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Acclaimed author John Banville on growing up surrounded by institutional abuse – ‘We shouldn’t move on too quickly’
Born in the mid 1940s, John Banville is one of the Irish literary talents of his generation. In 2005, his novel The Sea won the prestigious Booker Prize. Speaking on Newstalk’s The Hard Shoulder with ...
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Donna Soucy: Good books and friends to discover them with
IF YOU have been reading this column or followed my tenure in the New Hampshire State Senate, then you know that I care ...
John Martin, Devoted Publisher of Literary Rebels, Dies at 94
Black Sparrow Press, a shoestring operation he ran out of his home, became one of the highest-profile small publishers in the ...
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From Convicted Killer to Magazine Writer: One Prisoner’s Bid for Mercy
John J. Lennon, imprisoned for a brutal 2001 murder, is now a published writer in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Will ...
Napoleon's Hundred Days (Archive Episode)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's astonishing return to power in France from exile on Elba in 1815 and how ...