Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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Books
The Apple by Michel Faber
Each story in The Apple works - as stories should - as a complete narrative. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Searching for the Secret River by Kate Grenville
A delving portrait into a family history of convicts and chain-gangs. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Saturday's Child by Ray Banks
A Northern England of incest, alcoholism, drug abuse and casual violence Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville
Lilian's Story was Grenville's first novel, recently reissued. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
Kids will love this, adults will pretend they don't but will anyway. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Hollywood by Charles Bukowski
Bukowski combines the clash of creative processes and a business-orientated world with a seedy portrait of 1980s Los Angeles. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007
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Dear Laura: Letters from a Mother to her Daughter
Incites powerful emotions of pain and freedom Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Exit Wounds - Rutu Modan
Mysteries are not entirely solved, the plot is not predictable, and more than one unlikely romance emerges. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Donkey Punch by Ray Banks
his hardboiled writing style has become more poised and confident. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Caledonia's Last Stand by Nat Edwards
This expedition was so monumentally ambitious that its failure bankrupted Scotland. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Agamemnon's Daughter by Ismail Kadare.
There are parallels with societies the world over Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Clubs
Blak Twang - Help Dem Lord/Thumbz Up
With Dubstep and Grime currently acting as the twins tumultuous of London's urban music scene, many outsiders have practically forgotten about the once massive and fruitful London hip-hop scene of which Blak Twang is now something of a veteran Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Craig Smith & The Revenge - CSRV 1
Fans of Smith's other works will no doubt relish the un-rushed funk and flow of these well executed and desirable tracks Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Deportivo Street Team - Street Sevens Part 2
An immediate point of comparison would be early material from The Youngsters on F-Comm, only with a rougher and rawer production aesthetic Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Employee of the Month - The Anomalies
If rumours are to be believed, their live set is even better Read more »| 09 Aug 2007