5 things about this week (8 june 2019)

I find him a frustrating author. He writes about subjects that really interest me (I loved the BBC adaptation of The Rotters’ Club, which this is a sort-of sequel to). ... Partly, it’s genuinely interesting to see an author attempt a contemporary Brexit novel. ..

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father thomas white: ‘we need to renew the priesthood’

And he thinks the state could never replace the Church, that the highest religious and transcendent aim of human existence is denoted by divine Revelation. ... I helped start a band called The Hillbilly Thomists, which takes its name from a comment that the American author Flannery..

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women at war: backstage heroines in d-day’s 75th anniversary

., to the front to fight,” said Sarah Byrn Rickman, author of “The Originals,” about the women fliers. ... Associated Press writer Raf Casert contributed from Blay, Normandy. . ___ . ..

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