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Lines from the Roman poet are at the centre of a court case - and many news organisations still dare not translate them Quite an extraordinary chapter in the already extraordinary story of Mark Lowe and Jordan Wimmer. For those who haven't been following the lurid details, this is an ongoing ...
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Just because he's disowned The Cold Six Thousand, should readers automatically defer to his harsh judgment? About 20 of us were ushered along the quiet, institutional corridors of the BBC's Bush House . Following a security guard past an empty barber shop, a deserted cafe bar, up stairs and ...
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James Ellroy
The Cold Six Thousand
Out of sync with print-based reading habits, this form is nonetheless perfectly in tune with the web Ever since a suburban adolescence that was organised around a daily race home from school to devour a self-rationed chapter or two of Armistead Maupin's Tales Of The City, I have been intrigued ...
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Call me shallow (actually, please don't) but I think a good cover can be a significant component of a good read It's official: the nation is in the grip of Naboko-fever. You can't open a newspaper , switch on the radio , or click open a Guardian blog without stumbling across a reference to the ...
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"At the end of the story, the hints that have been scattered like mouse droppings lead us to the postmodern hole in the book where the rodent got in": James Wood, as you might have guessed, is really not terribly keen on Paul Auster . • How Jason Bourne survived his author, only to be horribly ...
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Paul Auster
Cherie's were shallow, Blunkett's risible and Campbell's partial. But the memoirs we are most looking forward to from the New Labour cabinet have be those of Lord Mandelson After the battle of the polls, the battle of the books. Whatever the outcome of the general election campaign, whose ...
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Peter Straub
Dan Brown
Our survey of the noughties' highlights continues with a year that brought new work from Kundera, an exciting debut from Kunzru, and contentious pop science from Stephen Pinker Ah, 2002. Authors cross with Amazon , libraries one step away from destruction , and Catherine Millet publishes an ...
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Gene Wolfe's vast tome sets many puzzles for the reader, not the least of which is why on earth it isn't better known First, a confession or two. I know I was meant to read Tim Powers's The Anubis Gates next , but Gene Wolfe arrived first in the post and so I got stuck in; by the time poor old ...
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Ulysses
This week, an inventive exploration of the forgetting built in to remembering This week's poem was first published in Skoulding's third full-length collection Remains of a Future City ( Seren 2008). As the paradoxical title of that volume suggests, many of the poems are concerned with cities ...
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Zoë Heller
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The subject reliably grabs attention, but the words
in a good story are usually getting up to...
all sorts of other stuff Now then, Best Beloveds: the short story. If we're sensible and care about prose, we will agree that it's a fine, exacting and ...
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AL Kennedy: Just because a story's about sex doesn't ...
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Keri Hulme's The Bone People deals with hefty issues surrounding Maori displacement. Shame it breaks down too easily into bad writing and spiritual nonsense The buzz when The Bone People won the Booker prize in 1986 was all about the struggle Keri Hulme had to bring it to publication. First ...
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The Bone People
Booker Prize
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As someone who works hard to get it
right in my own novels, I'm very aware of...
just how difficult it is to depict well As the bad sex in fiction award shortlist lined up yesterday, the authors and their publishers scrambled to declare they'd have ...
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Never mind the bad sex award – where's the good sex in ...
It was the year of Atonement, Body Artist and The Corrections, but what was your favourite book from 2001? It was the year our era began, with unprecedented abruptness, in obscene rolling news. But, blessedly, literature moves at a much slower pace, and it would be some years before the ...
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Speculative fiction has produced some of the most intriguing story titles ever. But which are the best of the best? You should never judge a book by its cover, but should you judge a story by its title? If the recent success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is anything to go by, then for ...
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Philip K. Dick
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She's been a brilliant writer since her 20s,
and her remarkably versatile work continues to dazzle and...
innovate I believe that most writers get better as they get older. Unlike, say, rock musicians, exploding in a star-burst of youthful inspiration, ...
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Plenty to celebrate at Margaret Atwood's 70th
A warning to politicians: if you're not going to compile an index for your controversial memoir, someone else will do it for you . • Unspeak on "Unfriend" . • The hidden world of book runners . • An attractive-sounding plan for reading all of Shakespeare . • A library of painted books . • ...
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Sarah Waters
Twilight
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Any truth in the charges of pretentiousness still
being levelled at him stopped applying nearly a decade...
ago It may not rouse too much interest on this side of the Atlantic, but tonight Dave Eggers will be presented with the Literarian Award by the ...
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Dave Eggers has outgrown his critics
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Just because the Penguin-branded products I sell are
not books themselves doesn't mean they don't promote reading...
Reading the polemic by Anthony Cummins on Penguin's continued brand evolution for the 21st century – partly developed by yours truly – ...
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Penguin designs should be seen beyond the bookshelf
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Nabokov didn't finish The Original of Laura, so
we'll never know how good it might have been...
– and that's the key to its tantalising appeal "For all sad words of tongue or pen / the saddest are these: 'it might have been!'" John Greenleaf Whittier's ...
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The dream of the Great Unfinished Novel
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My parents banned Enid Blyton's books – but
the BBC should not have done the same It...
seems so bloody-minded as to be unreal in today's world of chasing ratings. Nevertheless, ahead of tonight's Blyton biopic on BBC4 , it has been revealed that the ...
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The BBC's ban on Enid Blyton says more about its ...
