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Extract: The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
An excerpt from the winner of this year's Costa novel award
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An excerpt from the winner of this year's Costa novel award
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Novel Regards Slave Trade In Reverse
In British writer Bernardine Evaristo's new novel, Blonde Roots, African slave traders raid Europe. Evaristo wields language and messes with history and geography with the gusto of someone having a great time with a great subject.
NPR.org – 13 hours, 41 minutes ago – comment?
In British writer Bernardine Evaristo's new novel, Blonde Roots, African slave traders raid Europe. Evaristo wields language and messes with history and geography with the gusto of someone having a great time with a great subject.
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Nonagenarian Diana Athill leads Costa book award winners
At 91, the former publisher Diana Athill tonight became one of the oldest writers to ever win a major literary prize, taking the 2008 Costa prize for biography. Somewhere Towards The End, in which she contemplates the pros and cons of advanced age, was one of five category winners on a good night fo ... more »
The Guardian – 14 hours, 58 minutes ago – comment?
At 91, the former publisher Diana Athill tonight became one of the oldest writers to ever win a major literary prize, taking the 2008 Costa prize for biography. Somewhere Towards The End, in which she contemplates the pros and cons of advanced age, was one of five category winners on a good night fo ... more »
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Extract: Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
About the deaths of my paternal grandparents, my father's siblings and my mother's father I know little, but nothing was ever said to suggest that they were particularly harrowing, while on my mother's side one sister had a stroke when she was eighty-three from which she died almost a ... more »
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About the deaths of my paternal grandparents, my father's siblings and my mother's father I know little, but nothing was ever said to suggest that they were particularly harrowing, while on my mother's side one sister had a stroke when she was eighty-three from which she died almost a ... more »
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Extract: Just Henry by Michelle Magorian
An excerpt from the winner of this year's Costa children's book award
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An excerpt from the winner of this year's Costa children's book award
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Extract: The Outcast by Sadie Jones
An excerpt from the winner of this year's Costa first novel award
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An excerpt from the winner of this year's Costa first novel award
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'Voluntary Madness' Details Life In 'Loony Bin'
Norah Vincent spent 18 months living disguised as a man. The experience led to deep depression and a stay at a mental institution. Once she left, Vincent decided to check back into institutions across the country. She tells her story in Voluntary Madness.
NPR.org – 15 hours, 53 minutes ago – comment?
Norah Vincent spent 18 months living disguised as a man. The experience led to deep depression and a stay at a mental institution. Once she left, Vincent decided to check back into institutions across the country. She tells her story in Voluntary Madness.
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Jonathan Jones: William Burroughs's exhibition only shows the limits of his art
The most overrated cultural icon of the late 20th century has just come grinding back into town, words trailing like bloody tendrils, gears shifting lugubriously, voice stentorian as ever. Death warmed up. If you have spent the last few years wishing old William Burroughs was still around, good news ... more »
The Guardian – 16 hours, 57 minutes ago – comment?
The most overrated cultural icon of the late 20th century has just come grinding back into town, words trailing like bloody tendrils, gears shifting lugubriously, voice stentorian as ever. Death warmed up. If you have spent the last few years wishing old William Burroughs was still around, good news ... more »
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First lady Laura Bush inks deal with Scribner to publish White House memoir
The advocate for reading and former librarian set to try her hand at book authorship
The Guardian – 17 hours, 58 minutes ago – comment?
The advocate for reading and former librarian set to try her hand at book authorship
The Guardian – 17 hours, 58 minutes ago – comment?
A brief survey of the short story part 13: Franz Kafka
If we accept Vladimir Nabokov's judgment that "a good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a re-reader" and place it alongside Albert Camus's remark that "the whole of Kafka's art consists in compelling the reader to re-read him", we might concl ... more »
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If we accept Vladimir Nabokov's judgment that "a good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a re-reader" and place it alongside Albert Camus's remark that "the whole of Kafka's art consists in compelling the reader to re-read him", we might concl ... more »
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