'My Son, The Bastard'
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Michel Houellebecq's mother, foul-mouthed Lucie Ceccaldi, 83, grants her first British interview

The Stories Of Our Lives
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Carmen Callil set up Virago to publish books that celebrated women - and dreamt of shelves of green paperbacks all over the world

Living In Poverty, The Man Who 'Found' Hitler's Diaries
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A quarter of a century ago, a German reporter called Gerd Heidemann shocked the world when he claimed he had unearthed the diaries of Adolf Hitler

Is The Arab World Ready For A Literary Revolution?
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It's been published in 38 countries, translated into 42 languages, turned into an Oscar-nominated movie – and sold more than 10 million copies. The haunting tale of The Kite Runner has become one of the publishing industry's greatest success stories. Now the search is on for the next big thing to come from the East

Virago Modern Classics Celebrates 30 Years Of Publishing
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Who would have thought a series of novels by obscure women writers could have caused such a sensation when it was published in the late 1970s?

The Fantastic Appeal Of Fantasy
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The more rational the world gets, the more we demand the irrational in our fiction