Books Editorial
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The Decadent Sportsman
Medlar Lucan & Durian Gray, Dedalus, £9.99 Lucan and Gray are two coves who have given their lives over to the pursuit of decadence, a fact reinforced by their previous tomes...
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The Complete David Bowie
Nicholas Pegg, Titan Books, 19.99 Why is David Bowie continually referred to as the ‘Chameleon of Pop’? Aren’t chameleons chiefly known for their ability to blend into the ba...
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Songs That Saved Your Life: The Art of The Smiths 1982-87
Simon Goddard, Titan Books, £9.99 Are the songs of The Smiths worthy of the same amount of forensic analysis
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A matter of loaf and death
Perched imperiously on the banks of the Tyne, Spillers Mill once supplied one in every ten loaves of bread eaten in the UK.
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February 13 Book Reviews
Book of the month: The Odd Couple: The curious friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin Richard Bradford, The Robson Press, £20
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Interview: Salman Rushdie
Author Salmon Rushdie has been a pretty ubiquitous figure lately (words we thought we would never write). His memoir ‘Joseph Anton’ which came out earlier this y...
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January 13 Book Reviews
Book of the month Great North Road Peter F Hamilton, Macmillan, £20 A SF novel set in Newcastle? Who’d have thought it? At the Lit and Phil book launch recently Hamilton re...
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December 12 Book Reviews
Tudors: A History of England Volume 2 Peter Ackroyd, Macmillan, £20 When Queen “Bloody” Mary was ruling England back in the 16th century, and Protestants were being burned a...
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November 12 Book Reviews
Telegraph Avenue Michael Chabon, Fourth Estate, £18.99 Chabon manoeuvres his maximalist style onto Jonathan Franzen territory with this doorstopper of a novel, set in the mi...
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October 12 Book Reviews
Raymond Chandler: A Mysterious Something in the Light Tom Williams, Aurum Press, £20 Raymond Chandler found fame as the author of the Philip Marlowe series of novels, the pri...
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Muff said
Riot Grrrl isn’t dead, far from it, as a new local fanzine, and band, C(i)A (a.k.a. Clits In Action), makes forcefully clear.
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September 12 Book Releases
The House of Rumour Jake Arnott, Sceptre, £17 Golly! Where to start? Arnott’s latest novel takes in a bewildering series of decade spanning events, both real and imagined, a...
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August 12 Book Reviews
The Deadman’s Pedal Alan Warner, Jonathan Cape, £12.99 Set in the early 1970s, Warner’s latest novel concerns Simon Crimmons, the son of a local trucking magnet who is 15 go...
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