Gary Younge interview: ‘My mum was a single parent with three kids and therefore we were supposed to be into drugs’ ] Searing short stories... Puntí is unafraid to explore the uncomfortable rifts of his characters’ lives, particularly the lies they tell themselves to embolden or confront their justifications of their situations.” — Booklist Toni Forajido doesn’t say a word but raises his open left hand, waggling it as if waving. In that light he’s just got time to notice that there’s a finger missing, the middle one.

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Corvus Atlantic’s commercial fiction list which includes women’s, historical, romance, sci-fi, crime and thriller. A man recalls a past love as he strolls through the lonely streets of Barcelona. A hitchhiker on the outskirts of the city of Vic carries his secrets in a briefcase. In northern Catalonia, a villager receives letters from a long-estranged brother and grapples with how to respond. Then there's the man who wants to surprise his wife with a trip to Paris, only to swap it for a solitary cruise. I seem to remember an excellent review of this single by Tony Parsons. The gist of the review was that the song was both good and bad in that it clearly showed how Bowie had been great in a way that few other people in pop music ever had been. (could be a false memory) Scottish Business Digest Serica could revive North Sea’s Kyle oil field: 5 need-to-know business stories A great song truly haunting and the delivery perfects his mannered style taking it to new peaks. It sens a shiver down the spine during the NOOO , I remember at the time it displayed a glimmer of hope that he still had something ….never understood the lyric and must confess never seen the film thought I shook the directors hand when he came to my town to make yanks.MyHome.ie (Opens in new window) • Top 1000 • The Gloss (Opens in new window) • Recruit Ireland (Opens in new window) • Irish Times Training (Opens in new window) Puntí is clever without ever being saccharine, literary in choice of phrase without ever being obtuse—always a joy to read.” — New York Journal of Books Agreed … I don’t think either of them would have consciously copied the other, it was more a matter of inspiration — one hearing the other’s stuff and saying, hm, that sounds pretty good, maybe I should try some urban sophisticate-contemporary stuff. You mainly write on identity politics and religion, what advice would you give to anyone looking to write on these topics?

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Nicola Sturgeon has insisted she has “nothing to hide” but repeatedly refused to say whether she deleted messages sought by the UK Covid inquiry. The former first minister was challenged over reports that she destroyed communications that have been requested by the investigation. The Scottish... Nicola Sturgeon has insisted she has “nothing to hide” but repeatedly refused to say whether she deleted messages sought by the UK Covid inquiry. The former first minister was challenged over reports that she destroyed communications that have been requested by the investigation. The Scottish... Nicola Sturgeon has insisted she has “nothing to hide” but repeatedly refused to say whether she deleted messages sought by the...Sometimes the invisible word was related with the street they’d started out from, or they used the game to comment on everyday matters with monosyllabic shopping-list words—“juice,” “bread,” “milk”—but there were also days when they didn’t feel like saying anything or were in a bad mood, and then they walked separately, wherever they wanted, randomly filling the city with unintelligible scribbles. Jordi Puntí is not only Catalonia's most important writer, but he is also one of the funniest, most perceptive writers in all of Europe. This Is Not America is a tour-de-force story collection set on both sides of the Atlantic." -- Gary Shteyngart