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Another prize chance for Sebastian Barry as Costa shortlists are announced

guardian.co.uk
10 hrs ago 10 related
        

Another chance for Sebastian Barry as Costa shortlists are announced Shortlists for the five categories of the Costa book awards avoid some of the bigger books of the year – and give others a second shot at a prize Booker miss,...

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‘I don’t want my kid reading that book’

csmonitor.com
15-Nov-2008
        

It’s a conundrum as old as parenting itself: Do you protect your children from what they may not be old enough to understand or do you free them to learn certain lessons first hand? But perhaps nowhere does it play itself out...

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Atheists believe in the power of advertising

delawareonline.com
14-Nov-2008 3 related
        

WASHINGTON -- Atheists this week are bringing their own holiday message to Washington-area commuters, with advertisements on Metrobuses that read: "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake."

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Daniel Craig finds more than ‘Solace’ in being Bond

thenewstribune.com
14-Nov-2008 14 related
        

LONDON – It took two years of high-level negotiations to arrange a meeting with Daniel Craig. In an era when MI6 – the agency that employs his best-known character, James Bond – blithely advertises for agents on the Internet,...

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Cultural Life: Philip Pullman, author

independent.co.uk
14-Nov-2008
        

Visual Arts Visited Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery on Saturday, and was impressed, as I always am, by the storytelling skill of the Victorian narrative painters. Yeames's 'And when did you last see your father?' is composed and...

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OPINION: Writers be warned ‘something for nothing’ culture will damage your long term propects

icnetwork.co.uk
13-Nov-2008
        

Nov 13 2008 by Alistair Houghton, Liverpool Daily Post INTELLECTUAL property (IP) matters, whether it’s your own or you deal as a business in other people’s. Government figures place the creative industries’ value at around...

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Money for Pegasus

bookwitch.wordpress.com
13-Nov-2008
        

It was about this time last year that the witch and Son went to Oxford to part with some money in aid of the Pegasus Theatre project. The big temptation, as usual, was Philip Pullman, who we noticed drives a car proclaiming him...

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Stripping the spy down to his manners

mi6.co.uk
12-Nov-2008 937 related
        

It took two years of high-level negotiations to arrange a meeting with Daniel Craig. In an era when MI6 — the agency that employs his best-known character, James Bond — blithely advertises for agents on the Internet, Mr. Craig...

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Oldest museum to close for year

bbc.co.uk
11-Nov-2008 5 related
        

The UK's oldest public museum - Oxford University's Ashmolean - is to close for almost a year while the building undergoes major development work. The previous display space will be doubled. There will be 39 new galleries, a...

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Colman Getty PEN Quiz 2008

englishpen.org
10-Nov-2008
        

Venue: Cafe Royal, 68 Regent Street, London English PEN and Colman Getty invite you to sharpen your wits and raise vital funds for the premier literary charity at the 2008 Colman Getty PEN Quiz, hosted by Dara Ó Briain. Last...

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