Oh, What a Lovely Century aromantic main character Andrew McMillan and Emma Watson

Andrew McMillan and Emma Watson

Alexander Chee

Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception fifty years earlier - a revolutionary landmark for Britain

and every face seen fleetingly in the crowd carries a story or two

including impresario Larry Parnes

Oh, What a Lovely Century aromantic main character Andrew McMillan and Emma WatsonFor fear of growing up like his stiff upper lipped Uncle Dick, Roderic Fenwick Owen (1921 2011) survived Eton, Oxford and the Second World War to become a travel writer, experiencing the varied wonders of the 20th century's people and places in that guise. Frequently finding himself party to crucial historical events (including experiencing Nazi Germany in 1939 and the Pentagon during the Cold War Years), his life featured a stellar cast of characters