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18/11/2008 |
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007, Italian Style |
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There was not just 007 and there was not just Sean Connery. At one point, European screens in general and Italian screens in particular were full of secret agents with the most absurd code names: 077, 008, 009, 070, Z7, 77, 777, 3S3 and so forth. An ... |
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18/11/2008 |
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Alicia Giménez-Bartlett: Biography |
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After numerous Anglo-Saxon writers (including John le Carré, John Grisham, Elmore Leonard and George Pelecanos) and only female star (P.D. James), our prestigious literary career award to a master of the genre goes this year to a European writer of ... |
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18/11/2008 |
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The Authors at Courmayeur |
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Sharon J. Bolton was born and raised in Lancashire. Trained as an actress, musician and dancer, she performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She spent her early career in marketing and PR before obtaining an MBA at Warwick ... |
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16/11/2008 |
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Women in Noir |
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We women are incorrigible, I thought. In the end, we inevitably fall into the most antiquated clichés: we fall incurably in love with handsome married men we cannot have. Damn, we freed ourselves from masculine domination but hadn’t taken a ... |
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23/09/2008 |
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A Long Goodbye |
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It was, as usual, our precious friend Roberto Santachiara who suggested to us that year – 1997 – that no one deserved the Chandler Prize more than James Crumley. And he was – obviously – right. Therefore, thanks to Stefano Magagnoli and ... |
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