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10 Apr 2007
Louis De Bernieres, Iain Banks (pictured) and Lionel Shriver, Rhona Cameron and Idlewild singer Roddy Woomble are among the artists appearing at this year’s WORD Festival, which takes place at the University of Aberdeen and venues across the granite…
9 Apr 2007
Paulo Coelho The acclaimed Brazilian writer ventures upon our shores to chat about his work in general and his 2006 publications, in particular. Best do your homework on The Witch of Portobello and Like the Flowing River before popping along. SECC…
Isabel Allende Inés of My Soul Based on true events, this is the story of the first Spanish woman to arrive in Chile with the Conquistadors of the 1500s. Fourth Estate.
TEENAGE DRAMA The confused and lusty youthdom of Britain are everywhere at the moment from the seemingly daily scare stories on the tabloid front pages and broadsheet opinion columns to the hedonistic revelry of Skins. On literature’s side, January’s…
Early on in Swung, messed-up protagonist David is fired via email from within his own office. This would be bad enough were it not sent in the font which David himself had created to somehow soften the blow for those at the end of a sacking. But surely…
GOTHIC PASTICHE The slip-sliding new book from award-winning American novelist Jennifer Egan opens with a scene familiar from the 1930s Universal horror classics as Danny, a 36-year-old drifter, arrives at a castle in Eastern Europe. Summoned…
BLACK COMEDY At first glance, The Male Gaze is cheerful dick-lit. English bloke, stuck in LA, feeling detached from his wife, meets vivacious American woman for out-of-character adventures. Things soon take a darker turn, as a young girl’s suicide…
HORROR (Photo: © Shami Gee) You have to wonder, upon reading Jonny Glynn’s debut novel, whether his friends can still look at him in quite the same way. After all, within just 45 pages we’re already treated to a detailed description of two…
FAMILY DRAMA Charlotte Mendelson returns with a sweeping familial drama charting the decline and fall of a well-to-do, very Jewish London family funnelled through the revolving narrative ciphers of three characters in crisis. Rabbi Claudia, son Leo…
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9 Apr 2007
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