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Web Comic - Malkatraz
We don't need another hero... really Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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Heir to Gormenghast [SKINNYFest Issue 2]
SF: Sebastian Peake talks about his father's life and work
PQ: Sixty years since Titus Groan was first published, Mervyn Peake remains one of the most original and underappreciated writers and artists of the 20th Century. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Heir to Gormenghast [SKINNYFest 1
SF: Sebastian Peake talks about his father's life and work
PQ: Sixty years since Titus Groan was first published, Mervyn Peake remains one of the most original and underappreciated writers and artists of the 20th Century. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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District and Circle - Seamus Heaney [SKINNYFest 4]
Seamus Heaney exposes the immense fragility of our daily existence Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Banipal Live [Skinnyfest]
Discover the rich and diverse world of Arab writing with four of the finest Arab writers working in English. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Pure Dead Brilliant, By The Way [SKINNYFEST 3] [PRINT VERSION]
I was this zonked-out hippie trying to write poetry and figure out what was going on in the universe. This guy's out there starting the revolution and making a million pounds and losing it and making another million pounds. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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The Dangerous Words of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o [SKINNYFest 4]
A dictator fears people who think for themselves. So when you get the ordinary, working people no longer singing about the leader but singing about themselves - what they have done in history, what they can do; what they have done before, what they can do again àthat kind of awareness can make a dictator nervous. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Book Ahead! [SKINNYFEST]
Festival director Catherine Lockerbie gives us the skinny on the festival and reveals her top picks of 2006. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Christopher Brookmyre's Blood and Hard Black Pencil
You know, the psychos in your school? At the time you were just used to them being violent and unpredictable. Later you go back and ask what was going on in the background that nobody knew about? Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Christopher Brookmyre's Blood and Hard Black Pencil - Skinnyfest)
You know, the psychos in your school? At the time you were just used to them being violent and unpredictable. Later you go back and ask what was going on in the background that nobody knew about? Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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The Road to Reality - Roger Penrose
Shelve this one next to the Bible. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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The Man With the Silver Tongue
People did not take machetes and start cutting other people into pieces overnight. There's a kind of hatred between Hutus and Tutsis that has been developed through our history. The international community does not want to see it that way, even now. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Choose Your Own Adventure
If you want to learn about the re-release of the Choose Your Own Adventure books keep reading. If you want to read the local entertainment listings, turn to page 64. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Writer as Illusionist: Louise Welsh on her new novel
The Bullet Trick' has the thrills and perils of crime stories and the sensuality and glamour of decadent literature, all spiced up by the burlesque irreverence of cabaret. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Everything is Automatic
I don't know who did it kid. All I know is there's a gun with no trace, a camera with no film and a body that aint talking. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006