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A tribute to Oliver Emanuel

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Oliver Emanuel ’s tender and tense psychological thriller about love, loss and the mirror-verse A CLOSE APPROXIMATION OF YOU will be airing on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow at 3pm. Oliver very tragically died on 19 th December 2023 at the age of 43, and A CLOSE APPROXIMATION OF YOU...

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02/02/2024 - 12:54
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Canongate triumphs in five-way auction for Jordan Stephens' 'game-changing' memoir

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'Canongate has triumphed in a five-way auction for a “game-changing” memoir on ADHD and masculinity from writer and one half of the chart-topping duo Rizzle Kicks, Jordan Stephens.

Publisher-at-large Francis Bickmore acquired world English language rights to Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs from Zoe Ross of United Agents. Canongate...

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02/02/2024 - 11:06
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2024 Pat Kavanagh Prize Shortlist Revealed

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United Agents have partnered with the Goldsmiths Department of English and Creative Writing, for the fifteenth year running, to recognise the excellence of the students on the Goldsmiths MA in creative and life writing programme. The Pat Kavanagh Prize commemorates literary agent Pat Kavanagh, one of the founding members of...

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01/31/2024 - 14:36
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OTHELLO opens at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

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Following her critically acclaimed take on Romeo and Juliet in 2021, Ola Ince directs Othello, which opens at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse from 30th January.

Ince's adaptation takes Shakespeare's tragedy and its themes of racism, jealousy and manipulation and applies a modern lens- revealing the parallels that still exist...

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01/30/2024 - 12:14
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