News about Alan Garner

For the city's riotous annual Fancy Dress Party, rowdy British revelers have descended on Benidorm's so-called English quarter. The festival in Rincon de Loix's immediate neighborhood has been dubbed Europe's biggest costume party, and it is projected to attract as many as 40,000 people, a figure that is steadily recovering from pandemic-era lows. Now in its 33rd year, the 'bad taste' festival has become a hit with British visitors, who have been flocking to the Mediterranean city on Spain's east coast since the 1960s' package holiday explosion.

The insider has rated the forthcoming series as'republican fiction,' which is reported to have implied that Prince Philip was 'pursuing an affair' with Penny Knatchbull.' An acquaintance of the family, who has yet to watch the series air next month, told The Telegraph: "It is one thing for a script to be drivel, and another to be so cruel." I think they've shot themselves in the foot more than with this, but for the majority, it will simply pass them by.'

Pop royalty rarely meets real royalty on a daily basis, but it wasn't always that way at the 2022 Booker Prize for Fiction awards. Queen Consort Camilla was seen rubbing shoulders with no other than Dua Lipa on October 17 — and followers were sold. Lipa was caught on a black velvet Burberry dress with a plunging sweetheart neckline and mesh opera gloves, implying that she was "completely honored" to attend the function. Lipa is believed to have said "no singing tonight" while she did bust out "Happy Birthday" to shortlisted author Alan Garner. One fan tweeted, "I LOVE DUA LIPA!!!!!And here she is chatting it up with Camilla, LOVE THIS!!!!"while another commented that the meeting was "Too fun!!! "Italian" said the author.

Gaby Wood (pictured right) was announcing the shortlist for the Booker Award 2022 at Serpentine Pavilion in London on Tuesday, when she laughed about the members of a book club in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, when she referred to the occupations of the members of a book club. The video was posted on Twitter and has since been taken down, but not before people began accusing Ms Wood of'snobbery' for how she responded to working-class readers. Ms Wood told MailOnline that she regretted "the offence triggered by what was supposed to be a commemoration of reading." Ms Wood's reaction was 'patronizing' and'sickening,' according to one working-class writer.

This year's Booker Award shortlist only includes one British writer. Alan Garner (pictured right), the longest author ever shortlisted, will compete for the £50,000 draw with his book Treacle Walker. Perpett and Elizabeth Strout, Zimbabwean NoViolet Bulawayo, Shehan Karunatilaka of Sri Lanka, and Claire Keegan from Ireland are among the writers competing against Americans Perpetual Everett and Elizabeth Strout, Elizabeth Strout, Elizabeth Strout, and Claire Keegan from Ireland.