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British television productions received a leading seven International Emmy nominations Monday, including best actor and actress nods for Jason Isaacs in "Case Histories" and newcomer Joanna Vanderham in "The Runaway."
British television productions received a leading seven International Emmy nominations Monday, including best actor and best actress nods for Jason Isaacs in "Case Histories" and newcomer Joanna Vanderham in "The Runaway," the Associated Press reports.
"Started Early, Took My Dog" (Little, Brown), by Kate Atkinson: "For want of a nail the shoe was lost," an old adage about the unanticipated consequences of minor events, has been a major theme in all four of Kate Atkinson's crime novels featuring a brooding ex-cop named Jackson Brodie. In "Started Early, Took My Dog," the author states the theme explicitly, opening the book by quoting the adage in full, then spends the rest of the novel expounding on it.
