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When fiction becomes ridiculous
38+ min ago (575+ words) Who's up for a bit of bingo? That makes me quite an irritating person to watch drama with which got me wondering whether you might like to play the same game that I do from time to time in spotting…...
Novelist "Bourne" to write spy thrillers speaks in Naples on Feb. 23 - AOL
3+ hour, 25+ min ago (594+ words) When a teenager named Brian Freeman read a new spy thriller called "The Bourne Identity" back in 1980, he couldn't have imagined that, 40 years later, his name would be right there on the covers of new Bourne novels. Today, Freeman has…...
The lives of Doyennes, and of a lady's maid
3+ hour, 9+ min ago (26+ words) Manila Bulletin Press Escape to quit searching The lives of Doyennes, and of a lady's maid...
Read to the beat with this year's summer book challenge
11+ hour, 5+ min ago (354+ words) The free Summer Reading Challenge at Cambridgeshire libraries is open to pre-school and primary school-aged children of all reading abilities and encourages young readers to keep up their reading during the school holidays, building confidence and creativity along the way....
"Fascinating insight": 'Rule of Lies' - a true story that reads like a spy novel
4+ hour, 38+ min ago (16+ words) Newstalk ZB...
Book review: Strange world, familiar sadness
4+ hour, 38+ min ago (650+ words) Keith Ridgway's powerful fictional gift is to render the contemporary Ireland of Dooneen both recognisable and strange, as if we are in a world that we instinctively know but do not fully understand. From the west coast of Ireland, an…...
After years of teaching, travel, Steve Rand shares a deeply personal story in his first book" " Waterbury Roundabout
6+ hour, 59+ min ago (453+ words) Two years after stepping down from teaching high school English and painstakingly shepherding Harwood's student travel study program to Rwanda and elsewhere, Steve Rand is sharing his first project as an author." Remarkably, this latest adventure required no faraway travels....
Bound to Be Good Books brings romance reads to Great Falls
5+ hour, 21+ min ago (23+ words) KRTV Bound to Be Good Books brings romance reads to Great Falls...
Book review: Nauseating but fun royal yarn
4+ hour, 38+ min ago (653+ words) Si'n Evan's retelling of the story groans under the weight of far too many emphatic repetitions of points the reader has already grasped. Picture: northbanktalent. com 1936: One year, three Kings of England. George V died in January." His eldest son…...
The Recommender: Tahmima Anam
10+ hour, 57+ min ago (171+ words) Review of the Week Her new novel, Uprising " which tells the story of sex workers trapped on an island, based on a real-life brothel in Bangladesh " was recently shortlisted for the Orwell prize. She will appear at the Edinburgh International…...