JG Farrell in His Own Words Selected Letters and Diaries
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JG Farrell in His Own Words Selected Letters and Diaries
24.03.2010

JG Farrell in His Own Words Selected Letters and Diaries will be launched by Bobby Mc Donagh, Ambassador of Ireland, this evening (March 24th 2010) at the Irish Embassy in London.

On Thursday, March 25th, the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival will exclusively announce the Lost Man Booker Prize shortlist. JG Farrell's novel Troubles is on the longlist. Troubles which tells the comic yet melancholic tale of an English Major, Brendan Archer, who in 1919 goes to County Wicklow in Ireland to meet the woman whom he believes he may be engaged to marry. From the viewpoint of the crumbling Majestic Hotel at Kilnalough he watches Ireland's fight for independence from Britain.
 
The Lost Man Booker is a one-off prize to honour the books which missed out on the opportunity to win the Booker Prize in 1970. In 1971, just two years after it began, the Booker Prize ceased to be awarded retrospectively and became - as it is today - a prize for the best novel of the year of publication. As a result a wealth of fiction published for much of 1970 fell through the net.

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