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James Frey

Aye Write! - James Frey

5 Mar 2009

Truth is a slippery business, and those who deal in it should be careful. This was what Haruki Murakami was saying last month when he accepted the Jerusalem Prize, a controversial writers’ award. He opened his speech saying: ‘I have come to Jerusalem…

Toby Litt - Journey into Space

Toby Litt - Journey into Space

(4 stars)5 Mar 2009

LITERARY SCI-FI There’s a good track record of literary writers dabbling in science fiction, from Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood to Iain Banks, and we can add to that fine company this remarkable and moving offering from Toby Litt. Having long…

Mari Strachan

Mari Strachan

5 Mar 2009

From The Catcher in the Rye to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, literature in English is littered with novelists attempting to capture the bold yet naive voice of adolescence. In her debut novel, The Earth Hums in B Flat, Welsh writer…

Alan Bennett - The Uncommon Reader

Aye Write! - Highlights

5 Mar 2009

Alan Bennett Everyone’s favourite northern talking head chats about The Uncommon Reader which speculates on the daring books HRH might flick through. Fri 6 Mar, 6pm. Willy Maley on Muriel Spark The man who co-edited the 100 Best Scottish Books Of…

Lola Jaye

Food for Thought - Lola Jaye

5 Mar 2009

This is a subject close to my heart. For a fantasy breakfast, a fry up. Organic mushrooms, scrambled eggs, bacon – with no fat on – and maybe a sausage. Nice, lovely cherry tomatoes, yum. Oh, and a glass of Coke. My ideal lunch? I got back from…

5 Paperback Debutants

5 Mar 2009

Edward Hogan - Blackmoor A dark tale of a close-knit mining community forced to abandon their homes while, ten years later, a child discovers exactly how his mother died there. Pocket. Lauren Liebenberg - The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and…

Joan Bakewell - All the Nice Girls

Joan Bakewell - All the Nice Girls

(3 stars)5 Mar 2009

WARTIME DRAMA Much like the time period it’s set within, the passion and intrigue in Joan Bakewell’s first novel hides behind a stodgy façade of 1940s wartime repression and tightly buttoned morals. Set in a prim girls’ school, the jolly hockey…

Walter Jon Williams - This Is Not a Game

Walter Jon Williams - This Is Not a Game

(2 stars)5 Mar 2009

TECHNO THRILLER If a novel set in a world of ‘greed, betrayal and social networking’ doesn’t sound especially exciting, that’s because it’s not. Walter Jon Williams might be highly acclaimed as a sci-fi writer, but This Is Not a Game engages a muddle…

Stona Fitch - Printer’s Devil

Stona Fitch - Printer’s Devil

(5 stars)5 Mar 2009

DYSTOPIAN NOVEL Cormac McCarthy set a new benchmark in dystopian fiction with his remarkable The Road, but this powerful and profound novel makes a good stab at matching it. In a future world blighted by post-apocalyptic environmental threats…

John Wagner, Alan Grant & Various - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 12

John Wagner, Alan Grant & Various - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 12

(3 stars)5 Mar 2009

SCI-FI COMIC Yet another huge Judge Dredd compendium from the pages of 2000AD. As per usual John Wagner and Alan Grant take up the writing reins of the ultimate lawman as he brings tough justice to the streets of sci-fi metropolis Mega City One.

Emmanuel Jal

Emmanuel Jal

5 Mar 2009

A former child soldier with the rebel army in Sudan’s civil war, Jal tells the story of his life through gospel rap as part of Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Book Festival. Mitchell Library, Glasgow. Tue 10 Mar.

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