Booker Prize judges write off recent winners
                   
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telegraph.co.uk     12-May-2008            

Not a single winner of the Booker prize since the turn of this century has made it on to a list of the six best novels in the award's 40-year history. ... To mark the 40th anniversary of the prize, the public are being asked to vote for the Best of the Booker from titles... [read full story]                

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Clearing A Space, by Amit Chaudhuri

independent.co.uk     25-Jul-2008          

For most people in the West, "India" has come to mean an overblown but fascinating amalgam of kitsch, weird English, colours, call centres, religiosity and extravagant emotion, illustrated by Bollywood films and the early...                

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Tories: The rats are fighting in the sack!

libdemblogs.co.uk     24-Jul-2008          

Oh dear. I shouldn't enjoy this, but I do. Naughty but nice Salman Rushdie c1980 The bit I enjoyed the most is this outburst of pomposity from old Winters: Sir Nicholas told the Macclesfield Express yesterday that he was the...                

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Alix's book meme thingy

libdemblogs.co.uk     24-Jul-2008   6 related          

Ok, I'll go along with it too. Those I've read are in red and those I intend to read are in blue. I've read a number of Shakespeare's plays and certain parts of the bible (won't be reading any in the future though) so they...                

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To find your perfect novel, see page 69

guardian.co.uk     23-Jul-2008          

Musicians have long held that the true worth of an album is to be found at track seven. Marshall McLuhan recommends trying the same trick at page 69. His theory of how to choose a book goes like this: first of all, read page...                

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