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ZADIE SMITH. Smith, a Radcliffe Institute fellow whose debut novel White Teeth earned her the Whitbread First Novel Award and comparisons to Salman Rushdie, will discuss the morality of the novel. The talk is sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute. Monday, April 14 at 4 p.m. Free. Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe Yard, 10 Garden...
...AWARDED. CLAIRE TOMALIN, 69, British biographer, the 2002 Whitbread book-of-the-year award and its purse of $48,000, for Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, a portrait of the 17th-century patrician playboy and diarist; in London. Tomalin beat her husband, novelist and playwright Michael Frayn, who won the best-novel prize for his thriller Spies...
...elegantly blends fact and fiction in a reimagining of the events surrounding the spectacular 1922 London trial of Edith Thompson and her lover, Frederick Bywaters, who were convicted and hanged for murdering Edith?s husband, Percy...Gripping, surprising and beautiful. FORECAST: This title was a finalist for the Whitbread Prize; a film (?Another Life?) based on the same incidents premiered in the U.K. and is scheduled for U.S. release this year. Though set 80 years ago in England, the novel should draw a contemporary American audience given the controversy that continues to surround the issue of capital punishment...
...quick screen break you might well find that you're actually broadcast live on the Web as you sip your illicit pint. Now suspicious spouses have an easy way to verify the age-old "working late" excuse: just log on to www.viewpub.com. British leisure giant Whitbread has teamed up with Web design firm Viewpub to install webcams in six of its London establishments. They show live pictures on the Web from 6 p.m. until closing time every night. If the site proves popular the regulars in over 1,000 Whitbread pubs throughout the U.K. could soon be online. Far from...
AWARDED. To MATTHEW KNEALE, 40, British novelist, the coveted Whitbread Book of the Year award for his tragicomedy, English Passengers; in London. The epic novel interweaves the voyage of a group of bigoted 19th century Englishmen searching for the Garden of Eden and the genocide of Tasmanian Aboriginals. Kneale won the $33,000 prize by the narrowest margin ever, on the chairman's vote...