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fiction | Faber & Faber   
11 September 2004
Nadeem Aslam
Maps For Lost Lovers
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...
by Robin Norton-Hale
fiction | Faber & Faber   
26 July 2004
Alex Garland
The Coma
A young man wakes from a coma to a world that resembles the one he knows, but which differs from it in nightmarish ways. Alex Garland's strange new...
by Robin Norton-Hale
non-fiction | Jonathan Cape   
26 July 2004
Lynda Schuster
A Burning Hunger
As memories of apartheid recede and South Africa becomes an increasingly stable democracy, books such as this one become ever more important. A...
by Jarad Zimbler
fiction | Vintage   
26 July 2004
Jose Saramago
The Double
Anytime a novelist prefaces his book with a quotation from The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy alarm bells should ring and the reader...
by Jarad Zimbler
fiction | Faber & Faber   
24 July 2004
Andrew Sean Greer
The Confessions of Max Tivoli
It's 1871, and Max Tivoli enters the world, wrinkled and withered, like any normal baby first blinking their way out of the womb. But max is...
by Daisy Foster
non-fiction | British Film Institute   
22 July 2004
Christine Gledhill
Reframing British Cinema, 1918-1928: Between Restraint and Passion
British silent film, since the introduction of sound, has endured a dismal reputation. Kevin Brownlow wrote that British silents never advanced...
by Gareth Buckell
fiction | Penguin   
4 July 2004
Hari Kunzru
Transmission
Does Hari Kunzru get you shelf-cred? His latest book, Transmission, oozes edgy cool.
by Alastair Sooke
fiction | Penguin   
22 June 2004
James Kelman
You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free
If you fancy a rendezvous with a half-cut Begbie, check out the latest Scottish rant novel from Booker prize-shorlisted novelist James Kelman.
by Daisy Foster
non-fiction | Bloomsbury   
21 June 2004
Patrick Neate
Where You're at: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip Hop Planet
Part travelogue, part cultural history, Where You're At sees the journalist and novelist Patrick Neate undertake a journey into hip...
by Masta G
non-fiction | Granta   
21 June 2004
Sarah Churchwell
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe
Find out if Marilyn Monroe was 'truly schizoid'.
by Robin Norton-Hale
fiction | Canongate   
20 June 2004
Steven Sherrill
Visits from the Drowned Girl
Benny Poteat is a watcher. He watches from the sidelines, through car windows, from the safety of his house – but mostly Benny watches from...
by Jarad Zimbler
non-fiction | Thames & Hudson   
20 June 2004
Stefano de Luigi and Martin Amis
Pornoland
Martin Amis and pornography go together like a hand inside a lubed-up, latex glove. Think of the succession of set-piece fantasies in his cocksure...
by Bruno Matthews
non-fiction | Atlantic   
20 June 2004
Louis Barfe
Where Have All the Good Times Gone?: The Rise and Fall of the Record Industry
Who won between Madonna and musical cyber-pirates? And is Richard Branson really a tightwad?
by Ashish Ghadiali
fiction | Vintage   
19 June 2004
Martin Amis
Yellow Dog
How Pornoland inspired Martin Amis' latest novel, Yellow Dog.
by Edward Oates
fiction | Faber and Faber   
5 June 2004
Benjamin Markovits
The Syme Papers
This first novel by Benjamin Markovits signals the arrival of a first-rate talent. The Syme Papers is an academic romance reminiscent of AS...
by Alastair Sooke
non-fiction | Century   
28 May 2004
Jonathan Margolis
O - An Intimate History of the Orgasm
In his socio-anthropological history of man's insatiable appetite for orgasm, Jonathan Margolis evaluates centuries of rather dry academic...
by Isobel Shirlaw
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