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To Hell With Publishing’s First Novels puts out its first novel, Grant Gillespie’s The Cuckoo Boy

3rd June 2010

London’s new indie publishing house To Hell With Publishing has taken it’s first big step with its little loaded slingshot in hand. 2010 saw them launch To Hell With...

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Yann Martel returns with his third novel, Beatrice and Virgil

20th May 2010

Allegorical and centred around our understanding of the holocaust, Beatrice & Virgil focuses on the story of a novelist that receives a manuscript...

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The lost Man Booker prize will award the best omitted novel of 1971 retrospectively

9th May 2010

Back in 1971, the Man Booker Prize was just two years old. P.H. Newby and Bernice Rubens had won the first two, but in the build up to the third prize the rules were changed...

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Francis Stoner Saunders looks at the life of would be assassin Violet Gibson in her new book, The women who shot Mussolini

21st March 2010

In 1926, Violet, the daughter of Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, managed to fire straight at Mussolini in Rome, hitting him in the nose...

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Faber Finds republishes Jan Patersen’s Our street, the book he smuggled out of Nazi Germany in a fruit cake

23rd Feb 2010

An account of left wing resistance to Nazism in Berlin between January 1933, just before Adolph Hitler’s ascension to Chancellor, and June 1934, the initial period of the Nazi government’s reign over Germany...

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Bill Bryson gets back on the science history trail with Seeing further: The history of science at the Royal Academy

10th Jan 2010

Since 1660 when the Royal Academy was founded after hearing a young Christopher Wren lecture on astronomy at the the Gresham College in...

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Stephen King announces sequel to The Shining

23rd Dec 2009

The news that King is putting together the plot for the sequel to his 1977 original is the kick up the rosy cheeks that I need...

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