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fiction | PIcador   
3 May 2004
Nell Freudenberger
Lucky Girls
'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...
by Sophie Elmhirst
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
non-fiction | Nicholas Brealey Publishing   
12 June 2007
Henry Hemming
Misadventure in the Middle East
Two young artists take an expansive tour of the Middle East in Henry Hemming's first book.
by Judith Evans
non-fiction | Caipirinha Productions Inc   
1 February 2001
Edited by Peter Shapiro
Modulations: A History of Electronic Music - Throbbing Words on Sound
In 1998 a documentary feature film was released by a small production company in New York that quickly became the most essential viewing for anyone...
by Kate Butler
non-fiction | Atlantic   
11 May 2004
Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Rob Sitch
Molvania - A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry
The undeveloped backwater that has escaped infestation by jaded backpackers and tedious soul-searching students clutching the contents of their...
by Masta G
fiction | Faber & Faber   
12 May 2005
Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel is clumsy, awkward and often soporifically dull. So why does it feel this mysteriously good?
by Sophie Elmhirst
non-fiction | Flamingo   
1 March 2000
Naomi Klein
No Logo
Naomi Klein puts consumerism under the spotlight for a close examination of over-the-counter-culture and anti-corporate subversion.
by SZA
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
fiction | Abacus   
23 September 2004
David Foster Wallace
Oblivion: Stories
There is something about David Foster Wallace's new collection of short stories, Oblivion, that is irritating to the point of distraction....
by Sophie Elmhirst
non-fiction | Harmony   
30 June 2001
Stuart Walton
Out Of It - A Cultural History of Intoxication
In recent times of drugs seasons, exclusives and general moral panic, Stuart Walton delivers a thought-provoking and highly readable account of the...
by Kirsty Matthewson
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
fiction | Bloomsbury   
25 May 2004
Patrick McGrath
Port Mungo
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...
by Katharine Begg
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 | Vintage   
28 March 2005
Ian McEwan
Saturday
Reason and unreason collide in McEwan's fine new thriller.
by Max Leonard
fiction | Dell   
1 March 2000
Robert Anton Wilson
Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy
The ageing American oddity known as Robert Anton Wilson is perhaps best known for the Illuminatus trilogy which he co-wrote with Robert...
by Discord
fiction | Faber and Faber   
25 May 2004
Orhan Pamuk
Snow
You can imagine the Faber editors salivating at the prospect of this book. 'Snow angered Islamists and Westernised Turks alike when it came...
by Sophie Elmhirst
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