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Book Pricing

I should state up front that I have no interest in reading Spare the new book from Prince Harry which has perturbed much of the UK press so...

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Mostly, But Not Entirely, Icelandic Christmas Reading

Around this time of year I always have good intentions to write more about the books I read. I’ve got a note somewhere of a long list...

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The Romantic by William Boyd

William Boyd is the contemporary master of the ‘whole life novel’ – books that use a character’s entire lifetime to...

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Authenticity by Alice Sherwood

As with all non-fiction books, there is a subtitle – ‘How economics, evolution and technology drive us to deceive – and how...

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After Steve by Tripp Mickle

As I write, Apple is the second most valuable company in the world. A couple of weeks ago it was the most valuable, but many tech stocks...

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Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy by Erich Schwartzel

In 1996, I was on a mountain biking holiday in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. It was an organised trip with a small travel company and we...

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Tour de Force by Mark Cavendish

I should probably preface this review by saying that I know one of the Cavendish’s ghostwriters, Daniel Friebe. So make of that what...

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The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly

The latest book from Michael Connelly feels as contemporary as anything he’s written recently. Connelly always says that his books...

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The Second Cut by Louise Welsh

In The Second Cut we revisit the world of Rilke, who readers first came across in Louise Welsh’s fantastic debut The Cutting Room. Rilke...

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

I’ll start by saying that I absolutely loved this novel set in the world of independent computer games from the 90s onwards. It took me a...