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| | | | | | | | | | | Sport Update | | | | Interview: Sandy Lyle, the Scots Shropshire lad who conquered Augusta | Fire away, he says. Itâs just after 8am US time and Sandy Lyle is on Skype.â¨His wife, Jolande, has overcome our technical difficulties from the previous afternoon and not only am I ready to chat with the two-time major winner but there he is in front of me on my laptop screen. Heâs wearing a T-shirt that is almost Mastersâ¨green, which seems appropriate. |
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| | And finally... | | | Book review: Of Men and Angels by Michael Arditti | Michael Arditti is a novelist who has grown more ambitious, and at the same time become more accomplished. He is a rarity among contemporary novelists, being one who takes religious faith and its contradictions seriously. His characters are regularly torn between the desire for sexual fulfilment and the laws of God as interpreted by churches. Philip Pullman describes him as being a âchronicler of the rewards and pitfalls of present day faith,â and this is a fair judgement, though in this new long novel religious faith and obedience are examined over the centuries, in five distinct episodes (each introduced by the Archangel Gabriel) that extend from the Jewsâ exile in Babylon to Hollywood at the tail-end of the second millennium since the birth of Christ. |
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