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...Oxford-based author Simon Mason has made a mark with his almost identically named sleuths Ray Wilkins and Ryan Wilkins, the former precise and formal, the latter dishevelled (and now discharged from his...
...As Ryan McMorrow reports, the US Securities and Exchange Commission is now investigating the botched IPO....
...Two striking new novels in translation: from Spain, Even the Darkest Night by Javier Cercas (MacLehose, £16.99, translated by Anne McLean) and, from Sweden, We Know You Remember by Tove Alsterdal (Faber,...
...I don’t go out of my way to recommend titles that require a strong stomach, but I’m making an exception for Come Join Our Disease by Sam Byers (Faber & Faber, 11hr 40min), narrated by Heydon Elijah....
...His narrative mirrors that of Natalie, a gay girl living in Dover with her father and older brother Ryan....
...“Mainstream computer games — if they have any gay and lesbian characters, they’re always playing a minor part,” says developer Ryan Best in the new Netflix video game documentary series High Score....
...Pokémon Detective Pikachu, a surprisingly likeable family film, transformed cutesy Pikachu into a hard-boiled sleuth with the voice of Ryan Reynolds....
...When Ryan and Amy Green’s infant son, Joel, was diagnosed with cancer, they made a game about their experience. That Dragon, Cancer bares the pain of grief, but also has moments of humour and solace....
...FX series Pose — co-created by Ryan Murphy, the force behind Nip/Tuck, Glee and American Horror Story — dramatised the late 1980s ballroom scene, balancing gritty realities with soapy splashes of joy and...
...In one telling passage, the group’s young manager Ryan Gentles — who had never managed so much as a fantasy sports team before wooing The Strokes — describes how a single early photograph of them helped...
...Narrated from the perspective of both man and wife, it is an unsentimental yet affecting portrayal of the trials of marriage and, later, parenthood. 4321 , by Paul Auster, Faber, RRP£20 / Henry Holt, RRP...
...All Involved, by Ryan Gattis, Picador, RRP£12.99/Ecco, RRP$27 For six days in 1992, Los Angeles rioted, the police retreated and the city’s gangs ran wild....
...Fintan Ryan, analyst at Berenberg, says: “Bottled water is dilutive to group margins....
...Rachel Cusk’s Outline (Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) falls into neither camp....
...Claire Kilroy is author of ‘The Devil I Know’ (Faber)...
...The Dispatcher , by Ryan David Jahn, Macmillan, RRP£12.99 Meet the parents whose need for a child at any cost launches them on a bullet riddled cross-state chase....
...The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist, by Orhan Pamuk, Faber, RRP£14.99, 200 pages The Good of the Novel, edited by Liam McIlvanney and Ray Ryan, Faber, RRP£12.99, 225 pages Writing fiction has never...
...If it’s in a war-zone, my friend Sue Ryan, as she’s incredibly resourceful, if it’s a boy’s weekend, my pals George, Jimmy and Deano because they’re up for all sorts of nonsense and always big fun....
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