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...John Banville is an Irish novelist, the author of the Booker Prize-winner “The Sea”....
...Fans of the Slough House series will be delighted by this tale of a cold war mission in Berlin gone wrong, and the efforts of Griselda and Malcolm, many years later, to uncover the truth....
...Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750 by Noel Malcolm (OUP)This deeply researched account of male-male sexual relations in Europe, the Ottoman Empire and the European...
...In this respect, Hurston can be seen as part of a distinguished pantheon of thinkers, from Booker T Washington to Malcolm X, who argued that black Americans needed to develop confidence in themselves rather...
...“I’m very grateful that the Booker intervened and I was spared,” he says. “I could pay my mortgage off with the Booker gold and be debt free.”...
...As Janet Malcolm notes in Reading Chekhov (2001), “unlike Tolstoy, Chekhov leaves the question of what it all means unanswered....
...Iceland became a public company in 1984 but was acquired by Icelandic investment group Baugur in 2005 after a disastrous merger with wholesaler Booker....
...Best of the rest What I’ve been reading elsewhere “The biographer at work is like the professional burglar,” wrote Janet Malcolm....
...This call has inspired presidents and prime ministers, UN ambassadors and Nasa scientists, Pulitzer and Man Booker prize winners — even executives at Google, Facebook, and the Girl Scouts....
...public with their concerns about the proposed takeover of wholesaler Booker....
...Malcolm Muggeridge, judging the 1971 prize, wrote plaintively to the Sunday Telegraph: “The great bulk of the novels were so full of four-letter words and every variety of sick erotica that I had to withdraw...
...After working as a musician he studied creative writing under Malcolm Bradbury at the University of East Anglia....
...Malcolm Turnbull, Australian prime minister, expressed condolences over the“tragic accident”....
...One year on from the Man Booker-longlisted The Bone Clocks comes another David Mitchell book that inhabits the same soul-stealing, mind-bending world....
...Man on Fire lacks the pace and mystery of Kelman’s Man Booker Prize-shortlisted debut Pigeon English (2011), a book also about an outsider navigating a foreign culture, but it matches it in intensity and...
...(NYT) And the Man Booker Prize goes to . . . Jamaican writer Marlon James for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings....
...When the judges of the 2011 Man Booker Prize declared now infamously, that they were looking for books that were “readable” and which “zip along”, they were met with quality-controlling voices of dissent...
...We meet them as recent graduates of a Massachusetts college as they are trying to establish themselves in New York City: JB, a vivacious but self-involved artist; Malcolm, son of an Upper East Side banker...
...Three years later The Remains of the Day won the Booker Prize and made him famous....
...A haunting novel by the Albanian winner of the inaugural International Man Booker Prize....
...Lodge’s pinnacle of fame probably occurred in the late 1980s with the publication of Nice Work, shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1988....
...Richard Flanagan, the Australian novelist, later used the occasion of his Booker prize win in the UK to attack the Abbott government’s promotion of coal and environmental record....
...“As we got more and more markers in the ground we begin to see visitors coming to look at these markers and to experience these communities,” says the state’s tourism director Malcolm White....
...Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize and the National Book Award....
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