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Alain de Botton: You'll regret those words until your dying day 2 Jul 2009 20:01 GMT
... Genuinely under the impression that this time it was his turn to win the Booker Prize, Bradbury took my review to heart. Some years later, at a festival party in ...
CMU's Hilary Masters fiction, essays in '09 (06/30/2009) 2 Jul 2009 06:11 GMT
... from Masters, but several other veteran authors. British novelist Graham Swift, author of the Booker Prize winner, "Last Orders," writes about writing in "Making an Elephant" (Knopf, $26.95). Accompanying the ...
Desolation by the sea 2 Jul 2009 05:52 GMT
... J. Hyland won the Encore and the Hawthornden Awards and was shortlisted for the Booker prize for her second novel Carry Me Down. In it, she used a similarly damaged ...
A life in letters is history repeated 1 Jul 2009 06:41 GMT
... about the Reagan administration. And most recently, I have been sucked into A.S. Byatt’s Booker Prize winning book “ .” This is one experience where I was not as appalled ...
CMU's Hilary Masters fiction, essays in '09 (Yesterday) 1 Jul 2009 05:21 GMT
... from Masters, but several other veteran authors. British novelist Graham Swift, author of the Booker Prize winner, "Last Orders," writes about writing in "Making an Elephant" (Knopf, $26.95). Accompanying the ...

Booker Winner Adiga's New Short Stories 30 Jun 2009 21:31 GMT
... be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET Writer Aravind Adiga won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for his novel The White Tiger. Now, he has a book of 14 short ...
Literary giants at Port Eliot 30 Jun 2009 12:30 GMT
... of Young British Novelists. Her first novel, Brick Lane , was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the George Orwell Prize for political writing and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Monica is ...
CMU's Hilary Masters fiction, essays in '09 (Today) 30 Jun 2009 05:01 GMT
... from Masters, but several other veteran authors. British novelist Graham Swift, author of the Booker Prize winner, "Last Orders," writes about writing in "Making an Elephant" (Knopf, $26.95). Accompanying the ...
CMU's Hilary Masters fiction, essays in '09 30 Jun 2009 05:01 GMT
... from Masters, but several other veteran authors. British novelist Graham Swift, author of the Booker Prize winner, "Last Orders," writes about writing in "Making an Elephant" (Knopf, $26.95). Accompanying the ...
CRAIG BROWN: Don't cash in those Michael Jackson tickets just yet 30 Jun 2009 02:50 GMT
... the then head of Channel 4; Mick Jackson, the novelist shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize; Michael J. Jackson, the actor best known for his role in Brookside; Mick Jackson, ...

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'How much for Janis's letters? Holy cow. Is rock 'n' roll the new literature?' 30 Jun 2009 00:30 GMT
... Bloomsbury book-dealership, Gekoski is a voluble American academic, author, broadcaster, Coventry FC fan and Booker Prize judge, whose attitude to the second-hand book market is mischievous. His catalogues often feature ...
Don't cash in those Michael Jackson tickets just yet 29 Jun 2009 19:30 GMT
... the then head of Channel 4; Mick Jackson, the novelist shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize; Michael J. Jackson, the actor best known for his role in Brookside; Mick Jackson, ...
Dublin college honours Alice Munro 29 Jun 2009 15:10 GMT
... take the opportunity through Jonathan Taylor to remind us of the role of the Booker Prize Foundation. He, in turn, introduces Jon Aisbitt, who heads Man Group plc (an investment ...
'In the Kitchen' book plot cooks slowly 28 Jun 2009 06:30 GMT
... who enjoyed the author's first book "Brick Lane" (which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize) will likely appreciate "In the Kitchen." Those who didn't like "Brick Lane" probably won't ...
Writing well, winning, selling 28 Jun 2009 00:30 GMT
... debut novel, The Harmony Silk Factory : In 2005, it got onto the Man Booker Prize longlist, and won the Whitbread First Novel Award and Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best ...
In a category all of his own 26 Jun 2009 23:50 GMT
... success for nearly 10 years. His 10 novels include Headlong (shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize), The Tin Men (winner of the 1966 Somerset Maugham Award), The Russian Interpreter (1967 ...
A bewildering failure 26 Jun 2009 23:50 GMT
... good second novel as Carry Me Down which was short-listed for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, any reader would be asking questions as to how a narrative as ill-conceived as ...
Alice Munro receives International Man Booker prize 26 Jun 2009 14:12 GMT
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The Secret Speech 26 Jun 2009 10:12 GMT
... Smith’s wrenching 2008 debut “Child 44,” which won accolades and was long-listed for the Booker Prize. In that novel, Leo Stepanovich Demidov, a member of the Soviet secret police, decided ...
Talent on show at arts festival 26 Jun 2009 09:51 GMT
... be reading from her new book Wolf Hall, which has been tipped for The Booker Prize. The reading takes place at 4.30pm on Saturday, July 11, in St Mary Magdalene ...

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The Meanderings of an Off-Duty Novelist 26 Jun 2009 07:51 GMT
... made of Mr. Swift's books; about what it's like to be nominated for a Booker Prize. There are also mile-high flyovers of writers like Isaac Babel and Montaigne. But Mr. ...
Moving encounter with master storyteller 26 Jun 2009 02:11 GMT
... Previously won by the Albanian Ismail Kadare and Nigeria's Chinua Achebe, the International Man Booker Prize, worth £60,000, is based on a body of work. Munro's Canadian editor famously said ...
Munro honoured in Dublin with Man Booker International Prize 25 Jun 2009 21:11 GMT
... Booker International Prize was introduced in 2004 as an off-shoot to the main Man Booker Prize, which honours the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the ...
TV times a'changing 25 Jun 2009 17:50 GMT
... Katherine Rushton is chief reporter on Broadcast, and was formerly senior reporter at The Bookseller. For ...
Norwich bids for UNESCO title 25 Jun 2009 16:30 GMT
... and Alexander McCall Smith. And, as well as the triumph of attracting the Man Booker prize, the trust is also rightly proud of: Co-ordinating and delivering the first citywide reading ...