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Playing the Enemy by John Carlin, What I talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, Mindfulness by Mark Williams and Danny PenmanPlaying the Enemy, by John Carlin, read by Saul Reichlin (10hrs unabridged, Whole Story Audio, £20.41)This is the book that inspired Clint...(more)
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A book about Haiti's troubled history in The New York Times Book Review, and a look at five cold warriors who changed their minds about nuclear weapons in the weekly podcast discussion.
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UK-made, female-driven anthology Bayou Arcana is causing a stir for more than just its haunting images and storylinesIt is one of the more eagerly awaited titles due to emerge from Britain's vibrant independent comic and graphic novel scene. But the "southern gothic" horror anthology, Bayou Arcana,...(more)
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A new book by an ex-White House reporter claims that President Richard Nixon was a mobbed-up drunk who beat the First Lady and may have had a decades-long gay affair with a shady Miami-area businessman.
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2012 is being touted as 'the year of the short story', but the last 12 months are going to be hard to beatAre these hard times for the short story? Perhaps not so very tough: in his introduction to The Best British Short Stories: 2011 Nicholas...(more)
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P. D. James’s latest mystery revisits the world of “Pride and Prejudice,” as a murder intrudes on the proper, manored lives of Elizabeth and Darcy.
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Free e-books are available for members of the New York Public Library and can be downloaded remotely without a visit to the library.
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Steve Fezzik, a big-time professional sports bettor, is excited about the long-awaited Christmas Day opening of the NBA season following a nearly five-month work stoppage.
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The UN co-produces a study listing the scientific details of Amazon plant species that can be harvested for economic or medicinal purposes.
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The Poetry Book Society asked hard questions of Aurum, but most poets earn little from writing and prizes are vitalOn the right-hand side of my desk are eight volumes of poetry, the shortened shortlist of volumes entered for the TS Eliot prize. They represent the very...(more)
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In “Extra Virginity,” Tom Mueller reveals the brazen fraud in the olive oil industry and teaches readers how to sniff out the good stuff.
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It was almost inevitable that three new books would end up pitted against one another in reviews, but now their authors are going after one another in real life.
