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A R E A D I N G b y J E N N I F E R J O H N S T O N |
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Jennifer Johnston is accepted as one of the finest Irish writers and has an international reputation. Her early books include The Captain and the Kings, The Gates, Shadows on Our Skin (which was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1977), and The Old Jest (winner of the 1979 Whitbread Award for Fiction). This was followed up by The Christmas Tree, The Railway Station Man, Fool's Sanctuary, The Invisible Worm , Two Moons, This is not a Novel (short-listed for the 2003 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award). Her latest novel, Grace & Truth, has also been short-listed for this year’s Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. |
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Thursday, June 1 2006 |
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