Culture

Culture




Roald Dahl remembered

September 27 - October 4, 2006
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Born to Norwegian parents in 1916 in Wales, Roald Dahl had the audacity to ignore conventional literary styles adopted by established children’s authors of his era.





One-Minute Wonders

September 27 - October 4, 2006
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Dr Brown, Professor of Astronomy at the Arabian University, telephoned his counterpart at the Gulf University. “See anything unusual last night?” he asked.





The call girl that went global

September 27 - October 4, 2006
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As advice to budding authors goes, getting a job in a high-class brothel is unusual, to say the least.





Family of memoir author denouces book as ‘fiction’

September 27 - October 4, 2006
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The family of a bestselling author whose vivid memoir claims to document a “hell” of sexual abuse inside a Catholic institution for fallen women denounced the book as a work of fiction. At a Press conference, seven of Kathy O’Beirne’s brothers and sisters read out statements rebutting allegations against their father, who was accused in the book of beating and abusing his daughter.





Review

September 27 - October 4, 2006
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War Trashy
Ha Jin
Vintage; 368pp