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Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India - William Dalrymple

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India - William Dalrymple

(3 stars)17 Dec 2009

(Bloomsbury) William Dalrymple’s publisher describes Nine Lives as his ‘first travel book in a decade’; this is rather misleading. Dalrymple’s own, contradictory phrase, ‘linked non-fiction stories’, is closer to the truth. This collection is, in…

Wigtown Book Festival 2009: Highlights from the final weekend

Wigtown Book Festival 2009: Highlights from the final weekend

29 Oct 2009

Wigtown Book Festival, hidden deep within rural Dumfries & Galloway, is one of the main events on the UK literary calenday. Griselda Murray Brown spent a weekend sampling the events on offer.

Patrick McCabe - The Holy City

Colm Tóibín - Brooklyn; Patrick McCabe - The Holy City

23 Sep 2009

Colm Tóibín’s and Patrick McCabe’s latest novels – both written during Ireland's 'Celtic Tiger' boom years and published this year – are two very different beasts.

Will Self - Liver And Other Stories

Will Self - Liver And Other Stories

Moments of brilliance are too often lost

(3 stars)17 Sep 2009

'If you are offended by a certain four letter word beginning in 'c' and ending in 't',' Will Self addresses his salt-and-pepper Edinburgh Book Festival audience, 'I suggest you leave now. If you are of a nervous or emotional disposition, I suggest you…

Diana Athill, Paddy Doyle and Iain Banks set for Wigtonn Book Festival

Diana Athill, Paddy Doyle and Iain Banks set for Wigtown Book Festival

15 Sep 2009

Tucked away on the Galloway coast, pretty little Wigtown is home to one of Scotland's worst kept literary secrets. After a bumper year in 2008, the annual Wigtown Book Festival looks set for its busiest year on record, with more than 170 events over 10…

Margaret Atwood - The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood - The Year of the Flood

Author launches new work at Edinburgh Book Festival

2 Sep 2009

The Flood which Margaret Atwood brings to an already soggy Charlotte Square gardens is, in fact, a waterless one. It is not sent by a punitive, Old Testament God but rather by scientists of the near future playing Him. Two isolated women, Toby and…

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