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Showing posts with label hilary mantel. Show all posts
Monday, 30 July 2018

Summer Reading 2018

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1. Incredible Bodies by Ian McGuire A friend in academia recommended this to me, as it documents the travails of a visiting lecturer a...
Saturday, 3 January 2015

Books of the Year for 2014

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A Happy New Year to One and All! And herewith are my books of the year, for 2014. Fiction Hermione Eyre's first novel, Viper Wine ...
Friday, 18 April 2014

Future Classics for Spear's

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Spear's asked me to recommend some books that might become classics in the future. Read my recs here.
Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Sally Gardner's Maggot Moon: A worthy contender for the Costa Awards

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Sally Gardner: A worthy contender So Hilary Mantel won the Costa Prize; for which I do not begrudge her - Bring up the Bodies is a fine...
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Tuesday, 7 August 2012

A Brace of Booker Books: The Lighthouse by Alison Moore, and Swimming Home by Deborah Levy

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Dan Stevens: Judge Morning all: I've reviewed a couple of Man Booker longlisted novels for The Telegraph - The Lighthouse by Alison...
Sunday, 10 June 2012

Literary Review, June issue: Children's Round up

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What ho. I've done my summer round up for Literary Review - the June issue is out now, with a beautiful cover featuring Edmund Spense...
Friday, 15 October 2010

The Booker Prize: An Omission

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I'd been meaning to write about the Booker (or the Man Booker as one is meant to call it), but other things have slipped in the way: min...