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A Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins | Book review
Scott Hutchins’ debut novel deals with the romantic misadventures of 36-year-old Neill Bassett Jr, recently extricated from his “starter marriage” and grappling with (very) late adolescent bachelorhood in contemporary San Francisco: “The city that never sleeps [Read More]
Alexis Gauthier presents cookbook Vegetronic at his Michelin-starred restaurant
Vegetronic will change the way you think about and cook vegetables and fruit – it’s as simple as that. Michelin-starred chef, MasterChef judge and Saturday Kitchen regular Alexis Gauthier is not a vegetarian, but he knows how to create fabulous recipes where [Read More]
Book review: The Blind Man’s Garden by Nadeem Aslam
It has been 20 years since Nadeem Aslam published his first novel, the Betty Trask award-winning Season of the Rainbirds, after which readers had to wait more than a decade for his second, Maps for Lost Lovers in 2004. The period between his first and second books – [Read More]
Book review: Quiet – The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
In a promotional interview with Amazon.com, Susan Cain compares her decision to write Quiet – a whistle-stop digest of the problems faced by shy people in the loud and brash contemporary US – to Betty Friedan’s publication of The Feminine Mystique 50 years ago. In the [Read More]
Book review: Light Shining in the Forest by Paul Torday
Paul Torday published his first novel in 2006, the international bestseller (and as of 2011 moderately successful film) Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Since then his publishing average has exceeded a novel a year, and, judging by Light Shining in the Forest, his production [Read More]
Event: T S Eliot Prize Award Ceremony at The Wallace Collection
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy took to the stage last night at the 60th Annual T S Eliot Award Ceremony. Hosted in Manchester Square’s The Wallace Collection, the competition, which was set up in 1953, awards £15,000 to the writer of the best book of poetry published [Read More]
Book review: The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
Rowling’s first foray into adult literature has received mixed reviews; some praising her bold exploration of a society ruled by class, while others criticising a brash attempt at realism, covering subjects such as promiscuity, prostitution, rape, drug addiction, child [Read More]
Book review: The Art of Taxidermy by Jane Eastoe
Taxidermy, it is one of those things that many people feel they should find disgusting and so proclaim to do just that. Having dabbled in some taxidermy myself I can assure you, it is no more disgusting than cutting up a chicken for dinner. On a moral level it is [Read More]
Book review: The Dirty Streets of Heaven by Tad Williams
Tad Williams has been writing fantasy since the 1980s and has penned sixteen novels spread over seven series. He is probably most recognised for the critically acclaimed Shadowmarch tetralogy, a far-reaching and original story of a kingdom doomed by tradition that bucked [Read More]
Hilary Mantel wins the 2012 Man Booker Prize
Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker Prize for the second time making her the first female novelist to do so. Receiving the £50,000 prize at last Tuesday’s ceremony, Mantel joked “you wait 20 years and two come along at once”. Hilary Mantel’s first Man Booker prize [Read More]
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