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Martin Amis - The Pregnant Widow

Martin Amis - The Pregnant Widow

(3 stars)18 Feb 2010

(Jonathan Cape) On page 395 of this 465-page endurance test, Martin Amis promises the following from one of his characters: ‘Gloria Beautyman, at least, will be giving us something that Life badly needs. Plot’. Life, Martin – and indeed your latest…

Delphine De Vigan - No and Me

Delphine De Vigan - No and Me

(4 stars)18 Feb 2010

(Bloomsbury) When Lou Bertignac decides to focus on the homeless of Paris for a school project, she is unprepared for the battle with herself she is about to undertake. Already life is barely tolerable with her dad often to be found crying in the…

Pedro Juam Gutierrez - Our GG in Havana

Pedro Juam Gutierrez - Our GG in Havana

(3 stars)18 Feb 2010

(Faber) To fans of the author behind such classic works as Brighton Rock and The Quiet American, it might come as something of a surprise to read the first 30 pages in this curt novel. Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, himself the scribe of the acclaimed Dirty…

The Still Point - Amy Sackville interview

The Still Point - Amy Sackville interview

17 Feb 2010

A married couple is asleep in bed. Back to back, knees bending, and feet touching, ‘they form the uneven outline of an urn’. Bizarrely, they are both dreaming of the same freezing cold place, but it means two very different things to them. To Simon, the…

Why there's life in the book trade yet

Why there's life in the book trade yet

Reading and righting

17 Feb 2010

Between the bankruptcy of Borders before Christmas and the oncoming onslaught of cheeky upstarts like the Kindle and the iPad, popular wisdom would have it that things are looking a little gloomy in the world of book selling. It’s certainly a…

New British Comics No 2

New British Comics No 2

(4 stars)17 Feb 2010

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