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Books, Reviews, Issue 584

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Nathan Englander

Nathan Englander

(Faber)

(3 stars)23 Aug 2007

Nathan Englander, the New York-born author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, makes a confident leap from critically acclaimed short story writer to novelist with the audacious The Ministry of Special Cases. It's set in 1970s Buenos Aires during…

Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle

(Jonathan Cape)

(4 stars)23 Aug 2007

In light of the lucrative offers put his way over the years to pen a full sequel to his 1987 classic The Commitments, it’s so very Roddy Doyle that he instead gave one of the book’s major characters – manager Jimmy Rabbite – a rebirth in the pages of a…

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