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The Original of Laura: a Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov: review 
Telegraph - 14 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 - 16 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     Add Comment

Steven Poole's non-fiction roundup | Book review 
Guardian.co.uk - 17 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     Add Comment

Tony Williams debut poetry collection | Book review 
Guardian.co.uk - 17 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 / user of out-of-date     Add Comment

The Magnificent Mrs Tennant | Book review 
Guardian.co.uk - 17 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 - 17 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: Lost Voices From The Titanic â?? The Definitive Oral History 
The Scotsman - 7 Hours ago
Lost Voices From The Titanic âÂ?Â? The Definitive Oral History by Nick Barratt is published by Preface Publishing, priced Ã?£20. This new book about the world's most famous shipwreck confirms unpleasant     Add Comment

Book review: Cheever: A Life 
The Scotsman - 21 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     Add Comment

Book review: Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Irish Tiger 
The Scotsman - 21 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.     Add Comment

Book review: A Change In Altitude 
The Scotsman - 21 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     Add Comment

Book review: Truth or Fiction 
The Scotsman - 21 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?'     Add Comment

Book reviews: The Gilded Stage | The Freedoms of Suburbia | Peak Water 
The Scotsman - 21 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     Add Comment

Book review: The Elephant And The Polish Question 
The Scotsman - 21 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     Add Comment

Book reviews: He Knew He Was Right | Curiosities Of Literature | Nadirs 
The Scotsman - 21 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     Add Comment

Christmas Love at Lake Tahoe - by Lena Nelson Dooley 
TheCelebrityCafe.com - 70 Minutes ago
by Lena Nelson Dooley Christmas Inspirational Romance Fantastic. Wow. Wow. Wow. This book will delight you from the first page to the end. You will have a hard time putting it down. Four stories about     Add Comment

Andre Agassis Hate of the Game 
New York Times - 4 Hours ago
Even those not convinced that Andre Agassi was the best tennis player of his time will readily admit he outdid all others in attracting attention, beginning in the 1980s, when he was a teenage phenom     Add Comment

My True Story 
New York Times - 4 Hours ago
Finally, on the second-to-last page of his history of memoir, a tale packed from beginning to end with scandals, liars and cheats, Ben Yagoda asks the question weve been waiting for: How do we know when     Add Comment

Haleh Esfandiari: Prisoner of Tehran 
New York Times - 4 Hours ago
In 2007, Haleh Esfandiari, the Iranian-American director of the Woodrow Wilson Centers Middle East Program, told Iranian intelligence everything she knew. She was interrogated for almost eight months,     Add Comment

Double Agency 
New York Times - 4 Hours ago
The British edition of Typhoon came out one year ago. I was living in China then and ordered a copy from London. It never arrived, though the Royal Mails tracking system showed that it had made its way     Add Comment

Andre Agassi Talks About His Book Open 
Oprah.com - 5 Hours ago
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Why Andre Agassi's ready to Open up Oprah.com
Book Review Podcast: Andre Agassi and Stephen King New York Times
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