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‘Zadie Smith's fizzing first novel is ... an astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious, and the voice has real writerly idiosyncrasy. I was delighted by White Teeth, and often impressed.’
Salman Rushdie
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Deeply funny, subversive and splendidly entertaining, The Autograph Man is a whirlwind tour of celebrity and our fame-obsessed times. Following one Alex-Li Tandem – a twenty-something, Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer t read more
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How did George Eliot's love life affect her prose? Why did Kafka write at three in the morning? In what ways is Barack Obama like Eliza Doolittle? Can you be over-dressed for the Os read more
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About the Book: On Beauty
Set in New England mainly and London partly, 'On beauty' concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kippses - and clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and as read more
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The Book of Other People is just that: a book of other people. Open its covers and you’ll make a whole host of new acquaintances. Nick Hornby and Posy Simmonds present the ever-diverging writing life of Jamie Johnson; Hari Kunz read more
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About the Book: NW
Twenty-first-century London comes vividly to life in Zadie Smith's first novel since the bestselling On Beauty
NW is set in the London heartland where Smith herself grew up and tha read more
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Wherever we live in this world—whether our country is rich or poor—water is vital to our survival on this planet. This book follows the daily lives of children in Peru,Mauritania, the United States, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Tajikistan, read more
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