John Murray

Books of the year

Was it Thomas Cromwell's machinations, a frustrated MP's diaries, or a novelist's treatment of his father's suicide? We asked a few people… Peter Carey – novelist Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury) has huge ambition...

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Wired Science: One Long Bluff

According to a recent online report from Wired Science, “On one of the Galápagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in...

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Salvation Army seeks donations through its direct mail program

Desperate times equal desperate measures, says, Captain John Murray of The Salvation Army as reports of a "Salvation Army Santa", an unauthorized individual going door-to-door trying to collect donations in North York, Ontario...

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Ireland demands replay in soccer controversy

By John Murray Brown in Dublin and Ben Hall in Paris Ireland has called on Fifa, world football’s governing body, to replay Wednesday’s World Cup qualifying match against France, after a handball by French player Thierry Henry...

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Irish industrial harmony faces pay talk test

By John Murray Brown in Dublin Ireland’s reputation for industrial harmony faces its biggest test in more than 20 years this week as government and trade unions struggle to agree a new centralised pay deal. Teachers, nurses,...

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A diarist dissected: The man in the Panama hat

The observations of an English socialite James Lees-Milne: The Life. By Michael Bloch. John Murray; 400 pages; GBP25. Buy from Amazon.co.uk JAMES LEES-MILNE (1908-97) notched up two big achievements. First, he was a seminal...

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Who will win the 2009 bad sex in fiction award

Evan Maloney Friday, November 20, 2009 at 05:48am It’s time for the the Literary Review’s annual bad sex in fiction prize, and I don’t know if it’s my memory playing games with my history of sexual literature, but I’m getting...

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Scam artist Santa roams GTA

Residents of North York and Mississauga are being warned there's a Santa out there being more naughty than nice. The Salvation Army issued a warning Thursday to beware of a bogus Santa who's going door-to-door collecting money....

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What's in a place name? Part two

An examination of the place names of the Tantramar region leads to the conclusion that they encompass, in the broadest of outlines, an historical and cultural road map of this area. It will not be a surprise to learn that...

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NG3863 : Sunset on Uig Bay

near to Idrigill, Highland, Great Britain On a beautifully calm Autumn evening. !!! BEING AN OCCASIONAL SURFER ON THE INTERNET, I WAS DELIGHTED TO NO END UPON STUMBLING UPON THE POSTED PICTURE'S I DISCOVERED WHILE SURFING...

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