Visit a Park. Most diverse Booker prize shortlist ever as Hilary Mantel misses out. Hilary Mantel will not win a third Booker prize with the final novel in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, after American writers made a near clean sweep of this year’s shortlist.
With four writers of colour among its six authors, the shortlist, announced on Tuesday, is the most diverse line-up in the prize’s history. Four debut novelists – Diane Cook, Avni Doshi, Douglas Stuart and Brandon Taylor – are up against the acclaimed Zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangarembga, and the Ethiopian-American Maaza Mengiste for the £50,000 award. It’s important to say this is not a step towards a paywall We need more readers to register with us to help sustain our independent, quality journalism. Without you taking this simple step, we miss out on revenues from personalised advertising - a critical source of funding for our future.
Through doing so, you'll help ensure that our reporting remains freely available to everyone, and if we recognise you when you come back, we can improve your news experience too. Dublin Theatre Festival. WM English. Lough and loads of charm: waterfront Georgian house for €1.7m in Wicklow. The Broadlough is an oasis of watery calm just off a busy stretch of the M11 motorway between Rathnew village and Wicklow town.
Despite the name, this inlet of the Irish Sea – a tidal lake and estuary of the River Vartry – is elongated and narrow and surrounded by a verdant, lush landscape teeming with birdlife. Close to the water’s edge lies Broadlough House – an elegantly modernised Georgian residence on 72 acres – for sale, by private treaty, through Savills for €1.7 million. Like many Irish country houses, its history is colourful and unexpected. As recently as the early 1950s, the house was used as a boarding ‘prep’ school – to prepare boys for the “Common Entrance’ exam to England’s public schools. Its principal was the fabulously titled Baron Metzradt-Uist and its chief patron was Arthur Barton, Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin. But the school was short-lived. Creature comfortsAnn’s influence is palpable. Upstairs, all four bedrooms are en suite. Ticketmaster.
The 100 best books of the 21st century. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (2006) Perhaps better known for her screenwriting (Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, Heartburn), Ephron’s brand of smart theatrical humour is on best display in her essays.
Confiding and self-deprecating, she has a way of always managing to sound like your best friend – even when writing about her apartment on New York’s Upper West Side. This wildly enjoyable collection includes her droll observations about ageing, vanity – and a scorching appraisal of Bill Clinton.Read the review Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou (2005), translated by Helen Stevenson (2009) The Congolese writer says he was “trying to break the French language” with Broken Glass – a black comedy told by a disgraced teacher without much in the way of full stops or paragraph breaks.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2005), translated by Steven T Murray (2008) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling (2000) A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (2015) Chronicles: Volume One. Seven Wonders of Ireland: The ultimate Irish bucket list revealed. And boy, did you deliver.
The ancient Seven Wonders of the World were the original travel guide, ranging from the Great Pyramid of Giza (the only one still standing) to the Colossus of Rhodes. In recent times, we've seen new Seven Wonders lists highlight everything from cities and industry to iconic sites like Machu Picchu and the Taj Mahal.
Today (below), we reveal Ireland's Seven Wonders, as our readers see them, right here and now. The nominations process was wide open. Readers could suggest anything from natural wonders to festivals, adventures, meals and drinks. Over 700 different experiences were suggested, highlighting the breathtaking diversity of this island. Of course, this being Ireland, there were random entries too... on our nominations page, on Twitter and Facebook (#Irelands7Wonders). This is a distinctly Irish list, after all. 1. 'The calling card for Ireland's west coast...' It seems like there's only one word to describe the Cliffs of Moher - breathtaking.
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