AL Kennedy

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Will You Care If I Die? review – from furious outsider to a source of salvation
Campaigner Nicolas Lunabba writes movingly about his troubled childhood and difficult work in a book addressed to an unruly teen who changed his life

AL Kennedy

05, Feb, 2024 @7:00 AM

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Sex toys, selfishness and why we won’t settle: life as a single woman, across the generations
Uncoupled doesn’t have to mean incomplete. Eight writers - from their 20s to 90s - celebrate single life as a destination of its own

Annie Lord, Hephzibah Anderson, Sangeeta Pillai, AL Kennedy, Joan Bakewell, Patrice Lawrence, VG Lee

25, Nov, 2023 @7:00 AM

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A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories by Terry Pratchett review – a fantasist’s formative years
The Discworld creator’s short tales from the 70s and 80s reveal a young talent bursting with invention and wit

AL Kennedy

17, Oct, 2023 @8:00 AM

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Struggling with nouns? Robert Jenrick can help | AL Kennedy
The immigration minister has allowed me to see things more clearly after a bout of post-Covid brain fog

AL Kennedy

09, Apr, 2023 @9:00 AM

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‘Brexit changed everything’: revisiting the case for Scottish independence
Seven years after the referendum, writers including Val McDermid and William Boyd capture the mood of their country, and ask what it would mean to leave the UK

Val McDermid, William Boyd, Andrés Nicolás Ordorica, John Burnside, Janey Godley, Kathleen Jamie, Jaimini Jethwa, AL Kennedy and Hannah Lavery

03, Jul, 2021 @8:00 AM

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As a sci-fi fan, I'd like to say: this Covid stuff is too far-fetched
The number of ludicrous thought experiments being conducted on us is truly unbelievable

AL Kennedy

24, May, 2020 @9:00 AM

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AL Kennedy on Dundee: ‘It was ignored or laughed at in the rest of Scotland’
The novelist and standup comedian on buildings burning down, police corruption and basking seals in the Tay estuary

AL Kennedy

03, Mar, 2018 @10:00 AM

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'Where do I think best? In bed' – authors reveal their dream retreats
A hotel on the Moray Firth estuary; an adrenaline-filled auction room in west London; an ad man’s office in Manhattan on DVD … AL Kennedy, William Boyd and others celebrate their cultural hideouts

William Boyd, AL Kennedy, Nicola Barker, Joan Bakewell and Daljit Nagra

29, Dec, 2017 @12:00 PM

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Anthony Burgess at 100: high art, low entertainment
AL Kennedy celebrates a craftsman who viewed his work as a lifelong apprenticeship

AL Kennedy

25, Feb, 2017 @9:00 AM

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Whose life is it anyway? Novelists have their say on cultural appropriation
Jonathan Franzen claimed he won’t write about race because of limited ‘firsthand experience’, while Lionel Shriver hopes objection to ‘cultural appropriation is a passing fad’. So should there be boundaries on what a novelist can write about?

Hari Kunzru, Kamila Shamsie, Aminatta Forna, AL Kennedy, Philip Hensher and others

01, Oct, 2016 @7:00 AM

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What to do when the book police arrive: read on | AL Kennedy
The detention of a woman reading a book about Syria shows the power of writing. Our ability to thrive together is limited only by our imagination

AL Kennedy

07, Aug, 2016 @5:05 PM

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I’m ready to dump broken Britain. Care to join me? | AL Kennedy
Now we know the depths to which we have sunk, things can’t get much worse

AL Kennedy

31, Jul, 2016 @9:00 AM

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