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Paul Auster
Not, as one might expect, the original metaphysical detective story of 1985 (which is old news – but good news). Instead, the tale translated,...
Patrick Neate
Part travelogue, part cultural history, Where You're At sees the journalist and novelist Patrick Neate undertake a journey into hip hop's...
Patrick McGrath
Jack Rathbone's 'malarial' paintings may materialise from the muddy swamps of Port Mungo, the Honduran river town of the title, but it is the...
Orhan Pamuk
You can imagine the Faber editors salivating at the prospect of this book. 'Snow angered Islamists and Westernised Turks alike when it came...
Nell Freudenberger
'Travelling is for people who don't know how to be happy,' observes a character in the second story of Nell Freudenberger's collection. It's a neat...
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein puts consumerism under the spotlight for a close examination of over-the-counter-culture and anti-corporate subversion.
Nadeem Aslam
Nadeem Aslam's second novel Maps For Lost Lovers has just won a place on the Booker Prize longlist, after more than 10 years in the...
Monique Roffey
The trials, tribulations and downright bitchiness of the UK's weather will be no stranger to those of us posted northside of Hastings. And anyone...
Martin Amis
How Pornoland inspired Martin Amis' latest novel, Yellow Dog.
Lynda Schuster
As memories of apartheid recede and South Africa becomes an increasingly stable democracy, books such as this one become ever more important. A...
Louis Barfe
Who won between Madonna and musical cyber-pirates? And is Richard Branson really a tightwad?
Lloyd Bradley
It is unlikely that the full history of ska, rocksteady and reggae music has been so well documented, hand in hand with the history of the black...
Kevin Jackson
Humphrey Jennings (1907-50) has long been recognised as one of Britain's finest filmmakers on the basis of his wartime documentaries, which, for...
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel is clumsy, awkward and often soporifically dull. So why does it feel this mysteriously good?
Judith Evans
Charming and ever so slightly camp, or retreating to the sexism of a bygone era? Judith Evans finds fault with the Iggulden brothers' recent publishing phenomenon.
Jose Saramago
Anytime a novelist prefaces his book with a quotation from The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy alarm bells should ring and the reader...
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