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Peru in Paddington: a colonial backdrop for a British adventure
Both Banderas and Tous are Spanish, while Colman is British. Aunt Lucy’s retirement home, previously located in Lima, is now in a jungle, isolating her from any modern, urban representation of Peru.
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5 Postcolonial novels: Voices from the Bengal Province
Like most other parts of the world, the Bengal province has had a long tradition of being colonised. Her 200-year-long ...
Streeting vows to protect Britons getting cheap Brazilian butt lifts and tummy tucks abroad
Health secretary wants to improve safety for those going to Turkey and elsewhere for cosmetic procedures after several deaths ...
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British author says space inspired Booker Prize-winning novel
A lifelong fascination with outer space inspired British author Samantha Harvey to write her novel "Orbital", which this week ...
What the BBC should do with Gary Lineker’s salary
The departure of Gary Lineker from Match of the Day has got me thinking about money. The former England striker was, as we ...
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Two authors kick off college’s Plains Writer Series
Marcellus is a professor of English at Wayne State. She earned her master of fine arts degree in creative writing from ...
Booker Prize-winner Samantha Harvey: ‘It can be hard to write from a white British perspective’
Before Tuesday night, the author Samantha Harvey had got used to thinking of herself as a bit of an underdog. “It’s not out ...
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A British ‘culture warrior’? Kemi Badenoch sets Conservatives on populist path.
After a record defeat in Britain’s last election, many Conservatives decided that they needed to be more populist. Their ...
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The Meaning of the First World War
World War I gave rise to a heated century-long debate about its causes. In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson surveys this ...
British writer Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize for fiction with space-station novel 'Orbital'
British author Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for her novel "Orbital," which focuses on six astronauts aboard the ...
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China in Transition: Witnessing the Mao Era’s End with Andy Kirkpatrick
CHINA-UNDERGROUND. Matteo Damiani is an Italian sinologist, photographer, author and motion designer. Matteo lived and worked for ten years in China. Founder of CinaOggi.it and China-underground.com.