The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Did she do it with George Clooney? Sorry, but I just can't get that question out of my head, even as Mariella Frostrup demolishes an acclaimed work of literature in her famously husky voice. "The stuff in italics is dreadful tosh," she says of The Life of Pi. "I don't know how people read it. I started skipping."
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
... novels, that we say: “Enough! I can’t - I won’t - read the winner of the Orange prize, whatever Mariella Frostrup says.” But not, unfortunately, before we have bought a copy of said book and put it on our groaning in-pile. Spending on books in Britain was £4.4bn last year, a rise of 4.5% on 2006, which industry watchers suggest is probably a faster increase than anywhere else in Europe....
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... the shortlist — there were two Booker Prize winners in 1974 and 1992 — were writer and broadcaster Mariella Frostrup, and John Mullan, professor of English at University College London. Frostrup, who read Midnight’s Children in the mid-1980s, said she was “delighted” with the shortlist. “Midnight’s Children is a pioneering book,” she told The Telegraph. Milan, who lives in...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... comprised of biographer, novelist and critic Victoria Glendinning (Chair), writer and broadcaster Mariella Frostrup, and John Mullan, Professor of English at University College, London.And after some 7,800 literature lovers voted - 37 per cent of whom were from the UK, with more than one in four voters from the US - Midnight's Children headed the field."The readers have spoken - in...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... panel of judges - the biographer, novelist and critic Victoria Glendinning; writer and broadcaster Mariella Frostrup, and John Mullan, professor of English at University College London.As well as securing a welcome boost for Rushdie and the other shortlisted authors, John Mullan argued that the honour was a different kind of accolade to the annual award because of its longer view."The...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... of judges comprising biographer, novelist and critic Victoria Glendinning, writer and broadcaster Mariella Frostrup, and John Mullan, Professor of English at University College London.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... panel of judges - the biographer, novelist and critic Victoria Glendinning; writer and broadcaster Mariella Frostrup, and John Mullan, professor of English at University College London.As well as securing a welcome boost for Rushdie and the other shortlisted authors, John Mullan argued that the honour was a different kind of accolade to the annual award because of its longer view."The...
Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Have you seen or heard the current advertising campaign by BSkyB to promote the Sky+ personal video recorder? It includes TV ads that feature celebrities including Michael Parkinson, David Gower, Felicity Kendal, Ross Kemp and Mariella Frostrup talking about the benefits of Sky+. I have also seen poster adverts that include simple quotes from the same celebrities highlighting how beneficial...
Diary of a Girl Geek (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
I still don't have my voice back. This is incredibly annoying. I have been told I sound like: * Mariella Frostrup * Tom Waits * A thirteen-year-old boy (due to the fact my voice can now jump three octaves mid-syllable) * I've been smoking 50 a day since the age of six. I think I'll settle for sounding like Mariella. Everyone seems to find it hilarious though. To the point where...
dovegreyreader scribbles (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
... it. So having got all that off my chest and having decided that I wasn't going to be a wimp like Mariella Frostrup and cry I made a start. Actually I did shed a little tear, so might you, there's one line that did for me and if you want an emotional crime-laden page-turner look no further. It's not just crime , it's people's lives under the microcope too and I've had two very late...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
... "girls night out" held for Sarah Brown where Lette was among the guests, who also included Mariella Frostrup. "He (Gordon) said: 'I'll be your wine waiter for the evening,' because it was a girls' only gathering and he put his tea towel over his arm," says Lette. "I said 'you know it's traditional we always pinch the behind of the wine waiter'. Now, any other red-blooded man would...
