Books, Issue 695
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StAnza International Poetry Festival 2012 - round-up
23 Mar 2012
Events at St Andrews festival encourage debate across artforms
One of the two themes for this year’s StAnza International Poetry Festival in St Andrews was The Image, and on the last day of the festival this theme was pushed in very different directions to explore poetry’s relationship with classic film…
Jenni Fagan, author of Panopticon - interview
17 Apr 2012
Debut features teenage girl trapped in a disturbing social experiment
Jenni Fagan takes on this issue’s debut author Q&A. Her first book features a teenage girl trapped in a disturbing social experiment. Give us five words to describe Panopticon? Gutsy, violent, philosophical, beautiful, sad. Name one author who should be…
Iain Banks - Stonemouth
27 Mar 2012
The spiritual follow-up to The Crow Road is slightly flawed, but still a page-turner
For those Iain Banks fans not overly keen on his sci-fi work, it will be a blessed relief to see no mention of a middle initial ‘M’ in his name here. For those who loved the prickly relationships and family machinations in the smalltown Scotland of The…
Maggie O’Farrell to appear at World Book Night event
27 Mar 2012
A talk with the author of The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Maggie O’Farrell often retells the moment when the notion of authorship became embedded in her psyche. At the age of five, little Maggie was struggling with a story she was penning. On asking if her mother would write it instead, she was met with this…
Gavin Pretor-Pinney - Clouds that Look Like Things
27 Mar 2012
Occasionally unconvincing gallery of cloudy lookalikes
(Sceptre) As founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society, Gavin Pretor-Pinney knows more than a thing or two about cirrus and cumulus. And all the other ones. The trouble with this collection is that some of the pictures are, frankly, not very…
How Soon is Now - music books round-up
26 Mar 2012
A round-up of music books from Richard King, Rob Young, Martin C Strong and Bernie Krause
The next best thing to hearing a great record is then going on to read all about it. Unless you feel that analysing music in any way is akin to destroying the purity of the aural experience. If you’re of that opinion then best avoid this clutch of…
