Booker Time – and Time for Poetry
We are inching towards Booker time again, signalled by the publication of the nominations for the prize. Some have commented […]
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We are inching towards Booker time again, signalled by the publication of the nominations for the prize. Some have commented […]
Read more →A couple of weeks ago, Barbara Kingsolver was being celebrated for being the first person to win the Women’s Prize […]
Read more →The Death of Cormac McCarthy The literary world has been shaken by the death of American novelist Cormac McCarthy, whose […]
Read more →It has to be said that we do not often feature grouse-beaters on royal estates on these pages. We’ve not […]
Read more →I bet you have heard of Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro. How about Iain Banks, Ben Okri, Kamila […]
Read more →It is always good to discover a writer that you haven’t come across before. The winners of the Windham-Campbell Prizes […]
Read more →Two British Asian writers have been in the news lately, both for unfortunate reasons. The first, of course, is Salman […]
Read more →I wrote over three years ago about how language is used politically and while the issue never goes away, it […]
Read more →The Booker Prize winner was announced this week – we looked at the shortlist a little while ago. Slightly disappointingly, […]
Read more →Donna Tartt, the American novelist, has been featured quite heavily over the last few days, as it is 30 years […]
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