Category Archives: Authors
Groupie by Jenny Fabian
First published in 1969 and listed by The Observer as one of ‘The 50 greatest music books ever’, this book by Jenny Fabian caused shockwaves throughout the literary community. For a feeling of what life was like in the sixties … Continue reading
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Reg Keeland
Presently enjoying well-deserved fame for his translations of Stieg Larsson’s thrilling and unique Millennium series of crime novels, Reg Keeland has a large number of other accomplishments to his name. Born Steven T. Murray in Berkeley, California, he uses the … Continue reading
Karin Slaughter
Imagine that you are a paediatrician and the coroner in a small American town in ‘Grant County.’ You’re recently divorced from you police-chief husband (even though you secretly still love him); you take a routine lunch break at a diner … Continue reading
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Jodi Picoult
Lives riven with impossible choices, invisibly scarred with regret and charged with hope, dread, love and trauma – these constitute the stuff and substance of so much of human life. Jodi Picoult fashions them into beautifully poignant prose. An author … Continue reading
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Louise Rennison
If, like me, you came across Louise Rennison’s Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series through your teenage children, you’ll readily confess to your helpless absorption in the hilarious, infectious and simply compelling nature of the stories. You just have to keep … Continue reading
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Ben Goldacre
Some of the most recurrent news issues to hit the headlines in recent times are panics over health – MMR vaccines causing autism, obesity epidemics, bird flu, most recently swine flu, often accompanied with fearful warnings about mass contamination and … Continue reading
Aravind Adiga
Aravind Adiga was born into a comparatively prosperous Indian family in Chennai (formerly Madras), India in 1974. Despite his privileged origins, his awareness of – and refusal to ignore – the brutalising and endemic poverty in the country he loves … Continue reading
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