Tag: UK
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Helen Oyeyemi and Female Madness
“Female craziness is something I’m very interested in…how it can manifest itself, what it means, what pressures force someone into these behaviours. I’m pretty much obsessed with madness. –Helen Oyeyemi, The Times Interview I’m always taken when someone writes fiction that explores mental illness, even more so when the writer is a woman, and of…
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2009 Orange Prize novel offered as a Free Download
A novel that was yesterday shortlisted for the Orange Prize will be made available as a free download for a day. Burnt Shadows is being offered to anyone who wishes to download it by the publisher Bloomsbury. The book by Kamila Shamsie, a Pakistani-born author who now lives in London, concerns Hiroko Tanaka, a survivor…
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Angel or Demon: Dan Brown and “The Lost Symbol” of His Writing
Dan Brown’s first new novel since The DaVinci Code was announced yesterday. Inevitably, it involves a global cult and a race against time to unlock a secret formula. Details of the plot are likely to remain fiercely guarded until much nearer the publication date of September 15, but intrigue centres on whether Brown’s vast and…