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Tuesday 12th January 2010

Twilight Descends

My name is Vicky and I like the Twilight series. And Harry Potter for that matter, very much. As mundane a confession as this appears, I see it as a valid precaution: that’s right Twilight fans, you can put down your pitchforks and flaming torches now. Perhaps I…

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Wednesday 11th November 2009

Booker Prize Review- ‘Summertime’ by J. M. Coetzee

J. M. Coetzee must feel rather blasé about being on the Booker shortlist; he has been nominated a total of 5 times, as well as being the first author to win it twice, for his novels ‘The Life and Times of Michael K’ and ‘Disgrace’. He lost out…

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Wednesday 11th November 2009

Booker Prize Review- ‘The Children’s Book’ by A.S. Byatt

At nearly 700 pages ‘The Children’s Book’ is a mammoth novel. Spanning a quarter of a century from 1895 to the end of World War One it charts the lives of two families, the Wellwoods and the Fludds, artistic and literary and full of rich Edwardian social ideas.…

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Thursday 2nd July 2009

Review: Roberto Bolaño’s “2666″

There’s already a myth about Roberto Bolaño. It’s anti-Pinochet agitation, strife in the desert, and morphine, amongst other things. The photos they’re now putting on the dust jackets of his novels show him as a man with a well-furrowed brow, a high hairline, and more often than not…

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Monday 8th June 2009

Book Review: Shakespeare by Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson gives an inevitably wry and witty account of the life of one of the most significant literary figures in history, taking the reader on a chronological whistle-stop tour through the life and world of Shakespeare. This was a biography so entertaining that it refused to budge…

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Monday 2nd February 2009

Book Reviews

At this time of year who feels like going out? Far more sensible to curl up in bed with a gripping read, so here are two quirky new novels that will definitely keep you entertained. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Black Swan Green follows a year-and-a-bit in…

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Monday 2nd February 2009

The Book Which Changed My Life

Top five, all-time, desert island ways High Fidelity changed me, from least to most important. 1. It’s killed my finances. I used to be a thieving little bastard when it came to music. I guess I still am a fair amount of the time, but the protagonist Rob…

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Sunday 4th November 2007

The Ladies of Grace Adieu – Susan Clarke

A book of adult fairy tales brings with it an implied contract.

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Tuesday 3rd April 2007

What does your MP think? – An interview with Alan Simpson

In a bid to learn more about outgoing South Nottingham MP Alan Simpson, intrepid interviewer Andrew Gibson asks the difficult questions…

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Friday 23rd March 2007

Sarah Waters at Waterstones

On Thursday 15th February, Waterstone’s in Nottingham Broadmarsh was visited by one of the most up-coming authors of this generation, and arguably, also one of the most controversial.

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