Oneworld/FSG), your life is the more meagre for the omission....
...Danny Leigh Fiction The Sellout, by Paul Beatty, Oneworld, RRP£12.99/Picador, RRP$16 Beatty won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for this dazzling contemporary satire about an African-American...
...“Warren Beatty,” he said. “And not for the obvious reasons.” The exchange stuck in my head because of what it says about Mailer’s humour and a novelist’s task overall....
...(Reuters) Balfour Beatty job cuts: Balfour Beatty, the UK’s biggest construction company, has warned 12,000 staff in the UK they could lose their jobs as a result of the downturn in the building industry...
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