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Bob Dylan
A perfect coffee-table book for anyone who agrees that Dylan's canon of lyrics constitutes some of the most important poetry of the last half-century.
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,...
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...
Peter Carey
Wrong About Japan is something of an oddity and, given that it comes from the pen of a double Booker prize-winning novelist, a bit of a...
Ian McEwan
Reason and unreason collide in McEwan's fine new thriller.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel is clumsy, awkward and often soporifically dull. So why does it feel this mysteriously good?
Jonathon Safran Foer
Difficult second novel syndrome? This sophomore effort isn't quite the great American novel, but Foer should keep trying...
William Eckersley and Alexander Shields
Self-publishers William Eckersley and Alexander Shields reveal the capital’s ragged edges and stale secrets.
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.
Henry Hemming
Two young artists take an expansive tour of the Middle East in Henry Hemming's first book.
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