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Book ReviewsBlue Pills: A Positive Love Story by Frederick Peeters
A Comic-Memoir that reminds readers that being HIV-positive need not
rule out love and happiness Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Book ReviewsAfter River by Donna Milner
Tragedy follows tragedy in quick succession... Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Book ReviewsThe Happiest Man in the World by Alec Wilkinson
It is a little underwhelming that Wilkinson's style is so consistently considered Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Features
Doug Johnstone at Aye Write!
Drug-fuelled punch-ups and seagull massacres anyone? Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
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The Poison That Fascinates by Jennifer Clement
Moves easily through shades of light and dark. Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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The Delegates' Choice by Ian Sansom
Sharp, pacey and full of laugh-out-loud moments Read more »| 05 Feb 2008
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Crap Ghosts by Gavin Inglis
Inglis is blessed with spot-on comic timing Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Come On In! by Charles Bukowski
Mixes bar-room pugnacity with comic irony, tenderness and the quiet pride of a loser made good Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Autofiction by Hitomi Kanehara
Kanehara unravels the story, a dark and affecting Tokyo-set tale, with amazing fluidity Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Features
The Wondrous World of Junot Diaz
A look at what could already be one of the books of the year, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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The Golden Hour Book, by the Forest Cafe Writers.
Fine writing, fine CD attached. What more d'you want? Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Features
Free Books! Or, The Strange Return of Jekyll and Hyde.
Stevenson's skill as a writer is still abundantly clear today Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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100 Favorite Scottish Football Poems, edited by Alistair Findlay.
You'll find Bill Shankly here, 'Football boots in one hand / Football's soul in the other' Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Book ReviewsTree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Has just won the American National Book Award. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Thirty-Three Teeth, by Colin Cotterill
An intriguing blend of mysticism and communism Read more »| 06 Jan 2008