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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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| | | | | The papers are already full of the books of 2009. That's far too soon for me as I have a lot of reading left to do. PlusI won't belimiting the selection ofmy best books of 2009 to those published this year. What I can do,however,is produceLizzy's Best Fiction of the Noughties. Not such a difficult... | |
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| | | | | If I were to rank the books I've read during the lifetime of this blog (and there are over 500 of them) in order of enjoyment, Eleanor Catton's The Rehearsal(2008) would be right at the top of the list. I bought it on a whim, knowing nothing about it; I was nearly put off by... | |
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| | | Fiction - paperback; Canongate; 320 pages; 2004. A couple of years ago I read MJ Hyland's Booker Prize shortlisted novel, Carry Me Down, which I greatly admired. Her ability to get inside the head of a disturbed 11-year-old boy was nothing short of extraordinary.Her debut novel, How the Light Gets In -- written two years... | ||
