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...Another comes from Carmel’s memories of her father leaving the family when she was 12, her mother Terry’s illness, and the cruelty meted out to Carmel by her older sister Imelda, a character self-ennobled...
...A new documentary co-directed by the cinema’s former booker Jane Giles and then-teenage habitué Ali Catterall, Scala!!!, celebrates its legacy....
...There were the publicists, almost a new concept in that business; bookshops and the creation of Waterstones; and festivals, with Hay-on-Wye leading the way. Literary prizes made the front pages....
...And then there was 2019 and the decision of Peter Florence, founder of the Hay Festival, and his judging panel to award the prize to two winners....
...Like previous winners — including Helen Fielding and Terry Pratchett — Everett received champagne, a complete set of PG Wodehouse and will have a pig named after his winning book, a nod to Wodehouse’s fondness...
...“I’ve always wanted to change the world,” Carmen Callil told the Hay Festival this summer, explaining why she started the feminist publishing house Virago Press....
...It came amid a wider, intensifying debate about the greater recognition of the work of translators, which was one of the talking points of this year’s International Booker....
...But something shifted when I came across the lilac cover of the Booker-nominated Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi last year....
...The move went against the Booker’s rules and exasperated its organisers, although Florence claimed it was “unanimous”....
...Among them are Strafford and one of Banville’s more delightfully comic creations, Terry Tice, an assassin as pathologically attached to his favourite firearm as he is indifferent to his victims....
...The teenage Keane was away, but she never forgot her mother describing the smoke tinged with the scent of clover from the hay fields....
...Like Brando’s frustrated boxer, Terry, her “family” — the Labour movement — required her to take a fall....
...Sapkowski, now 71, lives in Lodz and is as big a star in Poland as Terry Pratchett was in the UK....
...Booker Prize....
...“It was the collective will of the jury to say, ‘we cannot abide by these rules’,” said Mr Florence, who is also director of the Hay Festival....
...Peter Florence, director of the Hay Festival and this year’s chair, said the judges had tried voting to find a winner, but that didn’t work. Come again?...
...Marcelino Sambé’s witty, wicked, immaculately danced Mercutio is preserved for posterity, as is James Hay’s saucy, spring-driven Benvolio and Matthew Ball’s brooding, bitter Tybalt....
...Some observed that similar plaudits were showered on Terry Leahy, a previous Tesco leader who stood aside in 2010....
...Hays, the recruitment company, enlisted Bank of America to work with house brokers Jefferies and UBS to raise £200m....
...We mostly adore the same stuff: Dorothy Draper, moiré silk, Emilio Terry, shell grottoes, ceramics shaped like fish....
...Described by Daisy Hay in the FT as “a riotous reimagining with an energy and passion all of its own”....
...If that transition went smoothly, Mr Lewis would outshine Tesco’s long-time boss Terry Leahy. When he stepped down in 2011, his succession plan did not stand the test of time....
...Several major shareholders voiced concerns about the £3.7bn takeover of Booker, the wholesaler, considering it premature to be making acquisitions when the core business was still being rehabilitated....
...Tesco is still struggling in some of its overseas divisions, which are a legacy of global empire building in the noughties by former long-serving chief executive Terry Leahy....
...This week: two titans of literature with four Booker Prizes between them....
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