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Nov 7, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Matilda Battersby |Julian Barnes
You are viewing your 1 free article this month. Login to read more articles. News The charity Freedom from Torture has launched its literary auction today, with prizes including the chance to become a named character in the next bestseller from authors including Michael Morpurgo, Douglas Stuart, Robert Harris, Adele Parks and Ian Rankin.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | A.S. Byatt |George Saunders |J.M. Coetzee |Julian Barnes
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, winner of the Booker Prize 2017An anarchic, grotesque, bawdy, foul-mouthed, tender, grief-stricken, hopeful, human novel, set within a graveyard. George Saunders’ 2017 Booker Prize-winning novel boasts a cast of hundreds – almost all of whom are dead. Lincoln in the Bardo is set in the days following the death of Abraham Lincoln’s son, Willie, and focuses on the grief-stricken President’s visits to the crypt to hold his deceased child’s body.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Julian Barnes
When the distinguished Belgian writer Hugo Claus was first diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, he emailed his friends to say that when the disease had advanced to the point that he would be soon unable to make decisions, he would end his life. Accordingly, in March 2008, he died at a legal Belgian facility. The Catholic church naturally condemned his action.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
shepherd.com | David Clensy |Julian Barnes |John Banville |Michael Ondaatje
I was captivated by Julian Barnes’ treatment of memory and time in this novel, which tells the story of Tony Webster and his group of school friends, whose relationships fracture and strain as life and death leave their marks on their lives. In his retirement, Webster's own memories of his youth prove unreliable.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
torbayweekly.co.uk | Julian Barnes
Join David Fitzgerald as he heads to Brixham Rugby Club to discuss their 150th anniversary, to Derriford Hospital Radio for the launch of their digital audio broadcasting system and to meet a Royal Marine who is rowing the Atlantic for Ukraine. Listen here or on Spotify, Amazon Music or Google Play.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Patricia Lockwood |Margaret Atwood |Julian Barnes |Jan Morris
The concerns of dystopian fiction have a habit of coming back around. The repressive society in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was looking a touch dated by the time its title year rolled in; under the shadow of the lumbering, top-heavy Soviet Union, the thought of any state maintaining a repressive system of 1984’s efficiency seemed a mere category error. But the book’s cynicism bit deeper as the Eighties swept by and the age of the digital panopticon unveiled new tools for human control.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
middevonadvertiser.co.uk | Julian Barnes
Newton Abbot's branch of nationwide retailer, Wilko, closed its doors last month (Patrick Beasley / MDA) I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from Mid Devon Advertiser. Read our privacy noticeAhead of a national roll-out across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, five stand-alone concept stores will open before Christmas 2023, with the first two in Devon.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
creditoncourier.co.uk | Julian Barnes
The new stores will offer great value items across categories including cleaning and household, decorating and DIY, garden and outdoor, homeware, pets and wildlife, storage, seasonal celebrations such as Christmas, and more. Customers will also be able to self-serve the full wilko.com range for home delivery (over 100,000 items) using in-store terminals.
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
harpers.org | Julian Barnes
by Julian Barnes , From the introduction to The Family Diary, a 2024 planner edited by Julian Rothenstein, which was published last month by Redstone Press. If, when a child is growing up, it develops a spirit of rebellion, the closest institution to revolt against is the family. The family is where you are first misjudged, maltreated, belittled, lied to and beaten—or not.
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Apr 15, 2023 | 
newsrnd.com | Mel Brooks |Julian Barnes
Mel Brooks, center, in the role of Frederick Bronski, during a parody of Hitler in his film 'To be or not to be' (1983).Pictorial Press / AlamyProfessor Andersen's Night, by Dag Solstad, one of the most relevant Norwegian authors today, is the featured book of the week. It tells of the moral consequences for Professor Andersen, who is 55 years old and Professor of Norwegian Literature at a prestigious university, witnessing a murder... and doing nothing. Why didn't he report the crime?
