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Books
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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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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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: 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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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.
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.
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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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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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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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 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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