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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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| | | | | 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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| | | Update 8/12/22: With thanks to Susan Johnson for her Tweet, the winner has been announced. Congratulations to Larissa Behrendt for her novel After Story. The Shortlist for the 2022 Voss Literary Prize has been announced. Titles in bold were shortlisted from the longlist: Michael Mohammed Ahmad, The Other Half of You (Hachette Australia) Larissa Behrendt,... | ||
