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www.davidsbookworld.com
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| | | | | I was really pleased to learn that Han Kang had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday. She has become one of my favourite writers that I've discovered during the lifetime of th... | |
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lizzysiddal.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Translated from German by Basil Creighton The success of Grand Hotel (published 1929) enabled Vicki Baum, who saw what was coming to Europe, to move her family permanently to Hollywood in 1932. Thus she was free to roam the world, when even Hollywood became too claustrophobic. ("Fifty people were using my toothbrush", was how she... | |
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readingmattersblog.com
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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Flamingo; 176 pages; 2003. First published in 1970, Paula Fox'sDesperate Characters has recently been "rediscovered" and much acclaimed by the literary elite (in the introduction to this edition, Jonathan Franzen says that when he first read the book in 1991 he "fell in love with it. It seemed to me obviously superior... | |
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theasylum.wordpress.com
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| | | Having acquired, via the wonders of online marketplaces, copies of all of Brian Moore's books recently - over half are out of print - I thought it was time to return to his 1955 debut, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne. It remains his most famous book, even though the over-explanatory title was added only... | ||
