10 May 2013
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We caught up with Graeme Simsion while he was visiting Britain to promote his new book The Rosie Project. We asked him about his reading habits, where he got his inspiration and his future writing plans.
The interview
For anyone who hasn't read The Rosie Project, can you give us the plot in a couple of lines?
A socially-awkward genetics professor sets out… more
25 April 2013
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Damian Barr's new novel Maggie & Me, a memoir of his childhood in Margaret Thatcher's Britain, is published today. Find out more about Damian, his book and the reason he loves libraries in this month's author focus.
About Maggie & Me
It's 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Miraculously, Margaret Thatcher survives. In small-town Scotland,… more
18 April 2013
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We gave 10 reading groups the chance to read and review Lucy Clarke's gripping debut novel, The Sea Sisters (published by HarperCollins).
About The Sea Sisters
There are some currents in the relationship between sisters that run so dark and so deep, it's better for the people swimming on the surface never to know what's beneath...
Katie's carefully structured world is shattered by… more
28 September 2012
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