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First Reported May 12 2012 - Updated May 13 2012 - 1 Documents

Book review: Home

A war veteran?s traumatic journey back to the heart of hurtThe burdens and beatitudes of the past, and how to accommodate their ghosts, inhabit the heartland of Toni Morrison’s body of work. In , her tenth novel, there are allusions to the American Civil ... [ Published May 12 2012 by The Scotsman ]
First Reported May 12 2012 - Updated May 12 2012 - 1 Documents

The Beauty in the Beast, By Hugh Warwick

With The Beauty In The Beast, he expands this basic idea to take on 15 wild creatures and their experts – people who have taken "one or two steps outside the bounds of what most people consider normal". He hopes they will convince him "of the beauty locked ... [ Published May 12 2012 by The Independent ]
First Reported May 05 2012 - Updated May 05 2012 - 1 Documents

Love's Bonfire, By Tom Paulin

Its predecessor, The Road to Inver, was a collection of translations; and translations make their mark here too. The new book makes a set of 15 "poems After Walid Khazendar" its symbolically estranged centrepiece. These versions are no longer concerned ... [ Published May 05 2012 by The Independent ]
First Reported May 04 2012 - Updated May 04 2012 - 1 Documents

Guardian Books podcast: Literature which disrupts reality

In this week's podcast we look at writers whose latest works involve very different literary responses to the extremes of the contemporary world.The Indian poet and librettist Jeet Thayil makes his fiction debut with a novel which tracks the descent of ... [ Published May 04 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
First Reported May 01 2012 - Updated May 01 2012 - 1 Documents

Overcoming war

Some war veterans slip back into civilian life with reasonable ease, stiff of limb, stiff of upper lip. If at first it’s a case of concealment and self-restraint, there’s at least some chance that play-acting can infiltrate reality. The protagonist of ... [ Published May 01 2012 by Spectator ]
First Reported Apr 27 2012 - Updated Apr 27 2012 - 1 Documents

An innocent experiment

Francesca Segal: ‘I recognised that world’To acknowledge that antisemitism was in keeping with Edith Wharton's generation (this year sees the 150th anniversary of her birth) is not to dismiss or excuse it. There have always been others who have managed ... [ Published Apr 27 2012 by Jewish Chronicle ]
First Reported Apr 27 2012 - Updated Apr 27 2012 - 1 Documents

When the void is so overwhelming

Reader rating:None yet. Being in a state of grief after the death of a loved one is like having a large, charmless animal living in the house. It eats up your resources, it makes a mess and sometimes it bites you on the face. There is nothing to be done ... [ Published Apr 27 2012 by Melbourne Age ]
First Reported Apr 19 2012 - Updated Apr 19 2012 - 1 Documents

Irish poet Bernard O'Donoghue to deliver Canisius College's annual Hassett Reading

Bernard O' Donoghue, a leading figure in both contemporary Irish poetry and Anglo-Saxon literature scholarship, will deliver the Canisius College Contemporary Writers Series' ninth annual Hassett Reading tonight (Thursday) at 7 p.m. at the Montante Cultural ... [ Published Apr 19 2012 by Buffalo News ]
First Reported Apr 18 2012 - Updated Apr 19 2012 - 1 Documents

The Country Of Ice Cream Star - Bold New Novel From Guardian First Book Award Finalist Sandra Newman

From Guardian First Book Award finalist Sandra Newman, comes the extraordinary new novel The Country of Ice Cream Star. Conceived in the tradition of such bold literary crossover fiction as The Passage, this breathtakingly ambitious novel is both a post-apocalyptic ... [ Published Apr 18 2012 by Booktrade - Book2Book ]
First Reported Apr 13 2012 - Updated Apr 13 2012 - 1 Documents

Book Of A Lifetime: Wise Blood, By Flannery O'Connor

Motes's world was not mine but I got my bearings in Taulkinham, Tennessee - the City Forest Park with its bath house and FROSTY BOTTLE hotdog stand, the used car lots and yellow clapboard houses, the centre ablaze with glary lights on a Thursday evening ... [ Published Apr 13 2012 by The Independent ]
First Reported Apr 13 2012 - Updated Apr 13 2012 - 1 Documents

The Beginner's Goodbye

ANNE TYLERS latest book is more a novella than a full-blown novel but as might be expected from this remarkable chronicler of American suburban life, even when she presents a slender offering it packs a punch well above its weight.The book is characterised ... [ Published Apr 13 2012 by Scottish Daily Express ]
First Reported Apr 04 2012 - Updated Apr 04 2012 - 1 Documents

The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler: review

welcomes the insight and humour of Anne Tyler. The first sentence of The Beginners Goodbye reads: The strangest thing about my wifes return from the dead was how other people reacted. Among Anne Tylers ever-growing legions of devoted readers, such an ... [ Published Apr 04 2012 by Telegraph ]

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William Hill spokesman, Graham Sharpe, commented that "despite having dramatically varying themes, it is very difficult to differentiate between three brilliant debut novels" , but gave Rachel Joyce a narrow lead with the following odds:
NoViolet's story 'Hitting Budapest' won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing and was selected for the Boston Review by Junot Diaz who commented, "I knew this writer was going to blow up. Her honesty, her voice, her formidable command of her craftall were apparent from the first page." NoViolet has also been shortlisted for the 2009 SA PEN Studzinsi Award, and her work has appeared in Callaloo, the Boston Review, Newsweek and the Warwick...

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Shortlist Announced For Desmond Elliott Prize [ Published May 24 2012 by Booktrade - Book2Book ]
Chatto Acquire Thrilling Debut From 2011 Caine ... [ Published May 18 2012 by Booktrade - Book2Book ]
The Beauty in the Beast, By Hugh Warwick [ Published May 12 2012 by The Independent ]
Book review: Home [ Published May 12 2012 by The Scotsman ]
From Trainee To Triumph: Kim Scott Walwyn Prize... [ Published May 10 2012 by Booktrade - Book2Book ]
Love's Bonfire, By Tom Paulin [ Published May 05 2012 by The Independent ]
Guardian Books podcast: Literature which disrup... [ Published May 04 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
Overcoming war [ Published May 01 2012 by Spectator ]
An innocent experiment [ Published Apr 27 2012 by Jewish Chronicle ]
When the void is so overwhelming [ Published Apr 27 2012 by Melbourne Age ]
Bookshelf – The perplexing but intriguing enigm... [ Published Apr 26 2012 by The Tuam Herald ]
Irish poet Bernard O'Donoghue to deliver Canisi... [ Published Apr 19 2012 by Buffalo News ]
Four Female Publishers With A Strong Future Ahe... [ Published Apr 19 2012 by Booktrade - Book2Book ]
The Country Of Ice Cream Star - Bold New Novel ... [ Published Apr 18 2012 by Booktrade - Book2Book ]
Toni Morrison: 'I want to feel what I feel. Eve... [ Published Apr 13 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
Book Of A Lifetime: Wise Blood, By Flannery O'C... [ Published Apr 13 2012 by The Independent ]
The Beginner's Goodbye [ Published Apr 13 2012 by Scottish Daily Express ]
Magical realist [ Published Apr 05 2012 by Gulf News ]
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler: review [ Published Apr 04 2012 by Telegraph ]
Noughties by Ben Masters – review [ Published Mar 30 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
Crime roundup – reviews [ Published Mar 16 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
Sylvia Townsend Warner: the neglected writer [ Published Mar 02 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
Science fiction roundup – reviews [ Published Mar 02 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd – review [ Published Feb 22 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
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