![]() ![]() She was born Geraldine McKeown on in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England, to Donald and Norah (née Burns) McKeown. She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the 1990 television serial Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and from 2004 to 2009, she starred as the Agatha Christie sleuth Miss Marple, in the ITV series Marple. She was also nominated for the 1998 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Chairs. McEwan was a five-time Olivier Award nominee, and twice won the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress for The Rivals (1983) and The Way of the World (1995). Michael Coveney described her, in a tribute article, as "a great comic stylist, with a syrupy, seductive voice and a forthright, sparkling manner". ![]() Geraldine McEwan (born Geraldine McKeown – 30 January 2015) was an English actress, who had a long career in film, theatre and television. ![]()
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![]() The down-on-her-luck single mom wants a complete do-over-is that too much to ask? With her family long gone from River Bend, strong, independent Mel is as surprised as anyone to end up in the quaint small town she once called home. Voted Most Likely to Succeed, Melanie Bartlett ended up anything but. When the famous couple decides to visit the whole Gardner clan, Karen must keep Michael’s secret under wraps in front of his questioning relatives…including Zach, the man who could be the real love of her life. But sparks fly the moment he and Karen see each other. ![]() Zach Gardner: Dark-haired, blue-eyed hunk Zach crashes Michael and Karen’s fancy one-year anniversary party, determined to meet the wife his brother hid from their family. However, as she prepares to exit her fake marriage gracefully, her drop-dead-gorgeous brother-in-law walks through the door…and into her heart. Now, her divorce sits just around the corner, along with a five million dollar payout. A year ago, she agreed to wed a famous actor to diffuse rumors about his personal life. Karen Jones: The petite blonde married a Hollywood star, yet she’s the one who spends every day playing a part: the part of a happy wife. ![]() ![]() ![]() **She enjoyed her fake marriage…until she fell in love with her brother-in-law.**Ĭatherine Bybee serves up excitement and dizzying romance in *Single by Saturday*, the sequel to *Fiancé by Friday* and the latest entry in her bestselling **Weekday Brides** series. ![]() ![]() Nowhere in Christian’s plans had he ever prepared for Gianna. ![]() She hates him - his stone-cold demeanor, his arrogance and too-perceptive eye - but, over the years, even as their games consist of insulting each other’s looks and intelligence, she begins to live to play with him. One winter night and their lives intertwine. But, perhaps, one should never say never. With a proclivity for order and the number three, he’s never been tempted to veer off course. Christian Allister has always followed the life plan he’d envisioned in his youth, beneath the harsh lights of a frigid, damp cell. In the New York underworld, others know him as a hustler, a killer his nature as cold as the heart of ice in his chest. Most see a paragon of morality a special agent upholding the law. Nobody can crack Gianna’s facade.no one anyway, until he comes along. Little do most know it’s just a sparkly disguise, there to hide one panic attack at a time. ![]() She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most sayings in the book. ![]() Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve never met Peter Somerville-Large but believe he’s from Cork and is a relative of that lady Somerville who (alongside Ross) once wrote the Irish RM books. If you can source a copy, in a second hand bookshop perhaps, be sure to pounce! With this in mind, my own battered and much-thumbed copy is a treasured possession. ![]() ![]() Worse though, the book is also frustratingly (and inexplicably) sometimes out of print. Be warned, there are very few illustrations. There is more information on how to do that below, and how to make the right choice.Īnyway, this is a post (a book list effectively) I’ve been meaning (and promising various people) to write up and post for well over a year now! So here at last it is …ġ- For a terrifically erudite but highly readable general introduction to the city, its history, politics, trade and economy, its buildings, social, literary and cultural life and its material objects, the book I continually refer back to isĭublin: the Fair City, by Peter Somerville-Largeįor years this has been my favourite book on the capital. This answer comes with one caveat, the book you choose depends on which aspect of Dublin interests you most. I’m flattered to be asked, and usually recommend the same books I use myself. People, with their curiosity piqued or revived, naturally want to learn more. Often after giving a talk or a tour, guests ask me to recommend a good reference book or two on Dublin. Four best books on Dublin, for your Christmas list. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "At first I was bemused by how Suzuki's work could have remained unavailable in English till now, but once I read her stories that turned to wonderment this is a unique collection of fiction from a singularly fascinating writer," he said. In a statement received by Newsweek, Verso fiction editor Cian McCourt said that given the late author's legacy, it was surprising that it's taken so long for her books to be translated and published in English. Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi and Helen O'Horan are the translators for the upcoming releases. Another volume titled Love < Death will follow in 2022. The short story collection, dubbed Terminal Boredom, will be released on April 20 from Verso Books. ![]() Verso Books will be publishing Japanese sci-fi author Izumi Suzuki's work in English for the first time in 2021. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pieces of Jeanette’s family’s story also came to me in different ways, like once, on a trip to Cuba, when I visited a museum exhibit that featured letters from the author Victor Hugo to Cuban independence fighters and workers in the 19th century. ![]() And some of that writing developed into the thread of the novel that is about Gloria and Ana, a Salvadoran mother and daughter who are neighbors to Jeanette, a character whose family immigrated from Cuba in a very different manner. I started writing these little snippets, observations. I visited a couple of the family detention centers that were cropping up around the country, growing in size each day as deportations ramped up across the country. Some of it came to me years ago when I was working as an organizer primarily focused on deportation defense work. Different threads of Of Women and Salt came to me at different times. ![]() ![]() In The Chemist, our main character, currently known as “Alex” lives her life on the run from the government and her former employer, who keeps trying to kill her over information she knows. I’m a sucker for movies and stories like Jason Bourne, Snowden (okay, that one’s real, so very creepy), etc. ![]() ![]() The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer (yes, that one, no, this is nothing like Twilight), brings all the crazy government/spy/black-ops/surveillance themes and…I honestly love it. I am one of those people who copes with a world-wide pandemic, not by reading lots of romance and watching lovely fluffy rom-coms, but by reading dystopian-esque and thriller novels and watching movies like Zombieland and Contagion (the latter of which is seriously an amazing movie to understand the gravity of what’s happening – I’ve read about the research put into that film, and there is a reason it feels so reflective of reality).Īnyway, my latest book choice, while not dystopian, definitely isn’t fluffy, either. ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ll ask them about literature as a path to empathy, or as an experience of the other, or simply as a ticket out. About what it means to be a Palestinian author or a Muslim one, an Israeli author or a Jewish one. We’ll be talking about a writer’s consciousness in war, and a writer’s identity in a war-torn region. In the culmination of another shattering week of news, and of Open Source shows about Israeli approaches to the war, the optics of the conflict, and a generational history of the Muslim world, we’re talking to these two friends together. Keret is an Israeli, El-Youssef a Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon and now lives in London. They’re both writers - of novels, screenplays, short stories, essays, and comics. ![]() We first read about Etgar Keret and Samir El-Youssef in Lisa Goldman’s blog two weeks ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this episode of The Stream, we’ll look at how artificial intelligence is disrupting creative work and getting people to re-examine how we think about art. Yet others see AI as a powerful new medium that can be used for artistic expression. The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemys not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. For many digital artists, the technology represents a threat to their livelihoods. Users can then prompt the AI to create new artwork in the style of a specific artist. ![]() So where does the technology leave professional artists?Įarlier this year, a group of artists and illustrators filed a class action lawsuit that claims the generative AI tools Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and DreamUp violate US copyright law by repurposing artists’ work found on the open web.ĪI image generators are trained on datasets made up of billions of images collected online and generally without the artists’ knowledge or approval. Popular AI image generators are able to produce seemingly endless amounts of stunning visual art in just a matter of seconds. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The African Queens series takes a docu-drama hybrid approach and the criticism has been directed at James’ acting in the dramatic elements. Root added: “It’s not every day that academic discussion of ancient history makes the news.” “Race in her times was a long way from what it is now.” “We decided to depict Cleopatra of mixed heritage to reflect these theories and the multicultural nature of ancient Egypt,” she added. In a statement today, Root, a former Discovery President and BBC Controller, said academics have “long debated Cleopatra’s exact parentage,” while she quoted one expert who believes “there is a possibility that Cleopatra was part Egyptian.” ![]() "Freedom Of Expression" Will Be Priority For UK Streaming Regulation, Says Ofcom Boss ![]() |