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Saoirse film set to hit right note as an opera
(21 Mar 2010 01:58)
... England of class divisions and war, the 2001 novel Atonement was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The opera could premiere in 2013. After that, McEwan and Berkeley were said to ...
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Bob Hoover: 'Old-time' fiction under fire (Today)
(21 Mar 2010 06:06)
... on sale Tuesday. The British novelist is a known quantity -- 13 books, one Booker Prize ("Amsterdam") and several film versions including "Atonement." The new McEwan is no ground breaker ...
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Heston Blumenthal says there may be 'criminal action' over his sewage-infested oysters
(20 Mar 2010 23:10)
... increase scepticism about the merits of such awards, the literary director of the Man Booker Prize has admitted that Jane Austen would have been a loser. Ion Trewin says the ...
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Despite the bleakness, alice left us laughing
(20 Mar 2010 12:24)
... New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly and Mademoiselle. In 2009, she was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work. The Grundy Book Club was formed four years ...
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Outrages are not the only truth
(20 Mar 2010 16:12)
... The Chairman of the Orange Prize, Daisy Goodwin, has ploughed her way through ... I sympathise. When I was a Man Booker judge there were numerous novels about alcoholics ...
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THE winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize, released in paperback last week, is a brilliantly written historical epic charting the rise of one of the most influential characters in Henry VIII s court. Thomas Cromwell, Putney born b
(17 Mar 2010 10:36)
... THE winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize, released in paperback last week, is a brilliantly written historical epic charting the rise ...
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Booker winner Mantel on Orange Prize long list
(17 Mar 2010 15:06)
... Booker winner Mantel on Orange Prize long list Last Updated: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | 10:18 AM ET Hilary Mantel's ...
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Mantel on Orange Prize longlist
(17 Mar 2010 08:41)
... Booker winner Hilary Mantel on Orange Prize longlist Mantel won the Booker Prize for Wolf Hall in October last year Booker ...
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Mantel joins seven first-time novelists on Orange Prize longlist
(17 Mar 2010 12:58)
... Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel has been named on the 20-stong longlist for the coveted Orange ...
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Eleanor Catton on Orange Prize long list
(17 Mar 2010 05:29)
... on the long list for the Orange Prize for Fiction honouring women writers in the ... The Long Song, and compatriot Mantel, the Booker Prize winner last year, is on the ...
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Levy, Mantel battle 7 debut novels for Orange prize
(17 Mar 2010 00:39)
... in the longlist for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction honouring women writers in the ... "The Long Song," and compatriot Mantel, the Booker Prize winner last year, is longlisted for ...
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Levy, Mantel battle 7 debut novels for UK prize
(17 Mar 2010 05:23)
... in the longlist for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction honoring women writers in the ... "The Long Song," and compatriot Mantel, the Booker Prize winner last year, is longlisted for ...
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Ex-thesis in line for top prize
(17 Mar 2010 09:57)
... has been longlisted for this year's Orange Prize for Fiction. Eleanor Catton, 24, began writing ... been pitted against literary heavyweights such as Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel longlisted for ...
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Booker's a prize
(16 Mar 2010 20:02)
... Senior forward Trevor Booker has been a big reason Clemson earned a No. 7 seed in the NCAA ...
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Read 'em and weep! The literati may love them, but I am fed up with miserable modern novels
(18 Mar 2010 03:01)
... Yesterday, Daisy Goodwin, chairwoman of the Orange Prize judging panel, complained that the 129 novels ... Gathering by Anne Enright winning the 2007 Booker Prize? Critics described this account of an ...
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