Big Girl Small Town with the best synopsis ever – “
Milkman meets Derry Girls. A cracking read’ – which is proudly emblazoned on the Irish version of the cover. Majella is one of those outliers – ignored by most people, and reasonably content to potter on with her life. She lives with her
alcoholic mother, works in the local chipper, and obsesses over the lives of Bobby, Sue Ellen, and Pam in her wall-to-wall Dallas reruns. She keeps herself to herself, has no friends and no boyfriend, and she thinks her life is the better for it. But when her grandmother dies and the will reveals a couple of surprises, Majella soon finds that she is the object of everyone’s curiosity. Initially, she hates the attention, but she soon realises that maybe she can change her life for the better. Reminiscent of Roddy Doyle’s dialogue-driven work, this is a really fantastic debut novel from an author we’ll definitely be watching out for.
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John le Carré was no lowbrow writer – he changed the course of English literature
Genre fiction was once disparaged as stuff to read idly on the train. Today’s most innovative fiction owes the late novelist a great deal
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Here’s how John le Carré introduces his most famous creation, George Smiley, in the first chapter of his first novel, Call For The Dead:
When Lady Ann Sercomb married George Smiley towards the end of the war she described him to her astonished Mayfair friends as breathtakingly ordinary. When she left him two years later in favour of a Cuban motor-racing driver, she announced enigmatically that if she hadn’t left him then, she never could have done; and Viscount Sawley made a special journey to his club to observe that the cat was out of the bag.
France, which has close links with its former colonies in west Africa, Ms
Touraine said the country’s health service was prepared to tackle the
threat.
Frontières warned of an “epidemic out of control”, Ms Touraine told the
newspaper Le Parisien there was little risk of it spreading to France.
“At the moment, the risk of the virus coming to Europe or to France is low,”
Ms Touraine insisted. “We are taking steps so that our country won’t be
affected.”
“prevention”.
know how to diagnose and deal with any patient suffering from fever who has
just returned from one of the countries affected by the epidemic,” she said.