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Eli Gottlieb's top 10 scenes from the battle of the sexes
Aug 19 2008:From Ernest Hemingway to Ian McEwan, novelist Eli Gottlieb picks the fieriest scenes from the eternal conflict
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Aug 12 2008:
Jessica Duchen chooses the greatest Gypsy characters in fiction, from Carmen to Charlotte Brontë's disguised Rochester
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Aug 6 2008:
Clive Sinclair chooses his favourite westerns, including McCarthy, Proulx and - rather surprisingly - Fitzgerald
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Jul 30 2008:
Danny Fingeroth is an American comic book writer and editor, and an expert on superheroes. Author of Superman on the Couch, his latest book is The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels
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Jul 22 2008:
Catherine Sampson picks the 10 books that offer the greatest insight into life in Beijing
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Jun 16 2008:
Lee Rourke's debut collection of short stories, Everyday, is published by London's Social Disease Publishing. He is the editor of the literary magazine Scarecrow and contributing editor at 3AM magazine
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Jun 11 2008:
Simon Critchley was born in Hertfordshire in 1960, and currently lives and works in New York as professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research
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May 14 2008:
Romesh Gunesekera was born in Sri Lanka in 1954 and moved to Britain in 1971. His first novel, Reef, was short-listed in 1994 for both the Booker and the Guardian Fiction prizes
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May 9 2008:
To mark the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth later this month, Charlie Higson, the author of the bestselling Young Bond series, has chosen his favourite Bond villains
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Apr 30 2008:
Andy Cave is a cutting-edge Alpinist with several formidable first ascents to his credit. Learning to Breathe, his first book, was joint winner of the 2005 Boardman Tasker Prize
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Apr 24 2008:
Founder of the innovative Travel Bookshop that formed the setting for the movie Notting Hill, Sarah Anderson has written several travel books
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Mar 5 2008:
Winner of the 2004 Whitbread poetry prize for his collection Corpus, Michael Symmons Roberts has published four highly acclaimed volumes of poetry to date. He is currently working on a project for Welsh National Opera with composer James Macmillan, and his second novel, Breath, is published by Jonathan Cape on March 13
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Feb 28 2008:
Tim Harford's new book, The Logic of Life: Uncovering the new economics of everything, argues that the most unexpected people - oversexed teenagers, Las Vegas slot addicts, juvenile delinquents and even your boss - are rational, unconsciously weighing up risks and rewards and complying with economic logic. The author of The Undercover Economist, Harford is fond of unearthing economics in unexpected places, and here he roots it out in 10 unexpected books
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Feb 15 2008:
James Hopkin won an Arts Council short story competition with 'Even the Crows Say Krakow'. His debut novel, Winter Under Water, set in several cities across Europe, was published in paperback by Picador last week
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Feb 13 2008:
Freya North's first novel, Sally, was one of the publishing successes of 1996, and was followed by Chloe, Polly and Cat, all bestsellers. Her latest novel, Pillow Talk, won the Romantic Novel of the Year award earlier this month
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