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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Posted in Atlantic Books, Schmitt, Éric-Emmanuel, death, parenting, first person narrator, France
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There's no mention made anywhere on Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt's Oscar And The Lady In Pink (2002) that it's the third title of a loose series called Le Cycle de l'Invisible, four ... Read more..
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Posted in jewish, fundamentalism, booker 2008, Grant, Linda, Virago, persecution, racism, identity, England, first person narrator, female perspective, family saga, relationships
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Linda Grant comes to this year's Booker longlist following on from her longlisting for this year's Orange Prize, an accolade she won in 2000 with her second novel, When I ... Read more..
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Posted in crime, booker 2008, Smith, Tom Rob, Simon & Schuster, murder, thriller, historical, England
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When the Booker longlist was announced late last month, I don't think there was anyone who would have expected to see Tom Rob Smith's Child 44 make the cut, including ... Read more..
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Posted in coming of age, Pushkin Press, loneliness, first person narrator, runaways, love, France, Zeller, Florian
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Florian Zeller is an author probably best marked as 'one for the future', given that he is still to reach thirty, but that hasn't stopped him in recent years putting ... Read more..
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Posted in power, Adiga, Aravind, booker 2008, Atlantic Books, humour, corruption, poverty, murder, first person narrator, India
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If you are tired of Indian novels built on a blend of saffron and saris then Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger (2008) may just be the antidote required. It's take ... Read more..