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...Yann Martel’s Life of Pi also scopes a fantastical landscape and throws a huge Bengal tiger into the mix for good measure....
...not a huge fan of shopping but I like this street because you won’t find large brands such as H&M....
...“I’m going to have to take decisions, some about economic recovery and others that are more difficult,” Macron said in Martel, a small town in south-west France, on Thursday....
...Like those signing up to I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here!, they are having a late sip of fame....
...Canada’s Bombardier has named Eric Martel as its new chief executive, replacing Alain Bellemare, effective next month. Martel is the former head of Hydro-Québec....
...So I’m just hoping it continues. It’s so long overdue.”...
...It took Yann Martel considerably longer to write it. Think of it as a grace note: “Dear Mr Martel, My daughter and I just finished reading Life of Pi together....
...I’m lucky enough to have judged the prize twice, and at two important inflection points in its history....
...Nobody wakes up and says, ‘Yeah, I’m going to open an account this morning’. So it is about pushing the right offer to the right customers....
...But for a brief interlude, life here must have been golden for M. and Mme Cavrois and their seven children....
...More interestingly, far from being ethnically Russian, Khazars fought the Rus’ (Russians) and until 968, successfully halted Russian southward advances, as detailed in Douglas M Dunlop’s book The History...
...I was a judge for the first time and Yann Martel won with Life of Pi. It is thrilling to be with her as she sees what’s in the Jacob Bronowski Archive for the first time....
...“I don’t look at myself and go, ‘Oh I’m a female songwriter,’” she says. “I’m just a songwriter. Today there are just as many male pop singers and boy bands as females, it’s very even to me.”...
...Then chapter 205 consists, in its entirety, of the declaration: “I think I’m beginning to understand. What I’m writing is an infranovel.”...
...“As Cavendish also appears in the new novel I'm working on,” says Mitchell, “I'm going to weave his film ending into the character's personal history and make it ‘canonical’....
...Yann Martel’s Life of Pi (which won the Man Booker prize in 2001) has been Canongate’s best-seller by volume – more than 2m copies....
...Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. I usually have three books on the go at the same time. Is it healthy to compete with your wife? What a cruel question. I don’t think I am. She’s set a hot pace....
...Pi in Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. I was once a little boy before I had to become a grown-up woman. Who are your literary influences?...
...Which means, I’m afraid, that it’s time for you to camp and bear it. bookdoctor@ft.com...
...Yann Martel, 44, shot to fame with his 2002 Booker prize-winning novel Life of Pi. A Canadian citizen, Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain....
...“I’m very much in favour of widening the readership of classic titles in every possible way....
...I’m a short-story writer who writes the occasional novel.” A characteristic understatement: he has written more than 20 novels, several of them very highly acclaimed....
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