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| 25/05/2012 12:00 AM | ||
| The 10 Best summer cookbooks | ||
 1. The Food of Spain by Claudia Roden 
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| 25/05/2012 12:00 AM | ||
| The 10 best summer cookbooks | ||
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1. The Food of Spain by Claudia Roden 
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| 24/05/2012 12:00 AM | ||
| Will Dean's Ideas Factory: Billr app means an end to asking 'Why am I paying for your steak?' | ||
 Somehow, it's never easy. Even if there's an even number of you. Even if everyone has the same meal. And the same drinks. Even the tip can make things complicated. 
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| 22/05/2012 12:00 AM | ||
| Trending: Hardbacks vs e-books: the sequel | ||
 In the world of journalism it's called a "reverse ferret" - a story breathlessly announcing that Black is White, just 24 hours after confidently asserting that Black is Black. In the genteel environs of publishing, it's a volte-face. Whatever it is, James Daunt, owner of Daunt Books and managing director of the Waterstones chain, executed a classic twirl at the weekend. 
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| 20/05/2012 12:00 AM | ||
| Between the Covers 20/05/2012 | ||
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We love flavorwire.com's new collection of "extremely silly photos of extremely serious writers", which shows that even Nobel Prize-winners kick back and let their hair down from time to time. 
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| 20/05/2012 12:00 AM | ||
| The Blagger's Guide To: Michael Frayn | ||
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Michael Frayn's latest novel, Skios, will be launched on Thursday. It will be his eleventh novel. He has also written or translated 31 plays, and published 12 works of non-fiction, including a collection of his journalism, Travels With a Typewriter (2009) and a biography of his father, My Father's Fortune: A Life in 2010. 
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| 20/05/2012 12:00 AM | ||
| Invisible Ink: No 124 - Hans Fallada | ||
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His pen-name was created from two characters in Grimm's fairy tales, but his novels had little in common with the moralistic fantasies of mittel-Europe. Rudolf Ditzen was a magistrate's son, raised in Berlin and immersed in Dickens, Flaubert and Dostoevsky. He became one of the greatest German authors of the 20th century, but was not translated into English until 2009. 
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| 20/05/2012 12:00 AM | ||
| The curious world of Norton Juster | ||
 Some people are very easy to interview. Norton Juster is not one of them. He's delightful and articulate, but listening to the recording of our time together, it's striking how much more interesting his answers are than my questions. So our conversation entirely failed to resolve classics such as "Where did the idea for your book come from?" and ended up instead about vocational education, bipolar disorder, obscure Edwardian ghost-story writers, C P Snow, synaesthesia and the walks Juster used to take with his older brother. In some respects, it's hardly surprising; Juster has been giving interviews about his children's classic The Phantom Tollbooth for half a century, so might be forgiven for wanting his conversations to roam elsewhere. 
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| 19/05/2012 09:00 AM | ||
| How Aharon Appelfeld chronicled the Holocaust | ||
 Blooms of Darkness, in Green's graceful, grave and irresistibly readable English version, tells the story of Hugo, a young Jewish boy in an occupied town in eastern Europe who loses his parents to the camps but stays alive thanks to the shelter and salvation offered him by a local prostitute, Mariana. It extends and deepens one of the most remarkable journeys in all modern literature. In a prolific career whose highlights include novels such as Badenheim 1939, Tzili, The Immortal Bartfuss and The Iron Tracks, as well as the memoir The Story of a Life, Appelfeld has interrogated the meaning of what happened to him, to his community, and to humanity itself, during Europe's era of genocide. 
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| 19/05/2012 09:00 AM | ||
| Gwendoline Riley: A portrait of the artist as a brooding young woman... | ||
 Gwendoline Riley was finishing her first novel at the age that most of us were sleeping in, bunking off, or congregating around a pint at the student union bar. Turning her university dissertation into her debut, Cold Water (2002) she signed a two-book deal at the age of 22. Since then, she has accumulated a hipster-ish following and several literary awards (Somerset Maugham Award, the Betty Trask Award, a John Llewellyn-Rhys Memorial prize shortlisted nomination). 
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