Flynn went to journalism school with the aim of becoming a crime reporter but applied to Entertainment Weekly to be a television critic after realising she was “too unassertive” to succeed on the crime beat. After writing for 10 years she was made redundant.
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The British novelist Hilary Mantel, one of the darlings of historical fiction, is in the running for a second Booker Prize, for the follow up to the novel that won her the first award. The 12-strong longlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction included “Bring up the Bodies”.
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