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Tuesday 13th May |
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Books in the Media
Brainwashed By The Market: What Drives Naomi Klein? Naomi Klein's critique of 'disaster capitalism' will echo around the world – but its roots lie in a scandal close to her Canadian home
The Grandmother Of Invention Joyce Carol Oates hasn't taken on biography before, but her latest novel's plot closely resembles her secret family history
Leslie Ash: My Life Behaving Badly Leslie Ash was the perky blonde who entranced a generation of TV viewers. But it was her fiery marriage to Lee Chapman, her botched 'trout pout' procedure and near-fatal brush with a hospital superbug which captivated the tabloids
An Author With Bite Alaa al Aswany is that rarest of literary beasts, a bestselling novelist and practising dentist whose patients are essential to his creative process
Clarissa Dickson Wright: 'I Do Like To Bait People' Clarissa Dickson Wright has filled her autobiography with indiscretions - but it is those she chooses not to tell that really intrigue
Node Idea A new science fiction novel is threatening to completely overhaul the way literary criticism is conducted
Why Cult Polish Author Pawel Huelle Thinks He's A Camel Sitting opposite the Polish author Pawel Huelle, I decide he looks every bit like you'd hope a serious writer would: bearded, bespectacled, intense, bohemian in an I-wouldn't-be-seen-dead-in-a-suit kind of a way
Dreda Say Mitchell: The Star Schoolgirl Athlete Who Lept Over Higher Hurdles To Succeed In Crime Fiction When Dreda Say Mitchell announced that she was giving up athletics, there was a stunned silence
'On The Road,' And Jack Kerouac, Still Inspire Young And Old 40 years after his death, and a half century after the release of his most famous novel, "On the Road," Kerouac remains an author who inspires motion.
Pearl Lowe: 'I'm Over Life In London' She used to raise hell in Primrose Hill with husband, and former Supergrass drummer, Danny Goffey. Now she lives nature's way in Hampshire
Charlotte's New Book Reveals Highs And Lows With a celebrity lifestyle and a rugby star for a boyfriend, Charlotte Church is about as glamorous as Wales gets
Atonement One of the great hopes of British cinema has opened the 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival with a bold assault on Ian McEwan's novel Atonement
Mother Teresa's Struggle To Find God Revealed In New Book Mother Teresa's hidden faith struggle is to be laid bare in a book that shows she felt alone and separated from God
Old Scores Haunted by Munich, at odds with his brother but still in love with the beautiful game, in his new book Sir Bobby Charlton talks frankly about family, Manchester United and Beckham
Joyce Carol Oates: A Teacher, Academic And One Of The Most Prodigious Novelists Of All Time She tells Katy Guest why her biggest fear is developing a headache
Pattie Boyd: Rock's Stepford Wife She married two Sixties legends and inspired three of the era's greatest love songs. But Pattie Boyd's life in the most famous love triangle in rock was far from glamorous
What A Turn-up There's no room for politics and satire in Jonathan Coe's new novel of family and female friendship. He explains why it's been such a long time coming
The Secret History Of The Nazi Mascot Alex Kurzem came to Australia in 1949 carrying just a small brown briefcase, but weighed down by some harrowing psychological and emotional baggage
A Revolution In His Head In his latest novel, Hari Kunzru explores the violent atmosphere of 1960s London. But he tells Helen Rumbelow, his own views are not so much incendiary as inconsistent
On Fire With Desire The year is 1900, when a manuscript about gay love is so incendiary it must go up in flames. That's the premise of Edmund White's feverish new novel, which he discusses over iced tea at home in New York
Space To Think - William Gibson Interviewed The fantasy worlds of his bestselling Eighties novels were uncannily prophetic, but where does the sci-fi writer go for inspiration when the future catches up on us? More than 20 years after he coined the term 'cyberspace', he talks to Tim Adams about the shape of things that came to pass
The writers who find there's no place like home Many authors are snubbed in their native countries
Rendell's Darker Side Barry Forshaw, editor of Crime Time magazine, considers the dark, troubling vision of Ruth Rendell - and her radical approach to realising it
Work That Old Black Magic Nick Stone set his debut noir thriller in the Haiti of his childhood, and his prequel continues the voodoo theme
Interview: Norman Stone Legendary teacher, Thatcher adviser, hero of fiction, exiled maverick, Norman Stone is a great maker of enemies |
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