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Enid BBC Four review
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John Preston reviews Helena Bonham-Carter in BBC Four's biopic of children's author Enid Blyton. Published: 6:21PM GMT 20 Nov 2009 Enid (Monday, BBC Four), a dramatised biography of Enid Blyton starring
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Steven Poole's non-fiction roundup | Book review
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The Cartoons that Shook the World , by Jytte Klausen (Yale, £20) In what deserves to become the definitive account of the Danish cartoon controversy of 2005-6, none of the major actors comes out looking
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Tony Williams debut poetry collection | Book review
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Frances Leviston is charmed by a vision of northern England in a debut collection "O collapser of delicate moods and arch lyrical poignancies! / damper of youthful enthusiasms! / user of out-of-date
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The Magnificent Mrs Tennant | Book review
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Miranda Seymour enjoys a detailed insight into the daunting life of a Victorian hostess Gertrude Tennant, a centenarian born in 1818, was one of those formidable 19th-century hostesses whose names surface
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Audiobooks roundup
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Sue Arnold on Stephenie Meyer, Michael Crichton, Michael Morpurgo, Neil Gaiman and others Breaking Dawn , by Stephenie Meyer, read by Ilyana Kadushin and Matt Walters (21hrs unabridged, Hachette, £24.99)
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Book review: Cheever: A Life
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Cheever: A Life By Blake Bailey Picador, 784pp, £25 FOLLOWING John Cheever's death from cancer in 1982, his reputation as a writer and human, despite his alcoholism â?' indeed abetted by his recovery
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Book review: A Change In Altitude
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A Change In Altitude By Anita Shreve Little, Brown, 291pp, £16.99 BEING a prolific writer can count against you. One novel every three or four years is all well and good, but to be seen to be churning
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Book review: Truth or Fiction
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Truth or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston Headline Review, 152pp, £14.99 JENNIFER Johnston is an elegant and economical writer, whose novels are always beautifully structured. The title of her new book â?'
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Book review: The Elephant And The Polish Question
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THE ELEPHANT AND THE POLISH QUESTION AND OTHER STORIES BY HELEN LYNCH Bluechrome Publishing, 350pp, £10.99 TWO decades after the collapse of the Berlin Wall Helen Lynch takes us behind the Iron Curtain
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UNDER THE DOME by Stephen King
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under the dome. While Big Jim Rennie choreographs a chaos designed to maintain the towns dependence on him, Barbie and a handful of brave souls --- including town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's
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BREAKING THE RULES by Barbara Taylor Bradford
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BREAKING THE RULES St. Martinâ??s Press Romance ISBN: 9780312578060 Barbara Taylor Bradford is celebrating the 30th anniversary of her record-breaking debut novel, A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE, with her 25th
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Review: 'Otis' by Loren Long
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If your last fond memory of a bovine sitting under a tree is a bull named Ferdinand, and you loved Mike Mulliganâ??s steam shovel, Mary Ann, this book is for you, though it includes neither a bull nor
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Review: 'Django' by Bonnie Christensen
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The opening picture shows the world into which Django Reinhardt was born, in 1910, in Belgium. A small caravan sits on the outskirts of a city. Django plays his banjo on the streets of Paris, and soon
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Review: 'The Art Student's War' by Brad Leithauser
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To engage in some literary hopscotch momentarily, consider that the poet and novelist Brad Leithauser, writing in Slate magazine on John Updike, connected his subject with Henry James's admonition that
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"Eating Animals."
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EATING ANIMALS By Jonathan Safran Foer Little, Brown. 341 pp. $25.99 It's tempting to dismiss Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Eating Animals' as the product of a cocky, self-involved writer who woke up one day
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