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  • Marina Thwaite is a beautiful “It” girl who by virtue of her looks and connections has been given a contract for a book she’s not sure she can write.

    The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud: Questions 2006

  • Q: Murray Thwaite is reminiscent of a few journalistic bigwigs… was there anyone in particular you wanted him to bring to mind?

    Claire Messud discusses The Emperor's Children 2010

  • If you’ve read this far, doesn’t that tell you something about whether Thwaite is on the right track?

    2009 February 19 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • Thwaite is one of Philip Larkin’s literary executors.

    2006 December 03 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006

  • Many poems in Thwaite’s book are witty, none more so than “The Art of Poetry: Two Lessons,” which tweaks the rules for writing poetry handed down by teachers.

    2006 December 03 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006

  • To all outcast and hungry things the Thwaite is a veritable Bethlehem, or House of Bread, and to her, their sweet

    Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston John Ruskin 1859

  • I for one always ensure that my name is correctly pronounced as "Thwaite" to avoid depleting vital stocks - one wouldn't want, for instance, an RCT driver to run out of expletives to use against traffic during an essential supply run or an infantry Corporal to run out of vital descriptive terms in the middle of a skirmish with the Boche.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • I for one always ensure that my name is correctly pronounced as "Thwaite" to avoid depleting vital stocks - one wouldn't want, for instance, an RCT driver to run out of expletives to use against traffic during an essential supply run or an infantry Corporal to run out of vital descriptive terms in the middle of a skirmish with the Boche.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • I for one always ensure that my name is correctly pronounced as "Thwaite" to avoid depleting vital stocks - one wouldn't want, for instance, an RCT driver to run out of expletives to use against traffic during an essential supply run or an infantry Corporal to run out of vital descriptive terms in the middle of a skirmish with the Boche.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • I for one always ensure that my name is correctly pronounced as "Thwaite" to avoid depleting vital stocks - one wouldn't want, for instance, an RCT driver to run out of expletives to use against traffic during an essential supply run or an infantry Corporal to run out of vital descriptive terms in the middle of a skirmish with the Boche.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

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