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Great escapes Summer reading: Kathryn Hughes picks the new books that will take you to faraway places Summer fiction Summer classics More summer picks |
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Brutal beginnings Tobias Wolff: 'I hate cruelty. I hate a bully ... There's something in my president, that hectoring way, that reminds me of my stepfather' |
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Portrait of a lady Did Robert Browning do away with Elizabeth Barrett? Elizabeth Lowry looks to his dramatic monologue 'My Last Duchess' for clues My Last Duchess by Robert Browning (extract) |
New writing success for Salman Rushdie
July 18: The bookshop trestle table clearly ain't big enough for both of the authors claiming a book signing record
Salman Rushdie: My signing rate is bigger than yours
Theakston's Crime award goes to mainstream first novel
July 18: Crime novel panel breaks the wall between genre and mainstream fiction by rewarding Costa winner Stef Penny
Kay Ryan named US poet laureate
July 17: A quiet writer of compressed poetry has been given America's top honour for poets
China sex blogger releases book
July 17: Blogger chronicling sexual adventures in China reveals identity in new book
Clare Wigfall wins BBC National Short Story award
July 16: The Numbers, an eerie tale of a remote Scottish island, has added £15,000 to Wigfall's bank balance
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher wins Samuel Johnson prize
July 15: Kate Summerscale's book of murder and melodrama takes the £30,000 non-fiction award
Audio: 'I'm dazed and amazed'
More on the Samuel Johnson prize
'Nobody knew it existed'
July 15: A Mexican actor plans to film Frontera, a long-lost Gabriel García Márquez screenplay
Obituary: Chingiz Aitmatov
July 15: A Kyrgyz writer, his books were translated into 150 languages
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Devlish tricks Mikhail Bulgakov's classic The Master and Margarita has been reborn as a graphic novel. See what happened the day Satan came to Moscow |
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Iain Banks on The Wasp Factory Book club podcast: Iain Banks speaks to John Mullan about his novel The Wasp Factory and takes questions from the audience at the Guardian book club More podcasts |
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Out of this world Iain Banks on how practising with SF led to The Wasp Factory Week two: Ignoble savages Week one: Explanation More from the Guardian book club |
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Kate Clanchy's workshop She would like you to write a letter-poem to someone you've lost, in celebration of the ineffable greatness of Leonard Cohen Previous poetry workshops |
One more for the road
Review: Divine Magnetic Lands by Timothy O'Grady
Timothy O'Grady covers political and cultural ground on his trip through the States. By Chris Petit
Pack a punch
Nothing can beat a classic when you're on the beach, says Nicholas Lezard
Dancer from the dance
Review: The Return by Victoria Hislop
A tale of flamenco, family and passion is played out in modern-day and 1930s Spain. By Rachel Hore
Aga saga
Review: Shire Hell by Rachel Johnson
Hadley Freeman checks out the labels in a send-up of the urban-exile set
Chasing a cure
Paperback non-fiction: PD Smith, Victoria Segal and Vera Rule on The Invisible Cure | Naked Airport | When You Are Engulfed in Flames | Rebel, Rebel: The Protestor's Handbook | Going to Extremes
Byron's bear and other tales
Review: The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain and Ireland, edited by Daniel Hahn and Nicholas Robins
Sam Jordison enjoys tramping around the country in pursuit of writers dead and alive
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Gosling
The digested read: One of my goals is to share what I've learned about my special brand of voyeurism, which I have named snoopology to differentiate it from complete guesswork and stating the blindingly obvious
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Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The digested classic: It had been several weeks since Margaret had taken an overdose of sleeping pills after Catchpole had left her, and Jim was feeling guilty that he hadn't been to visit her before
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