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R. N. Morris on switching from thrillers to arias
Posted On: June 9, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
R. N. Morris explains how he ended up as both a writer of historical crime novels – and the librettist for a new opera…
Read More...Ian Davidson on Voltaire
Posted On: June 9, 2010Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Profile Books
We think of Voltaire as the epitome of the Enlightenment; in his own time he was also the most famous and controversial figure in Europe. Ian Davidson’s new biography celebrates his extraordinary life through the thousands of his letters to have survived. Here, he discusses it with George Miller.
Read More...Zoya Phan on Little Daughter – A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
Posted On: June 8, 2010Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Zoya Phan is a 28-year-old ethnic Karen refugee from Burma. As a teenager she was forced to flee her country after her village was attacked by the Burmese Army. She now lives in London and works for the human rights organization Burma Campaign UK. Listen to her talk about her life in this podcast.
Read More...Paul Collier on The Plundered Planet
Posted On: June 7, 2010Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Penguin Books
Paul Collier’s The Bottom Billion had a profound impact on our thinking about global poverty. Now, with The Plundered Planet, he has set himself an even more ambitious goal: to reconcile the immediate needs of the world’s burgeoning population with a sustainable environmental future.
Read More...An extract from Talking to Zeus: My Year in a Greek Garden, by Jane Shaw
Posted On: June 4, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Jane Shaw was working as a volunteer in Chelsea’s famous Physic Garden when she earned a placement to work for a year on a very special organic garden in Greece. But this was to be no easy-going break in the Mediterranean…
Read More...Independent Bookseller of the Month: The Main Street Trading Company, St Boswells
Posted On: June 3, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Every month we feature a different bookshop – we ask them to tell us what makes them special and what they like most about what they do. This month it’s the turn of the Main Street Trading Company of St Boswells, in the Scottish Borders.
Read More...Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade
Posted On: June 2, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
Drug smuggler turned author and campaigner for legalisation of cannabis Howard Marks introduces the new edition of Snowblind. the story of the legendary Zachary Swan, a mover in the cocaine trade in the sixties who set the standard for all who followed.
Read More...Win tickets to see Hilary Mantel at the Borders Book Festival [closed]
Posted On: June 1, 2010Posted In: Competitions
Publisher: Fourth Estate
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Hilary Mantel has been the talk of the literary establishment this year after her Booker Prize win for Wolf Hall. We have three pairs of tickets to see her talk at this year’s Brewin Dolphin Borders Book Festival, sponsored by Bookhugger, on Friday the 18th of June.
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