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Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife

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Author: Francine Prose

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In June, 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years, with ever-increasing maturity, Anne crafted a memoir that has become one of the most compelling, intimate, and important documents of modern history - grappling with the unfolding events of World War II, until the hidden attic was raided in August, 1944.
But the diary of Anne Frank, argues Francine Prose, is as much a work of art as an historical record.
Through close reading, she marvels at the teenaged Frank's skillfully natural narrative voice, at her finely tuned dialogue and ability to turn living people into characters. And Prose addresses what few of the diary's millions of readers may know: this book is a deliberate work of art. During her last months in hiding, Anne Frank furiously revised and edited her work, crafting a ... more

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Baboon Metaphysics

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Author: Horace Bent (Ed.)

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The eagerly-anticipated Diagram Prize contest is back, and has selected this year's most bizarre book title. Established in 1978 by the Diagram Group to avoid boredom at the Frankfurt Bookfair and now presided over by the Bookseller, the prize has become an annual media event. Stuffed full of sniggeringly-good titles such as Hot Topics in Urology, When Men are Pregnant and Everything I Know About Women I Learned from My Tractor, Baboon Metaphysics includes the funniest titles short-listed for the prize in previous years. Nominees range from the thoughtful Why Replace a Missing Back Tooth? to the alarming Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality to the down-right puzzling Children Are Wet Cement. Also featuring are some surprising self-help titles such as How to Write While You Sleep and If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs. British publishers and booksellers compete fiercely to get suggested titles on to the ... more

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Book Self : The Reader as Writer and the Writer as Critic

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Author: C K Stead

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For more than 40 years, Karl Stead has been New Zealand's leading literary and cultural critic. Whether writing about Christianity or a trip to Croatia, he always brings a clear personal point of view, a strong analytical bent, and a witty pen to his work. In this latest collection of critical writing, a sequel to his successful books Kin of Place, Answering to the Language and The Writer at Work, Stead takes the reader on a personal journey, from his earliest discovery of poetry as a young man to his experiences on the literary trail over the last few years. And he takes us on a trip through literary history, from Katherine Mansfield and T S Eliot to Michael King and Elizabeth Knox. For the first time, Stead includes in this book a series of journal extracts that allow readers closer to the mind of the writer. "Here the ego is exposed-not quite naked, but now and then with its shirt off," he writes. In Book Self we see a great New ... more

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Decoding the Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Facts Behind the Fiction

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Author: Simon Cox

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Following on from the phenomenally successful The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, Dan Brown's next thriller, The Lost Symbol, is set to feature Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon once again, whose exploits will take him inside the secret societies of the Freemasons and Rosicrucians - replacing Opus Dei and the Illuminati of previous adventures.

Decoding the Lost Symbol by bestselling author Simon Cox is an A to Z guide featuring illustrations and colour photographs to illuminate the text. It will provide all the answers to the cryptic mysteries in Dan Brown's highly anticipated new novel.
Simon Cox is the author of two other guides to Dan Brown's novels, Cracking the Da Vinci Code and Illuminating Angels and Demons, and Decoding the Lost Symbol is hotly tipped to repeat their huge success.
Cracking the Da Vinci Code has now been translated into over 15 languages and ... more

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Granta 99, Autumn 2007 : What Happened Next

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Author: Ian Jack (ed)

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This title contains: Richard Ford interviewed by Tim Adams: the aftermath of Dirty Realism; Owen Sheers on the consequences of Christmas Island's nuclear past; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the death of her high-school sweetheart; Katya Krausova on the survivors of the Slovakian Holocaust; Roberto Saviano on the streets of Naples; and Kitty Hauser on OGS Crawford: pioneering aerial photographer, utopian socialist and English eccentric. It also contains fiction by Josh Weil, Gemini Wahhaj and Helon Habila; Photo essays in colour: Joel Sternfeld's New York street scenes and in B/w: Dayanita Singh on an unusual pioneering Indian photographer - her mother.

First published 2007.

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Kate's Klassics

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Author: Kate Camp

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Featured on Radio New Zealand National.
Kate gives a personal and entertaining insight into 10 great literary classics, beginning with a short synopsis of each work. She attempts to answer some of the key questions of classic literature, i.e. Was Odysseus the inspiration for James Bond? Who is the most shaggable of Jane Austen's heroine's? (Elizabeth Bennet, apparently). Did Napoleon ever make it into Moscow? Books discussed are: Crime and Punishment, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Moby Dick, The Odyssey, The Old Testament, Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, Wuthering Heights

First published October 2007.

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Miss Herbert

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Author: Adam Thirlwell

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The secret history of novelists is often a history of exile and tourism - a history of language learning. Like the story of Gustave Flaubert and Juliet Herbert, it is a history of loss and mistakes. As Flaubert finished Madame Bovary, Miss Herbert, his niece's governess, translated the novel into English. But this translation has since been lost.
Translation, and emigration, is the way into a new history of the novel. We assume that we can read novels in translation. We also assume that style does not translate. But the history of the novel is the history of style.
Miss Herbert solves this conundrum. This book is not a novel, but an inside-out novel - with novelists as characters. It demonstrates a new way of reading internationally - complete with maps, illustrations, and helpful diagrams. And it includes a slim appendix: Mademoiselle O, a story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in French, about his own ... more

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Why Not Catch 21? The Stories Behind the Titles

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Author: Gary Dexter

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"Why Not Catch 21?" is an expansion on Gary Dexter's long-running "Sunday Telegraph" column. Each of its fifty chapters focuses on the origins of one of the great titles of world literature, presenting a bite-sized piece of literary history, with fascinating details of the work's genesis and composition. The emphasis is on titles that are literally inexplicable without this background knowledge. Do you know: What was Wordsworth's Prelude a prelude to? Who was the original Jeeves? Why A Clockwork Orange and not A Robot Banana? Read "Why Not Catch 21?" and find out.

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100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels (Bloomsbury Good Reading Guides)

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Author: Stephen E Andrews & Nick Rennison

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Want to become a science-fiction buff, or expand your reading in your favourite genre? This is a good place to start!

From the publishers of the popular Good Reading Guide comes a rich selection of some of the finest sci-fi novels ever published. With 100 of the best titles fully reviewed and a further 500 recommended, you'll quickly become an expert in the world of science-fiction. The book allows you to browse by theme, including special categories like 'science-fiction and film adaptations'. It also includes 'a reader's fast-guide to the world of science-fiction', and lists of award winners and book club recommendations.
It includes a foreword by Christopher Priest, an award-winning science-fiction author (with a major film adaptation of his book, The Prestige, launching at the time of publication).

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An Elemental Thing

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Author: Eliot Weinberger

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Internationally acclaimed as one of the most innovative writers today, Eliot Weinberger has taken the essay into unexplored territories on the borders of poetry and narrative where the only rule, according to the author, is that all the information must be verifiable. With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us through histories, fables, and meditations about the ten thousand things in the universe: the wind and the rhinoceros, Catholic saints and people named Chang, the Mandaeans on the Iran-Iraq border and the Kaluli in the mountains of New Guinea. Among the thirty-five essays included are a poetic biography of the prophet Muhammad, which was praised by the London Times for its "great beauty and grace," and "The Stars," a reverie on ... more

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