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12 Feb 2007
So, what’s in a name? Quite a lot as far as Toni Davidson is concerned. The author of 1999’s cult classic Scar Culture wants you to have his characters ingrained on your memory. And if giving them a title which will leap out at you from the relative…
29 Jan 2007
TEEN DRAMA The 80s may have been the decade that taste forgot (unless you reckon that was the 70s or 90s), but it’s been wildly in vogue for writers looking to pick on an even meaner, reckless period than the one we are currently dragging ourselves…
12 Jan 2007
POETRY COLLECTION Daljit Nagra’s parents moved from the Punjab to Britain in the 1950s and it’s no real surprise that his poetry should be knitted together from bits of his cultural heritage and present environment. So, in the opener ‘Darling & Me!…
SOCIAL DRAMA When a book claims that in its setting that ‘nothing bad ever happens’, you can rest assured that many different variants of excrement will be hitting the fan. With Niven Govinden’s zingy second novel, the disaffected youth of Surrey are…
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS Taking complicated economic arguments and turning them into coherent and accessible reading is no mean task. But Will Hutton has long been a master of making the difficult easier to digest. His previous books have looked at…
19 Dec 2006
MEMOIR Maybe it has ever been thus, but the cult of an individual neither you nor I have ever heard of telling us all about their unfortunate life seems to be spreading. We may wish to blame Frank McCourt for it all, but the misery market is flooded…
7 Dec 2006
Alan Warner The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven One of his less ‘difficult’ books, the Oban-born, Dublin-based writer’s return was a metaphysical lurch into desperation with a Spanish protagonist living in the shadow of HIV. A typical gallery of Warnerian…
BIOGRAPHY/MANUAL What’s the first rule among magicians? Surely it’s the one about never ever divulging the secrets of your chosen profession. So, what on earth is Derren Brown doing here telling the humble general public how to develop useful…
POETRY In the recent Punk Night documentary on ITV4, John Lydon was being characteristically, boringly dismissive of the New York acts (Ramones, Television, Patti Smith) who arrived as the British wave exploded. They were just too educated, too…
27 Nov 2006
PHOTOJOURNALISM A picture, as the hoary old cliché runs, paints a thousand words. If that’s the case, then there may not be enough of them in all the languages of the world to cover the stories featured in LIFE magazine down the years. Created in…
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