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Graham Swift is a spellbinding storyteller whose primary concerns, in his novels, are the experience of loss and the ways in which human beings try to come to terms with loss. Real and symbolic bereavements haunt his work: the death or estrangement of a...

ONCE upon a time the English novel was ambitious. In the great era of Dickens, Thackeray and George Eliot, novelists took it upon themselves to invent whole worlds and to people these worlds with busy and credible characters. Now too often the story...

The jury is still out on the impact of the smoking ban on pub operators, says Nathalie Olof-Ors Nathalie Olof-Ors The pub sector, which has risen constantly since 2003, has taken a serious blow over the past month, dropping 8.4 per cent....

Shannon Stewart and the Oakland Athletics agreed to a $1 million, one-year contract Thursday, giving the club the additional backup outfielder it sought before the start of spring training.Stewart can earn an additional $1.5 million in performance bonuses. He will join recently re-signed Bobby Kielty...

A self-described pedophile was released from jail after prosecutors dropped a criminal case accusing him of violating a judge's order prohibiting him from being within 30 feet of children anywhere in California for three years.Prosecutors could not pursue the case against Jack McClellan, 45, after...