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Best China book

Posted: 15 Dec 2008

China, Portrait of a Country. Edited by Liu Heung-shing. There's no denying that 2008 was the ‘Year of China'. Global attention was focused on the host of this summer's Olympic ...

Interview: Leslie T. Chang

Posted: 12 Dec 2008

Bong Miquiabas speaks with Leslie T. Chang about her two years spent among the Factory Girls of Dongguan. Any savvy reporter knows that great stories can often be found in commonplace ...

How I write: Susanna Bryceson

Posted: 12 Dec 2008

The educator Rudolph Steiner may well have said "busy hands, busy brain," but I think for anyone trying to write clearly in a complex world, multi-tasking might only make the job more ...

The Sultan and the Mermaid Queen by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski

Posted: 12 Dec 2008

This is an anthology of 1980s Asia - of steamy, sexy folktales, mingled with the advent of mass tourism and golf courses, appetites for turtle meat, shark's fin and skinned birds of paradise, ...

The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb

Posted: 12 Dec 2008

Begun in the immediate aftermath of the Columbine shootings in Littleton, Colorado, Wally Lamb's new novel follows Columbine teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, the school's nurse, ...

The Fallen by Dave Simpson

Posted: 12 Dec 2008

Mark E Smith, the uncompromising and often belligerent leader of the late John Peel's favourite group, The Fall, is not an easy man to write about. Since 1976, his opaque lyrics and caustic, ...

Winnie and Wolf by A.N. Wilson

Posted: 12 Dec 2008

If A. N. Wilson's novel Winnie and Wolf doesn't alienate readers with its heavy allusions to German history and music, it might drive them away with its premise: The book chronicles ...

The Economist Book of Obituaries by Keith Colquhoun and Ann Wroe

Posted: 12 Dec 2008

Thankfully, Keith Colquhoun and Ann Wroe are not in the business of churning out bland homages to the dead. In the introduction to their new collection of obituaries, originally published ...

The Taker and Other Stories by Rubem Fonseca

Posted: 1 Dec 2008

American audiences, weaned on the blood-and-gore shock treatments of the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Bret Easton Ellis, might be unfazed by this collection of stories by Brazilian ...

A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich

Posted: 1 Dec 2008

Once upon a time, in a land far away, there was a young man named E. H. Gombrich, who achieved the most wondrous thing: he wrote a complete history of the world, in only six weeks! Impossible ...

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