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Tinder Press pre-empts Mahfouz's 'personal and political' look at British Empire

Tinder has acquired These Bodies of Water: Navigating Britain's Imprint on the Middle East by Sabrina Mahfouz, a "powerful meditation" on the influence of the British Empire.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-07 13:05:17 UTC ]
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JG Farrell's The Singapore Grip: new TV adaptation brings to life the final book by one of the UK's finest novelists

The writer was drowned at the age of 44, but he left three novels which have come to represent the decline of the British Empire. Continue reading at 'The Conversation'

[ The Conversation | 2020-09-03 13:13:15 UTC ]
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Glenda Bailey Is One Grande ‘Dame’

I first met Glenda Bailey for lunch in 1999, three years after she transitioned from founding editor-in-chief of the British Marie Claire to editor-in-chief of the fledgling U.S. edition—after Bonnie Fuller had left that magazine to succeed Helen Gurley Brown at Cosmopolitan. I recall being... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'

[ Folio Magazine | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booker Prize winner: Murder mystery wins prestigious award

Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton wrote an 832-page murder mystery set in Catton's homeland, New Zealand. This is the last year that the Man Booker Prize will be open only to writers from the former British Empire. Continue reading at 'The Christian Science Monitor'

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperPress uncovers Empire of Secrets

HarperPress has signed a book examining the role of the intelligence service during the end of the British Empire. Editorial director Martin Redfern bought UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada) rights at auction to Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton from Jon Elek at A P Watt. The book will be... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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