Booker
Chinese whispers
River of Smoke begins with the storm that struck the convict ship the Ibis at the end of Amitav Ghosh’s 2008 Man Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies.
A quest for identity
If it had been possible to listen to Howard Jacobson’s brilliant Booker Prize-short- listed novel in one sitting I would happily have done so; but even on motorways congested to the point of strangulation, a return journey from Chipping Norton to Brighton has yet to take 13 hours.
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‘Voting for it? I’ve been campaigning for it.’
‘The image of the child in the manger
in the stable has gone viral.’
‘I think we might ease up on Barry’s steroids, Mrs Stephens.’
‘Let’s get the festivities started — by going round the
table revealing which way we voted.’
‘The sixpence is subject to a windfall tax.’
