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Best of a decade: Books

Best of a decade: Books

2 Dec 2009

1. Cormac McCarthy – The Road (2006) 2. Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) 3. Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections (2001) 4. James Ellroy – The Cold Six Thousand (2001) 5. A L Kennedy – Paradise (2004) 6. Louise…

Where The Wild Things Are

Where The Wild Things Are

(3 stars)1 Dec 2009

Long deemed unfilmmable, Maurice Sendak’s nine-sentence children’s tale about a boy whose bedroom turns into a forest full of huge creatures gets the Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) treatment. To fluff out the story, Jonze employed A…

Also Published: US novels

Also Published: US novels

Brian Donaldson rounds up the best of the books reaching us from the US this autumn

15 Oct 2009

Dave Eggers - The Wild Things, Eric Schlosser - Command and Control, James Ellroy - Blood's a Rover, Gin Phillips - The Well and the Mine, Ryan David Jahn - Acts of Violence, Attica Locke - Black Water Rising

Away we go

Away we go

(2 stars)11 Sep 2009

After Revolutionary Road, director Sam Mendes takes a turn for the worse with this naff impersonation of an independent American comedy road movie written by publisher and memoirist Dave Eggers and his Mrs (Vendela Vida). Expectant parents Burt (John…

Hitlist - The best books, comics & events

18 Jun 2007

(Photo: © Marianne Mitchelson) Janet Paisley In a swift shift of career gear, this Falkirk-based poet and playwright brings us her debut novel with White Rose Rebel, a Scottish romance set in Jacobite times. Waterstone’s, Glasgow, Thu 5 Jul.

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