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An interview with David Simon, by Nick Hornby
Posted On: October 1, 2009Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Canongate
“My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader.”
Read More...September non-fiction round-up
Posted On: September 29, 2009Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
If fiction’s not your thing, September sees a wealth of fascinating new non-fiction hitting the shelves, including : biographies of characters as diverse as a novelist, a poker star, a movie mogul and a top tailor; and histories of the liberation of Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Read More...Dr Nick Megoran, on Democratic Ideals and Reality
Posted On: September 25, 2009Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
Halford Mackinder’s Democratic Ideals and Reality was one of the two major polemical works published in 1919 (the other was the much more famous The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes). Now it’s available again, thanks to the magic of print-on-demand imprint Faber Finds.
Read More...John Kampfner asks: is our freedom for sale?
Posted On: September 18, 2009Posted In: Articles, Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Award-winning journalist John Kampfner surveys the state of democracy in the world, and considers the assaults on freedom of expression and individual liberties that have taken place in many countries in the name of prosperity and material wealth.
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