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Monthly Archives: July 2012

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The Godfather: Peter Corris on preserving the papers

July 27, 2012

Malcolm Bradbury was offered a lot of money by an American university for the manuscript of The History Man. He’d …

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FRANCESCA RENDLE-SHORT Bite Your Tongue. Reviewed by Annette Hughes

July 25, 2012

This fictonalised memoir is a book of revelations. Two little girls, sisters, dare each other to touch tongues. I’ve done …

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RACHEL WILLIAMS and PETER WARRINGTON The Stripey Street Cat

July 23, 2012

Cats, Newtown, street art … this charming book has everything. It was my seven-year-old grandson who first spied The Stripey Street …

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The Godfather: Peter Corris on the big word-producers

July 20, 2012

I have published 66 books of fiction and half a dozen non-fiction titles and am called prolific, but I am …

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Crime Scene: ARNALDUR INDRIDASON Black Skies; QUENTIN BATES Cold Comfort

July 17, 2012

Iceland’s economic crash gives texture to two crime novels. Arnaldur Indridason is a well-known and best-selling Icelandic author, many of …

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The Godfather: Peter Corris on the books he re-reads

July 13, 2012

Like most readers, I have favourite books; by that I mean ones I re-read or at least dip into frequently. …

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JANETTE TURNER HOSPITAL Forecast: Turbulence

July 11, 2012

These stories of family trauma find their echoes in the elements. In ‘Moon River’, the chapter of memoir that comes …

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The Godfather: Peter Corris on the decline of the Western

July 6, 2012

We know that video killed the radio star, but what killed the Western genre? Up until the 1960s the Western, …

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ABIGAIL SOLOMON-GODEAU Rosemary Laing. Reviewed by Annette Hughes

July 4, 2012

The art and times of Rosemary Laing. I’m looking at a 100-year-old black and white photograph of a man riding …

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