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Monday, 10 June 2013

Goodbye Iain Banks | Scottish author of The Wasp Factory, Culture, The Crow Road

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The end when it came was far more sudden, far swifter than anyone had thought. Ian Rankin, his friend and fellow Fifer, in a touching, off ...
Tuesday, 22 January 2013

A26 | Roadkill | Pascal Garnier

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Pascal Garnier’s The A26... this is literary fiction with a hapless, desperate serial killer. At first I didn’t think it really ...
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Pow! First impressions of a controversial Chinese literary POWerhouse

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Thinking about it, 2013 has to be the ideal time to focus on the big wide world. The last twelve months have, after all, been so bloody ...

An Elk is for life, not just for Christmas... Doppler

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The cover of Doppler by Erlend Loe comes with a neat little tagline: “An elk is for life... not just for Christmas.” John Lewis, eat y...
Friday, 23 November 2012

SAS man hits the high street | Theo Knell struggles to adjust

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If there is ever an invasion....   I want TheoKnell on my side. Theo served with the British Army, including the SAS, for 22 years. A ...
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CJ Sansom | Dominion | Nazis in Great Britain

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He is best known for his historical detective series starring the Tudor hunchback, Shardlake – think Wolf Hall crossed with Inspector ...
Monday, 12 November 2012

Tulisa Honest My Story So Far | Celebrity Biographies, two for a pound | Oh no, it's Christmas

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You can tell it’s getting close to Christmas from the glossy tell-alls piling up in the shops. Out of the current top ten hardback ...