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...And in her 2014 bibliomemoir My Life in Middlemarch, the journalist and writer Rebecca Mead explains why she returned to George Eliot’s 1871 masterpiece: “I was growing restless, and I felt ready to turn...
...This is Rebecca F Kuang’s fifth novel — at 27, she is already a cross-genre literary phenomenon....
...Hands of Time: A Watchmaker’s History of Time by Rebecca Struthers, a Birmingham-based watchmaker, offers a history of timekeeping alongside a meditation on the value of our hours and days....
...Designer Yves Béhar and MIT-based human-machine communication specialist Professor Deb Roy spearheaded design for a bassinet that used artificial intelligence to respond to a baby’s cry with rocking and...
...Across town, Nate is managing West Ham, owned by the odious ex of Richmond owner Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham)....
...Tim Harford FT columnist We’re all used to complaining about the Big Tech monopolies, but Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow shows how widespread the problem now is, and how smarter...
...I quickly added Rebecca Roanhorse’s Between Earth and Sky fantasy series, inspired by the civilisations of pre-Columbian America, and Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library to my book-buying list....
...Rebecca Rose cricketer package holidays It was 1986, I was nine, and it was my first package holiday....
...Roy Cohn, the corrupt and unscrupulous assistant prosecutor who in real life secured Ethel’s death sentence (and later acted as an attorney for Donald Trump) also features, dripping with lust for Esther/...
...It’s a theme that underpins works including Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2000), Rebecca Solnit’s magnificent study of cultural, political and spiritual quests — and also Lauren Elkin’s Flaneuse: Women...
...Further fish-out-of-water fun comes in the form of abrasive former Chelsea hard man Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein), who’s now coaching an enthralled bunch of tinies: his next cup final is the West London Under-Nine...
...But Susan Hill’s Mrs de Winter, a 1993 sequel to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, left many of her fans disappointed — it was weak tea to du Maurier’s strong, acid broth. Another middling attempt?...
...“Rebecca, always Rebecca,” she writes. “Wherever I walked in Manderley, wherever I sat, even in my thoughts and in my dreams, I met Rebecca.”...
...But it was with her departure from Labour to found the Social Democratic party in 1981 — with her fellow “Gang of Four” members Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Bill Rodgers — that she made her biggest mark on...
...The second laid siege to the bookshops, stocking up on Hilary Mantel and Rebecca Solnit. I bought books as greedily as stashes of chocolate....
...One of the greatest writers of the last century, Rebecca West, spent six weeks travelling through a fraught, disunited Yugoslavia in 1937....
...Then, instinctively, you reach for books — from the essays of James Baldwin to the letters of Jawaharlal Nehru or Mahatma Gandhi; the words of Martin Luther King on civil liberties or Rebecca Solnit on the...
...Nilanjana Roy FT columnist The battle between Ayurveda and yoga on one hand, and the Indian fondness for masala dosas and biryani on the other, is exciting to watch....
...Read more The shame of my very low Uber rating — Rebecca Rose ‘Once, as the customer, you were always right. Now you have to watch your back.’...
...In 1969, PH Newby accepted a cheque for £5,000 from the chair of the first Booker Prize jury, Dame Rebecca West, for his novel Something To Answer For....
...The Ministry of Utmost Happiness , by Arundhati Roy, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99/Knopf, RRP$28.95 This is Roy’s first novel since her 1997 Booker Prize-winning The God of Small Things....
...Several literary heavyweights did not make it beyond the longlist, including Arundhati Roy for The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Zadie Smith for Swing Time, Sebastian Barry for Days Without End and Colson...
...Notable absences from the shortlist include Arundhati Roy whose book, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness , was her first since The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997....
...The Ministry of Utmost Happiness , by Arundhati Roy, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99 / Knopf, RRP$28.95 Arguably the biggest publishing event of the year, this is Roy’s first novel since her 1997 Booker Prize-winning...
...Rebecca Abrams, the FT’s reviewer, said: “Few writers hold a more unflinching mirror up to Israeli society....
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