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14th March 2012
Aha! Kiss my face. Mmhh. With typical self aggrandising North Norfolk wit, Alan Partridge is back in the paperback release of I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan. With the hardback release...
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The Hay Festival celebrates it's silver jubilee in 2012
2nd March 2012
Back in the heady heat of late 80s, the Hay Festival was created pretty much out of nothing more than ingenuity and a congregation around a kitchen table, according the Hay Festival website...
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25th February 2012
It's easily one of the most eye catching front covers in literature in recent years and by the sound of things, it's not the only thing that's attention grabbing about the...
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13th February 2012
With three previous outings in the Thora Gudmundsdottir, Yrsa Sigurdardottir’s The Day Is Dark paperback release will come as a welcome return for its fans...
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The Secret Life of William Shakespeare by Judy Morgan
20th January 2012
When you think of a hardback book about the secret life of William Shakespeare you first imagine that it’s going to be a historical book of factual proportions...
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Terry Pratchett's Snuff paperback release
6th January 2012
Terry Pratchett's latest Discworld novel, Snuff, has been confirmed for paperback release on the 7th June 2012, just in time for sunshine reading. Pratchett's 39th...
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20th December 2011
Jodi Picoult takes on the drama of life support in her new novel, Lone Wolf. With a dysfunctional family setting, Lone Wolf looks at the moral dilemma behind the...
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9th December 2011
The Psychopath Test by Jon Robson brings the scope of the general madness of society to paperback, as he investigates the nature of the illness, how it is...
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1st December 2011
Never before published, Jack Kerouac’s The Sea is my Brother has recently been released on Penguin Books. The handwritten manuscript for the book was originally penned...
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7th November 2011
Back in the 90s, before Dan Brown and Stieg Larsson, popular literature thrillers were dominated by the brilliance of Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park, Congo and...
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19th October 2011
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 long-list was announced on the 26th July 2011 with a strong pack of writers. When the shortlist took the...
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10th September 2011
A brilliantly staunched and outspoken defender of science and the principles of scientific discover, Richard Dawkins is the undisputed champion of...
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The Man Booker Prize 2011 longlist
11th August 2011
The drama of The Man Booker Prize is almost as palpable as that in the books that it features and the 2011 longlist is no exception. Featuring 13 books...
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29th July 2011
Back with a new entry in a long line of genius Discworld novels, Terry Pratchett returns to city watch commander, Sam Vimes, in Snuff, just in time for...
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3rd June 2011
There's some that massively appeals to me about One Steppe Beyond, Across Russia in a VW Camper Van by Tom Wheeler. I think it all stems from...
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15th May 2011
There's no need to ask yourself what would life be like under a totalitarian regime, to be culturally and artistically oppressed to such an extent...
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28th April 2011
With comic book stories like Batman, Superman and the upcoming Green Lantern movie hitting the big screen in all their spandex wonder for a good ...
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25th March 2011
Dave Gorman’s been sort of quiet since he first brought his comedy PowerPoint style of stand-up to the tele with Are You Dave Gorman, but his return with...
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12th March 2011
It sort of looks like Howard Marks (Mr Nice Guy) can turn his hand to anything, drug dealing, writing autobiographies, guest starring on Never Mind the Buzzcocks...
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
I'm always getting told that my memory is atrocious, and to be fair there's definitely a lot of anecdotal evidence to back up the claims so the news of Joshua Foer's...
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The Tiger’s Wife, by Tea Obreht
The last book I read with a tiger in it was The Life of Pi and that went on to become a massive hit and a modern classic in its own right, so will Tea Obreht get the same...
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Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There by Professor Richard Wiseman
Sadly, I'm the kind of guy who wholeheartedly buys into the reality of Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion, but will bizarrely choose...
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Get ready for surreal complexities from Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami with the release of his new work 1Q84 set for an English edition to be released in...
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Monsieur Pamplemousse and the French Solution, by Michael Bond, comes to paperback
23rd November 2010
I was pretty confused by this. Michael Bond’s the dude that wrote all of the Paddington Bear books, so finding out that he has also been busily writing bat face crazy books...
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I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Punk Rock Family Memoir, Mickey Leigh
10th November 2010
The title, I Slept with Joey Ramone, is class and on first hearing it I thought it would be a witty kiss and tell story by a former Joey Ramone love interest. However...
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The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 Shortlist
23rd September 2010
With the lost Man Booker Prize (1970) going to J G Farrell for Troubles, attention is firmly back onto the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010. With the prize down to...
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Tony Blair’s A Journey takes the former PM to the top once again
4th September 2010
Having preluded the release of his new book, A Journey, with a reintroduction to the British media, Tony Blair has shot to the top of best-sellers lists...
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16th Aug 2010
If you've ever seen one of the James Bond films you've probably been caught up in the intrigue of the MI6. However, the reality is that most of us know very little about...
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I Shall Wear Midnight - Terry Pratchett returns to the Discworld with Tiffany Aching
1st Aug 2010
With three Discworld novels starring the teen witch Tiffany Aching under his belt already, and a new one, I Shall Wear Midnight, on the way, Terry Pratchett has...
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