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Welcome Printers Row!
- 4 Hours ago
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Chicago tribune's Liam Ford discussed five things he was surprised to learn while researching his book, 'Soldier Field: A Stadium and Its City' and we focused in on three facts about Chicago we were surprised
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Classic review: The Lovely Bones
- 6 Hours ago
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[This review from the Monitor?s archives originally ran on July 25, 2002.] Don?t start Lovely Bones unless you can finish it. The book begins with more horror than you could imagine, but closes with more
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To Sea and Back by Richard Shelton: review
- 10 Hours ago
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Richard Shelton's To Sea and Back is full of diverting fishermen's tales but the salmon itself gets away, finds Tom Fort By Tom Fort Published: 5:55AM GMT 08 Nov 2009 If salmon had soft fur, brown eyes
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The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips | Book review
- 12 Hours ago
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In Alabama, little Tess has her quiet place, curled on the porch in the evening shadows with the family's creek-fed well keeping her company. But one night a woman appears, throws a swaddled â?? but living
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The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
- 12 Hours ago
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"Granted: I'm an inmate in a mental institutionâ?¦" So begins Oskar Matzerath, narrator of Günter Grass's 1959 debut. With the help of one of his titular drums, Oskar recounts â?? not always reliably
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The Devil Is a Gentleman by Phil Baker | Book review
- 12 Hours ago
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Luke Jennings succumbs to Dennis Wheatley's devilish charms In 1966, a young editor named Giles Gordon joined Hutchinson and was handed the latest Dennis Wheatley manuscript. Some streak of devilry made
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Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey | Book review
- 12 Hours ago
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Adam Mars-Jones finds much to relish in Blake Bailey's life of John Cheever â?? a writer who had an immense capacity for joy but none for happiness Blake Bailey seems to specialise in writing the lives
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The Comfort of Saturdays by Alexander McCall Smith
- 12 Hours ago
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Visions of happiness â?? that's how Alexander McCall Smith entices readers into his Sunday Philosophy Club novels. His heroine, Isabel Dalhousie, has it all: a lover, a child, stimulating work, a house
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The Freedoms of Suburbia by Paul Barker
- 12 Hours ago
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We love to hate the suburbs but for Paul Barker they are places of humanity where individuality flourishes, says Rachel Cooke I grew up on the west side of Sheffield, close to Broomhill , a place which,
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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
- 12 Hours ago
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Barbara Kingsolver's latest novel suffers from a surfeit of history, says Alice O'Keeffe Barbara Kingsolver's 1998 novel The Poisonwood Bible is often described as a "book club classic" â?? a double-edged
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Vincent van Gogh The Complete Letters: review
- 17 Hours ago
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This sumptuous edition of Vincent van Gogh's complete letters shows that the artist was as adept with pen and ink as with paint and canvas, says Martin Gayford Early in June 1888, a lonely Dutchman sent
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Book Review: Meltdown
- 4 Hours ago
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Acts of Violence by Ryan David Jahn | Book review
- 11 Hours ago
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Poor, ill-fated Kitty Genovese became infamous after she was brutally murdered in Brooklyn in 1964. A staggering 38 people allegedly witnessed the attack, but not one came to her aid: the Bystander Effect
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The Passport by Herta Müller | Book review
- 11 Hours ago
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The Passport by Herta Muller 96pp, Serpent's Tail, £7.99 She won the Nobel prize for literature a month ago, but this short book is currently the only novel by Herta Müller available first-hand in English
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