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Tuesday 02 February 2010

Stanley Middleton celebration

David Belbin (thanks Dave!) tells me:


On May 8th 2010, the University of Nottingham will host a celebration of the life of one of its most widely respected alumni, the novelist Stanley Middleton. The Booker Prize winning author died in July 2009, a week short of his 90th birthday. The celebration will include live music, readings from Stanley’s novels, poems and unpublished letters, together with short talks on his life and work (more...)

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Thursday 04 February 2010

Lisa Hill says...

Good-oh! I have had Middleton's Booker Prize winning Holiday on Mt TBR for a while, and this might move it higher up the pile.
Lisa Hill, ANZ LitLovers http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com

Sunday 25 July 2010

Dave Lull says...

Allan Massie's review of Stanley Middleton's 45th novel can be found here:

http://living.scotsman.com/features/Book-review-A-Cautious-Approach.6437196.jp

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