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A Freewheelin' Time - Suze Rotolo
Suze Rotolo was Bob Dylan's first love: she's the pretty blonde huddling up to him on the cover of his second ...
X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker - Alex Cox
As much an account of the high price of integrity as a memoir, onetime enfant terrible Alex Cox's highly ...
Voice Over by Céline Curiol
Sex, philosophy and public transportation merge in strange ways in the debut novel by French journalist ...
Beijing by Foot by Eric Abrahamsen
Although not technically a book per se, Beijing By Foot is quite possibly the most illuminating guide to ...
Liver by Will Self
This inspired collection of four stories uses the liver as framework and controlling metaphor - there's ...
The Jive Talker by Samson Kambalu
Unlike most memoirists' published sufferings, the hardships that native Malawian conceptual artist ...
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery & Alison Anderson
The two main characters in Muriel Barbery's novel have a tendency to ponder lofty issues: "What is the nature ...
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson made a name for himself as a cyberpunk soothsayer, writing best-selling speculative ...
Occupational Hazards by Jonathan Segura
A father-daughter double-homicide opens Segura's dark debut. It seems as though it's all in a day's work ...
Awesome by Jack Pendarvis
Giants have all the fun. And AWESOME, the titular narrator of Pendarvis's first novel, is no exception. ...
Slumberland by Paul Beatty
With the publication of his 1996 novel, The White Boy Shuffle, Paul Beatty blazed a trail into what can now ...
A Grave in Gaza by Matt Beynon Rees
Nuances are pretty hard to come by in much mainstream coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a ...
With the Kama Sutra Under My Arm by Trisha Bernard
Don't be fooled by the cover - the seductive Kama Sutra consort reaching backwards from her lover in ecstasy ...
Miss Chopsticks by Xinran Xue
The tone of Xinran Xue's latest novel, Miss Chopsticks, about the journey of three migrant peasant sisters, ...
The Imposter
After the success of The Good Doctor, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2003, readers eagerly ...
The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa
In her native Japan, there are few major literary awards Yoko Ogawa has not already been decorated with. ...
Tiger, Tiger by Galaxy Craze
May, the 12-year-old protagonist of Galaxy Craze's 1999 debut, By the Shore, continues ...
One Minute to Midnight by Michael Dobbs
The world barely needs another book on the Cuban Missile Crisis, but Dobbs's hour-by-hour ...
Northern exposure
Mike Chinoy’s latest book reveals the truth behind North Korea’s nuclear programme, and the complete failure of US foreign policy to stop it.
Mike Chinoy’s latest book reveals the truth behind North Korea’s nuclear programme, and the complete failure of US foreign policy to stop it.
Housing project
Pakistan-born, London-based novelist Nadeem Aslam goes global.
Pakistan-born, London-based novelist Nadeem Aslam goes global.
Petrochemical Sunsets: In the lap of the gods
You read about The Last Gods of Indochine here first.
You read about The Last Gods of Indochine here first.
How Nury Vittachi writes
Vittachi says we live in two worlds, one of which is in our heads.
Vittachi says we live in two worlds, one of which is in our heads.
Wild Boy by Andy Taylor
A likeable and capable autobiography of Duran Duran's former guitarist.
A likeable and capable autobiography of Duran Duran's former guitarist.
Books features
Chinese history X
Writer-journalist Xinran tells Edmund Lee about her mission to record China's contemporary history, ...
Posted: 8 Sep 2008
Apocalypse now
Chuck Palahniuk tells Adam Lee Davies why we all love the idea of Armageddon
It hardly seems like nine ...
Posted: 25 Aug 2008
Taking shots
Liu Heung-shing, veteran photographer for Time and the Associated Press, stands under a pomegranate ...
Posted: 28 Jul 2008
River crossing
Chiew-Siah Tei is on a mission to tell the story of the Chinese Diaspora, writes Clare ...
Posted: 14 Jul 2008
Master and commander
Amitav Ghosh explores uncharted territory in his new novel, Sea of Poppies, writes Avtar Singh
In Sea ...
Posted: 27 Jun 2008
The sorrow and the pity
Siri Hustvedt began her new novel The Sorrows of an American as a way of coping with her father's death, discovers ...
Posted: 16 Jun 2008
Tibet: lost horizons
Two new Tibet tomes ask important questions about its future, writes Victoria Burrows
Tibet, and its ...
Posted: 30 May 2008
Interview: Tim Winton
Tim Winton's new novel Breath promises "sensory momentum". Kate Eshelby rides the Australian waves
"If ...
Posted: 21 May 2008