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...This is not to imply that Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song (Bolinda, 8 hrs 32 mins), which last week won the Booker Prize, is an onerous duty to be endured....
...John Banville is an Irish novelist, the author of the Booker Prize-winner “The Sea”....
...Born in 1969 to a mother who was a nurse and an engineer father, Gilbert grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Connecticut, nurturing an early interest in writing....
...Old God’s Time is the enthralling ninth novel in a series of interconnected works (relating to two fictional Irish families) by the twice Costa-winning, twice Booker-nominated former Laureate for Irish fiction...
...I remember the nurse’s eyes afterwards when I went in in 2004, and the practitioner asking me whether I recalled anything of the procedure....
...There is darkness and brutality aplenty, especially in “The Terminal Artist”, about a serial-killer nurse, and the titular story in which a man predicts his own murder....
...Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke, Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar will all be duelling it out live on TV....
...Huff’s landlady is Miss Carla Hahn, formerly Orla’s nurse, and the pair stumble via innumerable misunderstandings towards some sort of grudging romance....
...Key board members: a closer look Niall Booker Having been appointed by Euan Sutherland, former Co-operative Group chief executive, Mr Booker is a key Co-op reformer, writes Sharlene Goff....
...Her task was made even tougher by the agreement not to reveal why I was going into book promo purdah, an alien concept to media bookers, and to me....
...His novels have dealt with conflicts from the hundred years war (Blood Red, Sister Rose, 1974) and the American civil war (Confederates, 1979) to the second world war (the Man Booker-winning Schindler’s...
...Additional reporting by Christopher Booker...
...Six roles apiece for Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant (from US oil tycoon to 23rd-century painted cannibal), Jim Broadbent and multiple baddie Hugo Weaving, his finest epiphany a big-busted nurse in the...
...Booker prize-winning Irish novelist John Banville tells me at the book festival how a humbleness was lost in the boom....
...His son’s novel was published in 2006 and short-listed for the Booker Prize, Britain’s top literary award. The fact that the book is set in 1979 is a sad reminder of how long Libya has suffered....
...Teenaged Gabriele is the supposed model for Michelangelo’s statue, a young stonecutter who shared a wet-nurse with the older artist....
...Goodbye Lucille by Segun Afolabi Jonathan Cape ₤11.99, 312 pages FT bookshopprice: ₤9.59 In 2005 Nigeria-born Segun Afolabi won the Caine prize - the African equivalent of the Booker - for his short story...
...John Sutherland was chair of the Man Booker committee, 2005....
...She is a nurse, he a former soldier, now a painter and decorator. We watch the pair in the early days of their relationship, “When you don’t know yet, whether you are in love....
...Would it have been a runner-up for the 2005 Booker Prize?...
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