Booker number two?

Lloyd JonesMister Pip has made the Man Booker Prize longlist, alongside works by Ian McEwan and A N Wilson. The 13 titles were selected from over 100 international entries. “As for the eventual winner, the smart money will, inevitably, fly to McEwan’s On Chesil Beach,” writes Guardian critic DJ Taylor. “I shall be backing the New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones’s Mr Pip, a devastating projection of Great Expectations set on a war-torn Pacific island.” Keri Hulme is the first and only NZ author to win the prestigious prize, for The Bone People in 1985. The shortlist will be announced September 6.


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Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Cancelled after two season, Taika Waititi’s “silly comedy” Our Flag Means Death “deserves one more voyage”, according to Radio Times critic George White. “ was meant to be sacred…