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Global crisis: Alex Preston deals with the financial slump

This Bleeding City, By Alex Preston

In recent months a high, teetering pile of factual books about the financial crisis has accumulated, poised for a resounding crash of its own down upon the heads of unwary readers.
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Inside Books

Adventures on the High Teas, By Stuart Maconie

Friday, 5 March 2010

This book by an admirable fixture at Radio 2 explores a milieu notable for "loft conversions, CCTV cameras, white-towelling hen parties in health spas, trampolines in suburban gardens..." In other words, Middle England.
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The Lives of Ants, By Laurent Keller & Elisabeth Gordon

Friday, 5 March 2010

Pretty much everything is astonishing about ants. Though they prefer a bit of heat, they are also found in Finland and the Alps. They are more of them than any other animal.
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Celebrity, By Marina Hyde

Friday, 5 March 2010

The phenomena explored here include: Jude Law's personal mission in 2007 to bring peace to Afghanistan ("Obviously the situation was too complicated for us to sit down with the Taliban")
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Walks into oblivion through a crisis of identity: Joshua Ferris

The Unnamed, By Joshua Ferris

Friday, 26 February 2010

Joshua Ferris's debut novel was written in the first-person plural. The narrative voice in his second, in contrast, could hardly be more singular.
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After Lives: a guide to heaven, hell and purgatory, By John Casey

Friday, 26 February 2010

The after-life is a pretty well-explored destination, both in the sense that, if most of the world's great faiths are to be believed, all of us end up there, and in that it has been the subject of some of the most enduring works of literature known to humankind.
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A Life Apart, By Neel Mukherjee

Friday, 26 February 2010

As the title to Neel Mukherjee's first novel suggests, this is a story about never quite being a part of the worlds one inhabits.
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The Cello Suites, By Eric Siblin

Friday, 19 February 2010

Eric Siblin is in many ways just the kind of listener whom musicians love to find in their audiences: an open-minded voyager who's trying something new.
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The Armies, By Evelio Rosero

Friday, 19 February 2010

Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, this quietly devastating novel speaks gently but strikes deep.
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13 Things That Don't Make Sense, By Michael Brooks

Friday, 19 February 2010

Remember the cold fusion debacle a few years ago? The scientists involved were excoriated when no one could reproduce their results, but recent discoveries suggest that they might have been heading in the right direction.
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Cairo Swan Song, By Mekkawi Said, trans Adam Talib

Friday, 19 February 2010

Cairo is gigantic, but still it brims over with humanity. Its population is at least 20 million and still growing. Satellite cities arise in the desert, the suburbs surround the Pyramids, informal settlements colonise Fatimid mausoleums.
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JK Rowling has been accused of plagiarism

JK Rowling: Harry Potter plagiarism claim ‘absurd’

Friday, 19 February 2010

Author JK Rowling hit out at plagiarism claims against her Harry Potter series as “unfounded” and “absurd” yesterday.
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Bertie Ahern's autobiography left on the shelves

Friday, 19 February 2010

Bertie Ahern's autobiography has flopped in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK — with a meagre 2,000 copies sold.
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JK Rowling faces a lawsuit which claims she stole ideas for her Harry Potter books

Harry Potter author JK Rowling accused of plagiarism

Thursday, 18 February 2010

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been named in a lawsuit claiming she stole ideas for her wildly popular and lucrative books from another British author.

File photo dated 24//03/56 of Dick Francis, the champion jockey turned best-selling thriller writer, who has died at the age of 89, jumping the Queen's Mother's Devon Loch, over the feared Becher's Brook during the Grand National Handicap Steeplechase at Aintree

Dick Francis, writer and jockey , dies at 89

Monday, 15 February 2010

Disk Fancis, the champion jockey turned best-selling thriller writer, has died at the age of 89.

There are fears giving Google the rights to millions of books could stifle competition

Fears over Google digital book deal

Friday, 5 February 2010

The US government still believes a proposal to give Google the digital rights to millions of hard-to-find books threatens to stifle competition and undermine copyright laws, it has emerged.
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<b>Selected Stories, By Stefan Zweig</b> 
PUSHKIN PRESS £9.99
' Fans of old movies may be familiar with Letter from an Unknown Woman, starring Joan Fontaine, which was adapted from Stefan Zweig's 1922 novella telling the story of a playboy and his amours from the point of view of one of the discarded women. Abortive relationships between men and women dominate this splendid collection, where a touch or a fleeting memory illuminates the cruelty or the ignorance of an individual.
In 'Fantastic Night', an Austrian lieutenant remembers the night that changed him from a self-indulgent young man into a caring individual - and during which he stole money, consorted with a prostitute and was almost robbed. As in many of these stories, the more sordid aspects - not necessarily of life, but of character - are revealed.
In 'The Fowler Snared', a man's manipulations of a young girl expose his moral vacuity; in 'Buchmendel', a whole society's mistreatment of a Jewish book-pedlar shocks one of his former customers, who had forgotten the old man and, in doing so, behaved just as badly.
Human frailties and human cruelties are Zweig's eternal themes...'

The best of the new books

Wednesday, 3 February 2010

Enrich your mind with a selection of the latest hardback and paperback books.
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<b>Lady Chatterley's Lover</b> by D.H.Lawrence was banned temporarily in the US, UK and Australia for violating obscenity laws. The tale is about an isolated upper class Bohemian, Connie Chatterley, whose unsatisfactory marriage to a paralysed war veteran, Clifford Chatterley, leads her to engage in sex with other men, including vividly written liaisons with Oliver Mellors, a young gamekeeper on her husband's estate. The ban was lifted in the America and Britain in 1959 and 1960 respectively.

Banned: The books you could be jailed for reading

Saturday, 30 January 2010

We look at ten controversial books which have been banned here and around the world.
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Tributes have been paid to Catcher In The Rye author JD Salinger, who died aged 91

Literary colossus JD Salinger dies at 91

Friday, 29 January 2010

JD Salinger, the reclusive American author whose classic novel of adolescent angst and discovery The Catcher In The Rye, was required reading for generations of readers transfixed by its emotional turmoil, died yesterday aged 91 at his New Hampshire home.
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Colm Toibin

Colm Toibin misses out on major literary prize

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Irish author Colm Toibin's bestselling book Brooklyn last night was pipped at the post for the Costa Book of the Year Award, one of Britain’s most prestigious literary prizes.
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Easter Rising comic proves a hit

Friday, 15 January 2010

It is the chaos and destruction of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin — but not as anyone has ever seen it before.
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