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...In a memo to staff this week entitled “The Greatest Story Ever Told”, GB News executive Mick Booker compared the channel to a modern day TV Noah’s ark or a biblical David that, to some, was “the saviour...
...Despite her acclaimed work as an essayist and a translator, the Man Booker International Prize-winning American writer Lydia Davis remains best known for her prolific and highly idiosyncratic stories....
...A new documentary co-directed by the cinema’s former booker Jane Giles and then-teenage habitué Ali Catterall, Scala!!!, celebrates its legacy....
...Real estate agents could now go the way of travel agents, she predicted: the few flight bookers who remain now largely specialise in co-ordinating the most complex trips....
...In reality, having tête-à-têtes with literary giants and casually landing plum jobs (Motion was an editor at Chatto & Windus where he worked with Booker Prize winners) was probably more complicated than...
...Last year’s guests included Booker-winners Bernardine Evaristo and Shehan Karunatilaka and US novelist Gabrielle Zevin....
...Like her kindred spirits Alice Munro and Mary Gaitskill, she writes long stories of such style and depth of feeling that they can each feel like the compressed achievement of a novel....
...“By going to the border and touring it himself it challenges Republicans to fix immigration together,” said Mary Anne Marsh, a Democratic strategist....
...She is the author of the first book by a black Zimbabwean woman to be published in English and her latest novel, This Mournable Body, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020....
...A spokesman for the Commanders didn’t have a comment, while the NFL said it is co-operating with the Oversight investigation and has tapped former Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Jo White to...
...At a time of sabre-rattling from Moscow, Not One Inch (Yale, February), Mary Sarotte’s examination of the making of the post-cold war world, is very timely....
...Debut novels dominated 2020’s Booker Prize shortlist, and there are several titles that are worth watching out for in the coming year....
...(FT) Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart has won the 2020 Booker Prize for his debut novel Shuggie Bain....
...I lived down the road from Mary Quant, where she opened her first shop, and I tried to fit my thunder thighs into her skinny skirts. It was just lovely.”...
...Beautifully written and Booker-shortlisted, the novel is also unexpectedly funny in a rueful way....
...The century-old company is home to contemporary authors such as Stephen King and Mary Higgins Clark while its backlist includes literary greats such as Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway....
...Cynthia Pine, a professor of dental public health at Queen Mary’s, University of London, is pleased to have an opportunity to meet other professors featured in the exhibition....
...Child’s fans include Philip Pullman, Rick Gekoski and Margaret Drabble, and he is one of this year’s Booker Prize judges....
...Will it win Mantel the Booker Prize for the third time? That would certainly make for a happy ending, something the books themselves are reliably short of....
...Mary Farley, a forensic therapist with a penchant for birds, ex-wife of artist Matthew Barney and now owner of Marfa Vista Real Estate, took a look and blessed the purchase....
...Simon Schama, FT contributing editor If the Booker judges can do a duet so can I....
...Mary Anne Marsh, a Democratic political analyst, said: “The figures underline how Pete Buttigieg has caught everybody’s attention in the way Barack Obama did before.”...
...But Mr Biden was not on her shortlist of preferred candidates, which included Ms Warren, Ms Harris, Mr Buttigieg and New Jersey senator Cory Booker....
...This time the setting is Rwanda, 1981, and a tiny village where a Catholic schoolgirl claims to have seen the Virgin Mary....
...Black Leopard, Red Wolf , by Marlon James, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£20/Riverhead, RRP$30 The first instalment of James’s Dark Star trilogy, which the 2017 Man Booker winner has described as an “African Game...
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