This superb novella, a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, feels like a doorstopper, so huge is it in its concerns.
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Tuesday 30 July 2013
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Wednesday 24 July 2013
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Wednesday 24 July 2013
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Saturday 20 July 2013
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Friday 19 July 2013
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Wednesday 17 July 2013
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Monday 15 July 2013
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Martin Amis says his surname has held him back
Monday 15 July 2013
The novelist Martin Amis has described his famous surname as a “burden”. In a Radio 4 interview, the son of the author and poet Kingsley Amis suggests his surname has damaged his career and says he wishes he had put “greater distance” between himself and his father.
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Sunday 14 July 2013
Celebrated crime writer Val McDermid, who wrote a positive “blurb” for the cover of The Cuckoo’s Calling unaware it was a Rowling work
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