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Five Christmas books

Five Christmas books

7 Jan 2010

Augusten Burroughs You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas A twisted collection of Yuletide tales in which the face of a stuffed Santa is eaten off and a tenement is constructed entirely from gingerbread. Atlantic. Loek Koopmans The…

Paul Auster - Sunset Park

Paul Auster - Sunset Park

(3 stars)27 Oct 2010

(Faber) It’s nearly 25 years since New Jersey boy Paul Auster wormed his way into the literary psyche with the unnervingly brilliant New York Trilogy. The existential mysteries and metaphysical puzzles he set up and explored seemed fresh and…

Couple of bookworms - Literary couples

Couple of bookworms - Literary couples

25 Jun 2009

Inspired by Glen David Gold and Alice Sebold, Brian Donaldson peeks at the dust jackets to uncover other literary couples Jonathan Safran Foer & Nicole Krauss As a teenager, Nicole Krauss had a crush on German philosopher Walter Benjamin.

Books of the year

11 Dec 2008

Gordon Burn - Born Yesterday Another remarkable literary achievement from Burn as he re-imagines the epochal news events from the summer of 2007. Chuck Palahniuk - Snuff A beautifully crafted yet typically grotesque portrayal of the porn industry…

Paul Auster - Man in the Dark

(5 stars)21 Aug 2008

In addressing the increasingly threadbare myths that America tells itself about 9/11 and the ensuing war, Auster has shed the dazzling hyper-reflexive post-modern narrative trickery he’s known for like an empty skin, revealing something tender and…

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