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Between The Covers: 10/07/2011

Sunday, 10 July 2011

Your weekly guide to what's really going on in the world of books

Cultural Life: Joanna Briscoe, novelist

Friday, 8 July 2011

Book Of A Lifetime: Charlotte's Web, By EB White

Friday, 8 July 2011

I was a child who loved reading. I was crazy for the world of books, a world I felt was much more exciting than the one I actually lived in. To have some of the thrill of story, I would try and put myself in the way of adventure in my "real" life. Usually this involved riding my bike around the neighbourhood, or squelching through the pond opposite my house. For a long stretch of days one summer, I stood at the window of my bedroom, notebook in hand, looking for suspicious people to document. I made my little brother stand with me, as my assistant. His job was to look up the street while I looked down.

One Minute With: Tom Rob Smith, novelist

Friday, 8 July 2011

New stars of Nordic noir: Norway's authors discuss their country's crime wave

Friday, 8 July 2011

This summer's hottest mysteries are arriving from cool Norway.

Boyd Tonkin: Green poetry with avant-gardeners

Friday, 8 July 2011

The week in books

The 10 best sports books

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Even if you only have a passing interest in football, cricket or the two-man bobsleigh, these action-packed tomes are sure to hold your attention

The Reading List: Grammar

Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Non-fiction

Super refit: Superman gets another makeover

Monday, 4 July 2011

Phil Boucher: Whether fighting Hitler or giving up US citizenship, Superman is an ever-evolving character.

Margaret Drabble: The original angry young woman

Sunday, 3 July 2011

A career-spanning collection of Margaret Drabble's short stories reveals a surprisingly steely former self, she tells Andrew Johnson

Invisible Ink: No 84 - Michael Arlen

Sunday, 3 July 2011

'For King and cocktails!" cries Marley, the aristocrat whose futile life is dissected in the novel Piracy.

The Blagger's Guide To...Samuel Johnson

Sunday, 3 July 2011

Ten pages of quotes, but none about oranges

Harry Potter: The boy who transformed Britain for ever

Sunday, 3 July 2011

As the final film is premiered this week, Kate Youde examines the legacy of J K Rowling's wizard.

Between The Covers: 03/07/2011

Sunday, 3 July 2011

Your weekly guide to what's really going on inside the world of books

The Harry Potter phenomenon

Sunday, 3 July 2011

Kate Youde: Improved literacy, a boost to the UK film industry, more tourism – it's all down to the boy wizard.

One Minute With: Colm Tóibín, novelist, essayist and literary critic

Friday, 1 July 2011

Literary lure of the sea: Philip Marsden explores the global connections of his home in Cornwall

Friday, 1 July 2011

Many writers love out-of-the-way retreats, but few make themselves quite as – apparently – scarce as Philip Marsden does now. Turn off one of the steep-hedged lanes that thread through the Roseland peninsula in west Cornwall, and almost a mile of rough track takes you down to an early-Victorian farmhouse that itself stands on the site of a medieval manor. Swifts wheel above; a lone pheasant gazes curiously at two humans sitting at an outside table; silence reigns. Seen from the land, this isolation seems complete. But the terrestrial is not the only view. For these grounds slope down through tangled growth to an inlet – one of many tiny capillaries into which the huge body of the Fal estuary narrows – and an old landing-stage. When the winds and tides concur, Marsden can take his boat moored there, sail downriver into the Carrick Roads and - as he writes in his new book – "point the bows south towards the flat horizon, and the open sea".

Boyd Tonkin: Marathon authors run for their lives

Friday, 1 July 2011

The week in books

Book trailer: 'You' by Joanna Briscoe

Thursday, 30 June 2011

Book trailer of 'You' by Joanna Briscoe.

The Reading List: Strikes

Monday, 27 June 2011

ClassicIn Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck, Penguin Modern Classics �14.99Steinbeck's novel about politics and labour in the United States, In Dubious Battle, is set in California apple farming country, where a strike by migrant workers spirals out of control, becoming a bloody clash of ideologies.