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15 Books Featuring Unconventional Narrators
28 Mar 2024 17:29 GMT
… "Nutshell" by Ian McEwan:
In Ian McEwan's book "Nutshell,… :
In Pamuk's novel, we come across a fascinating … Michael Chabon:
Chabon's novella tells an engaging story where … Hiron Ennes:
In this unique novel, we meet a narrator …
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Authors including Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan and Philip Pullman demand Royal Society of Literature holds emergency meeting after its magazine was suspended 'over one article with passage sympathetic to Palestine'
06 Mar 2024 20:45 GMT
… the fellows
By Matt Drake
Published: 14:08 EST, 6 March … including Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan and Philip Pullman have added … 'cancelled' by her publisher.
An email exchange between a …
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Author Mary Costello: ‘I want my characters to be rattled by something’
03 Mar 2024 05:35 GMT
… clay into porcelain.” Her first novel, Academy Street (2014), … it. When her first book was published, she quit teaching. She … stories that unfold unexpectedly.” Ian McEwan’s short stories blew her … happen in rewrites,” the author says. “Sometimes my characters …
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Indefensible! Lawyer James Woolf turns novelist for new thriller
22 Feb 2024 16:28 GMT
… people who have read the book have said to me: ‘ … , Damon Galgut, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan, among others.
As for the … devastating consequences.
And as the novel’s strapline reads: “His dream …
• Indefensible. By James Woolf, Bloodhound Books, £11.99
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What do Phil Mitchell, Alan Titchmarsh and Kim Jong-Un have in common? How British classics like Eastenders and Top Gear feature on North Korean TV next to the despot leader (as Alan and his trousers become too hot to handle for the dictator state)
27 Mar 2024 09:31 GMT
… film Atonement.
Based on the Ian McEwan book, the Second World War drama … appeared in 33 Agatha Christie novels and 51 of her short …
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Christopher Priest, sci-fi novelist whose book The Prestige became a film
14 Feb 2024 18:43 GMT
… of Young British Novelists anthology, alongside Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie and … making. The author of unsettling and shadowy science fiction novels, he resisted … the respected literary novelist and the author of fantasy books with a cult …
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Better Broken Than New by Lisa St Aubin de Terán review – from bank robber’s bride to best young novelist
11 Feb 2024 11:14 GMT
… , where money was scant but books were plentiful. Divorced again, she … writers including Martin Amis and Ian McEwan. While her penchant for Edwardian … in addition to eight more novels, published five works of memoir. Inevitably …
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Ian McEwan: Aspiring writers should disconnect from internet for two hours a day
19 Dec 2023 16:28 GMT
Ian McEwan encouraged aspiring young writers to “ … period of time.
The Atonement author said that Charles had asked … , who published his latest work, Lessons, in 2022, said the novel has … own work, he added: “Every book in a sense feels like …
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Writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in January
31 Jan 2024 14:58 GMT
… and strangeness of the novel compelling, but this was … Koja’s 1991 debut novel about Nicholas, an alcoholic … Ian McEwan’s The Comfort of Strangers, a mean and perfect little book … to Bookmarks
Discover new books with our expert reviews, author interviews …
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Jim O’Brien: Humanity’s sense of optimism survived the Cold War, but will a hot planet kill it off?
26 Mar 2024 03:07 GMT
… a new era.
In his novel Lessons, author Ian McEwan’s main character, Roland …