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The Original of Laura: a Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov: review
Telegraph - 7 Hours ago
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst finds that more than three decades after The Original of Laura was laid to rest, Vladimir Nabokov's final work still tricks and teases Tennysons greatest fear towards the end
Book review: The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments The Scotsman
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Enid BBC Four review
Telegraph - 9 Hours ago
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
Guardian.co.uk - 9 Hours ago
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
Guardian.co.uk - 9 Hours ago
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 / user of out-of-date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
Guardian.co.uk - 9 Hours ago
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
The Magnificent Mrs Tennant by David Waller Guardian.co.uk
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Audiobooks roundup
Guardian.co.uk - 9 Hours ago
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)
Audiobooks review roundup Guardian.co.uk
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Book review: Cheever: A Life
The Scotsman - 13 Hours ago
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: Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Irish Tiger
The Scotsman - 14 Hours ago
How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Irish Tiger by Fintan O'Toole Faber, 224pp, £12.99 IN THE 1980s I lived for half a dozen years in Ireland. It's an easy country to fall in love with, and I did.
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Book review: A Change In Altitude
The Scotsman - 14 Hours ago
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
The Scotsman - 14 Hours ago
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 reviews: The Gilded Stage | The Freedoms of Suburbia | Peak Water
The Scotsman - 14 Hours ago
THE GILDED STAGE BY DANIEL SNOWMAN (Atlantic, £40) OBLIVIOUS to the action on the stage below, Tolstoy's characters pursue soap operas of their own, high up in their boxes; Italian patriots cheer for
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Book review: The Elephant And The Polish Question
The Scotsman - 14 Hours ago
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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Book reviews: He Knew He Was Right | Curiosities Of Literature | Nadirs
The Scotsman - 14 Hours ago
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT BY JOHN AND MARY GRIBBIN (Penguin, £9.99) MOST of us know that James Lovelock is the man who came up with the 'Gaia' theory â?' that the earth is a self-regulating system, almost
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UNDER THE DOME by Stephen King
Book Reporter - 9 Hours ago
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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THE GATHERING STORM: Book Twelve of The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan and Brandon
Book Reporter - 9 Hours ago
Wheel of Time, A MEMORY OF LIGHT, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson was chosen by Jordans editor his wife, Harriet McDougal to complete the
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HIGHEST DUTY: My Search for What Really Matters, by Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger,
Book Reporter - 9 Hours ago
HIGHEST DUTY by Captain Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, with Jeffrey Zaslow HIGHEST DUTY: My for What Really Matters Captain Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, with Jeffrey Zaslow William Morrow Autobiography
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BREAKING THE RULES by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Book Reporter - 9 Hours ago
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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HALF BROKE HORSES: A True-Life Novel, by Jeannette Walls
Book Reporter - 9 Hours ago
Jeannette Walls, like her contemporaries Mary Gordon and Mary Karr, has lived a life of unfathomable pain and tragedy, yet has managed to use the hurt as inspiration for great literary works. THE GLASS
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls Times Online
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Book Review: Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements by Dwight
Blogcritics.org - 13 Hours ago
There is nothing lacking in this collection of 20th century Americana. Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements provides a lasting tribute to the impossibly hard act of publishing and
Book Review : Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention Science News Online
Book Review: Why cant U teach me 2 read?: Three Students and a Mayor Put Our Schools California Chronicle
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Review: 'Otis' by Loren Long
Chicago Tribune - 15 Hours ago
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: 'Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson' by Sharon Robinson
Chicago Tribune - 15 Hours ago
This is the story you dont know, one that happened after Jackie Robinson moved his family out to Connecticut. The best thing about this book is that Sharon Robinson and Kadir Nelson can retell the story
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Review: 'Django' by Bonnie Christensen
Chicago Tribune - 15 Hours ago
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
Chicago Tribune - 17 Hours ago
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."
Washington Post - 19 Hours ago
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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Book Review Monday: Intellectual Property Rights and the Life Science Industries
Patent Baristas - 18 Hours ago
I aim to shed light on the extent to which advance in the life sciences was directed by the profit motive and the availability of the patent system â?¦ and on the ways that the patent â??institutionâ??
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