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Jun 21, 2024 · Bernard MacLaverty’s career is long and distinguished. His recent collection Blank Pages shows that in his early 80s his standards are as high as ever. Story after story compels you to relish it through to its natural ending, and then to start the next. ‘The Miraculous Candidate’ is almost 50 years old, and I read it out…
Jun 16, 2024 · It led to my first commission at the company – a “5.15” opera - where I was paired with one of my literary heroes and subsequent best pals, Bernard MacLaverty.
Jun 20, 2024 · It led to my first commission at the company – a “5.15” opera - where I was paired with one of my literary heroes and subsequent best pals, Bernard MacLaverty. Since then, I’ve had some amazing projects and collaborations there – like Elephant Angel, again with Bernard MacLaverty in 2012, Rubble, with Johnny
Jun 14, 2024 · Cardiff Literature Festival 1987: Bernard MacLaverty Date(s) 1986, August 27-1987, May 18 (Creation) Level of description. File. Extent and medium. 0.25 ...
Jun 23, 2024 · Non-fiction – paperback; Black Inc; 272 pages; 2021. When he was 17 years old and in his final year at high school, Lech Blaine walked away from a horrific car crash that killed three of his best friends and left two in life-threatening comas.
23 hours ago · Hisham Matar wins The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Congratulations to Hisham Matar for winning this year’s Orwell Prize for Political Fiction for his novel My Friends (Viking) My Friends by Matar—chosen from a shortlist of eight novels—explores the fallout of the 1984 shootings at the Libyan embassy in London, and its effect on ...
Jun 7, 2024 · Tinged with melancholy but rooted in resiliency, the exquisite stories of Bernard MacLaverty’s Blank Pages display the perseverance of the human spirit. In “A Love Picture,” a middle-aged woman, already no stranger to loss, consults a World War II newsreel to determine the fate of her son.
