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Chicago Tribune - 2 Hours ago
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
Christian Science Monitor - 4 Hours ago
[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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The Plot: A Biography of an English Acre by Madeleine Bunting: review
Telegraph - 8 Hours ago
Madeleine Bunting's The Plot mixes memoir and nature writing to powerful effect, says Jeremy Seal By Jeremy Seal Published: 5:50AM GMT 08 Nov 2009 Plot, as any writer must appreciate, is an interestingly
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To Sea and Back by Richard Shelton: review
Telegraph - 8 Hours ago
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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Clisson and Eugénie: A Love Story by Napoleon Bonaparte: review
Telegraph - 8 Hours ago
Clisson and Eugnie, a carefully reconstructed novella by the Corsican Ogre, demonstrates that, as a writer of fiction, Boney was positively ropey, says Jonathan Keates By Jonathan Keates Published: 6:00AM
Clisson and Eugnie: A Love Story by Napoleon Bonaparte: review Telegraph
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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave, The
Guardian.co.uk - 10 Hours ago
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell. Read by Philip Glenister CSA Word £16.16 6hrs The year of Orwell's dystopia is now long past, but it's frightening to realise just how much of it has come true.
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The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips | Book review
Guardian.co.uk - 10 Hours ago
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
Guardian.co.uk - 10 Hours ago
"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
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass | Book review Observer
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Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil by Peter Maass | Book review
Guardian.co.uk - 10 Hours ago
A brilliant exposé of the oil industry uncovers the shocking human cost of fuel, says Peter Preston Plunder, Rot, Fear, Greed and Desire. Laconic chapter headings tell the story. This brilliant, dismaying
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The Devil Is a Gentleman by Phil Baker | Book review
Guardian.co.uk - 10 Hours ago
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
The Devil Is a Gentleman by Phil Baker Observer
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Letters of Ted Hughes edited by Christopher Reid | Book review
Guardian.co.uk - 10 Hours ago
Relentless daily trivia, the shackles of conformity and the "clamour of the world" were, for Ted Hughes, foes of the creative spirit. And Hughes the writer is the focus of this magnificent collection,
Letters of Ted Hughes selected and edited by Christopher Reid Guardian.co.uk
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Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey | Book review
Guardian.co.uk - 10 Hours ago
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
Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey Guardian.co.uk
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Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
Guardian.co.uk - 10 Hours ago
Amid Andre Agassi's self-serving revelations about drugs and his rivals, Geoff Dyer finds some thrilling insights into the game of tennis Norman Mailer reckoned that, as big fights loomed, great boxers
Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi | Book review Observer
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Gabriel García Márquez: A Life by Gerald Martin | Book Review
Guardian.co.uk - 10 Hours ago
Nobel laureate, global bestseller, magical realist and friend of Castro: which is the real Gabriel García Márquez? "Whatever you write," he told Gerald Martin, his biographer, "that is what I will be."
Gabriel García Márquez: A Life by Gerald Martin Guardian.co.uk
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When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin by Mick Wall | Book review
Guardian.co.uk - 10 Hours ago
Hammer of the Gods , Stephen Davis's 1985 biography of Led Zeppelin, was dismissed by the band as a seedy fiction, but if this account by band confidant Mick Wall portrays anything more clean-living,
When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin by Mick Wall Guardian.co.uk
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The Comfort of Saturdays by Alexander McCall Smith
Guardian.co.uk - 10 Hours ago
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
The Comfort of Saturdays by Alexander McCall Smith | Book review Observer
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The Freedoms of Suburbia by Paul Barker
Guardian.co.uk - 10 Hours ago
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,
The Freedoms of Suburbia by Paul Barker | Book review Observer
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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Guardian.co.uk - 10 Hours ago
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
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver | Book review Observer
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Vincent van Gogh The Complete Letters: review
Telegraph - 15 Hours ago
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
Vincent van Gogh - The Complete Letters: review Telegraph
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Book Review: Meltdown
The Scotsman - 2 Hours ago
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Book review: John Irving's 'Last Night In Twisted River'
San Jose Mercury News - 8 Hours ago
The bear makes its first appearance on Page 28. Because we're in a John Irving novel, tragedy is practically guaranteed to follow. 'It was an accident,' a character declares after the unfortunate death
Review: John Irving's 'Last Night in Twisted River' a passive story of a storyteller St. Petersburg Times
LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER by John Irving Book Reporter
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Acts of Violence by Ryan David Jahn | Book review
Observer - 9 Hours ago
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
Observer - 9 Hours ago
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
The Passport by Herta Müller Guardian.co.uk
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A Taste of My Life: One Man's Hunger for Perfection by Raymond Blanc | Book review
Observer - 9 Hours ago
A Taste of My Life by Raymond Blanc 400pp, Corgi Books, £8.99 The celebrated head chef of Le Manoir Aux Quat' Saisons in Oxfordshire begins this memoir with the early memory of mopping the juice from
A Taste of My Life: One Man's Hunger for Perfection by Raymond Blanc Guardian.co.uk
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The Last Chance: Roads of Freedom IV by Jean-Paul Sartre | Book review
Observer - 9 Hours ago
Last Chance: Roads to Freedom IV: Roads of Freedom IV by Jean-Paul Sartre, Craig Vasey 240pp, Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., £14.99 In 1938, Jean-Paul Sartre began Roads of Freedom, the
The Last Chance: Roads of Freedom IV by Jean-Paul Sartre Guardian.co.uk
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