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Rutu Modan keeps it in the family
The Israeli artist talks frankly about the characters behind her latest comic book, The Property…
Food
Hot 'n' fresh out the kitchen: the best hip hop cookbooks.
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Man Booker longlist gets royal baby twist
Jim Crace, Jhumpa Lahiri and Tash Aw are among the authors to have made the 13-strong Man Booker Prize longlist.…
Daisy Waugh: Being a mum is difficult
Author Daisy Waugh’s latest book, I Don’t Know Why She Bothers, looks at what’s wrong with modern motherhood…
Life & Style
Rowling 'angry' at law firm over pseudonym leak
Harry Potter author J.K Rowling has revealed her anger with the law firm who leaked the pseudonym under which she penned her recent crime novel…
Food
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A drama out of a crisis
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We may all live in changing times, but we still love our nursery rhymes
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JK Rowling secret crime novel sales rocket
JK Rowling's crime novel debut has gone on to top sales charts after it emerged that she had written it under a false name to…
JK Rowling writes crime novel under fake name
JK Rowling has admitted secretly writing a crime novel using a fake name…
The Fun Parts, Russian Stories and The Pre-War House
Reviews of short stories including the funny and merciless Sam Lipsyte in The Fun Parts and 21 playful tales by five imaginary authors in Russian…
Live the American scream
Philipp Meyer’s ‘trilogy’ pursues one family through three troubling eras of US history…
On my e-reader with Kerry Hudson
The author reveals the contents of her e-reader and looks forward to the nuanced tales by Leonard Cohen in Beautiful Losers…
Author Adele Parks: A woman's woman
Parks has written 13 novels. Her latest, The State We’re In, is about two strangers who meet while travelling.…
Life & Style
Katie Price: My appeal is I’m honest
The former glamour model talks to Andrew Williams about business, babies and, erm, stress boobs
Author James Kelman: Tillie Olsen is a hero
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Logging out of life via the net
Lottie Moggach’s debut novel explores the pitfalls of living our lives and communicating through the internet…
Shelf space: travel books to try
A British expatriate living in Italy, Tim Parks has mined a rich sub-genre of books on his adopted country, exploring its language (An Italian Education…
Food
From couscous to quinoa in Ghillie James's Amazing Grains
An entire book about grains? Sounds a bit ... wholesome…
UK
Rhyming whodunnit hits the right note with judges
For one our greatest literary figures, no end could be worse. But Christopher Marlowe's violent death is a prize novel – set to verse. Ros…
A universe of big ideas
Matt Suddain’s story of transuniversal travel is rich and clever, if a little look-at-me
Shelf space: Eurocrime novels to try
There’s never been a better time to expand your crime horizons, as the English-language debut of these three European authors shows…
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The author of the Max Cámara novels shares what’s on his ereader at the moment
Master of the mysterious
Christopher Priest’s novel transcends genres to offer a mysterious vision of the future…
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