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Women's Fiction Prize Unable To Find Sponsorship Is Saved By Private Donors

The Guardian | Posted 10.08.2012 | Women
Read More: British Fiction, British Women, Orange Prize, Cherie Blair, Fiction Prize for Women, Women Writers, Female Writers, Women News

High-profile private donors have stepped in to save the UK's only prize for female writers after a scramble for a sponsor failed to come up with a lon...

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Pride and Prejudice and Hebrews

Lev Raphael | Posted 09.25.2011 | Books
Read More: British Fiction, Jewish Fiction, Romance, Jane Austen, Writing, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Books, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Novels, Regency England, Romance Novels, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Book Club, Jane Austen Fans, Austen, Books News
Lev Raphael

I've published twenty books in genres from memoir to mystery but I never thought of doing an Austen mashup until I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombie...

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'Boy In The Striped Pajamas' Author Talks New Book

The Guardian | Michelle Pauli | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Books for Kids, British Fiction, Holocaust, Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne, Holocaust Fiction, Children's Books, Kidlit, The Holocaust, Children's Literature, John Boyne Author, Books News

It's hardly surprising that an author who made his name with a novel for children set during the Holocaust should expect a certain seriousness from li...

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Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's 'Solar'

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Michiko Kakutani, Newspaper Reviewing, Solar, Postmodern Fiction, Fiction, British Fiction, Literary Criticism, Morality, Ron Charles, Book Reviewing, Atonement, Global Warming, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Franzen, Books News
Anis Shivani

What American reviewers have missed is that satire and history are coming together for the first time in McEwan's career.

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