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Women's prize for fiction 2013: longlist offers Hilary Mantel stiff competition
Mantel's all-conquering Bring Up the Bodies faces challenges from Barbara Kingsolver, Zadie Smith, Kate Atkinson and AM Homes for the award formerly known as the Orange prizeThey did it. It's difficult...
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Book reviews roundup: Sex and the Citadel, Life After Life and The God Argument
What the critics thought of Sex and the Citadel by Shereen El Feki, Life After Life by Kate Atkinson and The God Argument by AC Grayling"Shereen El Feki's book on sex in the Arabic-speaking world is...
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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – review
Kate Atkinson plays with our notions of plot and possibility to dazzling effectOn a snowy night in 1910, a baby is born with the cord wrapped around her neck and, because the doctor is delayed by the...
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Reader reviews roundup
Salman Rushdie, Cees Nooteboom and Kate Atkinson are among the authors reviewed this weekSalman Rushdie's Midnight's Children has been gathering admirers ever since it was published in 1981, with its...
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Cover girls: this year's book jacket fashions
As the London Book Fair showcases this year's literary trends, we showcase the latest must-have looksWhat's the fashionable book wearing, with publishing's spring/summer season just begun and its...
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Women's prize shortlist: Hilary Mantel issue looms large for judges
Judges face a tricky decision with the double award-winning Bring Up the Bodies author among finalistsAt 20 titles, the Women's prize longlist casts its net wide. The final half-dozen, by contrast,...
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Case Histories; Australia With Simon Reeve – TV review
It's a nice mix of bleak and jolly – but there's just too much of Kate Atkinson's novel to cram inOK, so I can be a bit thick when it comes to knowing what's going on in a complicated television drama...
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Edinburgh international book festival announces 2013 lineup
Life and work of Iain Banks to be honoured at 30th festival, with Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman also featuring in two-week event partnered by the GuardianThe life and works of the...
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Best holiday reads 2013
From classic novels to recent releases, writers and critics tell the Observer which books they'll be cramming into their suitcases this summerLouise DoughtyNovelistWell-written reportage or memoir is...
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Neil Gaiman leads Not the Booker prize shortlist
After a long night's count, the six finalists for the glittering Guardian mug have emerged. There's plenty for us to talk aboutThe votes are in. They've been counted too. That took a long time and, let...
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Not the Booker prize 2013: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
A tale of perpetual resurrection offers vivid, often playful writing, but an unbelievable premiseCracking the spine of the first novel on the Not the Booker shortlist is generally a nerve-racking...
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Not the Booker prize 2013: The Trader of Saigon by Lucy Cruickshanks
The prose may be clumsy, but this tale of the Vietnamese bride trade has a pacy plot and good intentionsIt seems cruel to compare a young first-time novelist like Lucy Cruickshanks with a seasoned...
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Ten tips to keep up your holiday reading habits
Don't resign yourself to only reading on holiday. With a few top tips, you can keep the page-rate going all year round1. A glass a day keeps the reader at bayYou might cherish holiday memories of...
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Costa book awards 2013: late author on all-female fiction shortlist
Posthumous nomination for Bernardine Bishop on list that also includes Kate Atkinson, Maggie O'Farrell and Evie WyldFor 50 years Bernardine Bishop worked as a teacher and psychotherapist before cancer...
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The best fiction of 2013
There were mighty tomes from Donna Tartt and Eleanor Catton, pastiches for lovers of Bond and Wodehouse, and a final novel from Iain Banks. We look back at the year's big hitters• The best science...
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As the countdown to Christmas gathers speed, the Guardian books team pick out the novels and non-fiction, for adults and children, that have most impressed us and our contributors this year.We're...
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The publishers' year: hits and misses of 2013
Publishers choose their books of the year, and the ones that got awayRobin Robertson Deputy publishing director, Jonathan CapeThe book that made my year: Many years ago, I was sitting in Blake's bar in...
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Readers' books of the year 2013: part 1
From Sebastian Faulks's Jeeves and the Wedding Bells to Patrick Ness's More Than This to Alan Johnson's This Boy, Guardian readers pick their favourite reads of 2013Chris Allen, Buckingham Burial Rites...
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Nathan Filer wins Costa first-novel award with The Shock of the Fall
Novel, described as 'one of the best books about mental health', goes on to compete for overall prizeReview: Life after Life by Kate AtkinsonReview: The Pike by Lucy Hughes-HallettReview: Goth Girl by...
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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – review
Kate Atkinson's dazzling novel exploring multiple versions of a life is joyful and moving, but is it too clever for its own good?Life After Life can be read as a book about writing (very fashionable)...
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