A. S. Byatt

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First Reported 17 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 Documents

More drama in courtroom

Silk (BBC1, 9pm) Dirty Britain (ITV1, 9pm) Roundhead or Cavalier (BBC4, 9pm)THERE is no end of medical and cop shows around, so it’s good to see a fresh helping of legal drama Silk. “I was thrilled to get the chance to write more about this set of characters ... [ Published 17 hours ago by Northern Echo ]
First Reported May 12 2012 - Updated May 12 2012 - 1 Documents

This week's new events

2.8 Hours Later , LiverpoolSometimes three words are all you need. That's your chocolate. Westlife have split. Look: an otter. But how about: zombie chase game? The undead are coming, and there are no weapons to protect you – 2.8 Hours Later is in fact ... [ Published May 12 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
First Reported May 11 2012 - Updated May 11 2012 - 1 Documents

London has a new book festival

Jimmy Carr, P.D. James and A.S. Byatt are among the speakers at the first 'Words In the Park' Festival in London's Holland Park. London will host a new literary festival next weekend when the inaugural 'Words In the Park' Festival takes place in Holland ... [ Published May 11 2012 by Telegraph ]
First Reported Apr 25 2012 - Updated Apr 26 2012 - 1 Documents

World Book Night in Madrid

Hello everyone and apologies for the silence so far this week.  I’ve been in Madrid, celebrating World Book Night with an event with Philip Hensher and AS Byatt and Spanish novelist Benjamin Prado.  It was standing room only, with people turned away, ... [ Published Apr 25 2012 by Telegraph ]
First Reported Apr 04 2012 - Updated Apr 04 2012 - 1 Documents

Hirst may be a showman but his art hits the spot

The crowds will pour in to relish a room full of butterflies, a rotting cowâs head and that eternally preserved shark. Many critics will attend with the sole purpose of telling us what a wildly overpriced con it all is. An element of kabuki drama always ... [ Published Apr 04 2012 by London Evening Standard ]
First Reported Mar 31 2012 - Updated Mar 31 2012 - 1 Documents

Review: Katie Ward's 'Girl Reading' tells of women, books

A young girl in 1333, for instance, is pulled from a convent to pose for Simone Martini's Annunciation. Prey to a persuasive suitor, she becomes pregnant. In a contemporary story, a female Parliament staffer worries that marrying the wrong man may hamper ... [ Published Mar 31 2012 by St. Petersburg Times ]
First Reported Mar 25 2012 - Updated Mar 25 2012 - 1 Documents

Books in Brief, 3/25/2012

by Katie Ward (Scribner)Katie Ward's first book takes its inspiration from a handful of paintings, drawings and photographs. Though labeled a novel, "Girl Reading" is more an intricately woven collection of stories, each centered on an image of a woman ... [ Published Mar 25 2012 by Denver Post ]
First Reported Mar 25 2012 - Updated Mar 25 2012 - 1 Documents

The Blagger's Guide To ... Grimms' fairy tales

Pullman's collection will include many of the best-known fairy tales – "Rapunzel", "Snow White", "Cinderella" and "Little Red Riding Hood" – as well as other, lesser-known works. His favourite, he says, is "The Juniper Tree" – a sordid tale of an evil ... [ Published Mar 25 2012 by The Independent ]
First Reported Mar 09 2012 - Updated Mar 09 2012 - 1 Documents

John Mullan's ten of the best: fossils

Fossils turn up in all sorts of places, from 18th-century satire to modern historical fictionThree Hours after Marriage by Alexander Pope , John Gay and John Arbuthnot This satirical play by Pope and his friends mocks the 18th-century "virtuoso" and ... [ Published Mar 09 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
First Reported Feb 25 2012 - Updated Feb 25 2012 - 1 Documents

This week's new events

AV Festival , Across the north-east of EnglandWe've had slow food, slow blogging and now the AV Festival wants us to enjoy culture at a dawdling pace. That may be hard, with dozens of events. Ostensibly an art festival featuring work from 100 artists ... [ Published Feb 25 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

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More drama in courtroom [ Published 17 hours ago by Northern Echo ]
This week's new events [ Published May 12 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
London has a new book festival [ Published May 11 2012 by Telegraph ]
World Book Night in Madrid [ Published Apr 25 2012 by Telegraph ]
The man who built Babel [ Published Apr 15 2012 by Buffalo News ]
McCall Smith mines the mystery in the ordinary [ Published Apr 13 2012 by Buffalo News ]
Playwright Ford debuts first mystery, “Fall of ... [ Published Apr 09 2012 by The City Wire ]
Hirst may be a showman but his art hits the spot [ Published Apr 04 2012 by London Evening Standard ]
Review: Katie Ward's 'Girl Reading' tells of wo... [ Published Mar 31 2012 by St. Petersburg Times ]
New Novelist, Great Book: Carole DeSanti [ Published Mar 30 2012 by Chronicle of Higher Education ]
Books in Brief, 3/25/2012 [ Published Mar 25 2012 by Denver Post ]
The Blagger's Guide To ... Grimms' fairy tales [ Published Mar 25 2012 by The Independent ]
John Mullan's ten of the best: fossils [ Published Mar 09 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
This week's new events [ Published Feb 25 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
Which writer taught me most about love? [ Published Feb 10 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
On-Sale calendar: Week of February 6, 2012 [ Published Feb 03 2012 by PublishersWeekly.com ]
Byliner Launches Its New Byliner Fiction Imprin... [ Published Dec 05 2011 by PRWeb ]
Who should judge book awards? [ Published Oct 31 2011 by Salon ]
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