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		<title>One (Wo)man Booker failure</title>
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Hm, can one call it a failure if I never actually stated that I would read the entirety of the longlist before the prize was awarded? To be fair, that hasn&#8217;t be done yet and only the shortlist is being announced today&#8230;
Suffice to say, though, I have only read four of this year&#8217;s Man Booker [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paperback-reader.co.uk/2010/09/07/one-woman-booker-failure/</link>
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		<title>Recent Acquisitions</title>
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Ahem.  I seem to have acquired a good few books over the last month.  A number of these, if not all, have transpired from my recent desire to return to my reading roots and the above reflect my true and yet diverse reading tastes.  Very few of the titles are actually new fiction but those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paperback-reader.co.uk/2010/09/06/recent-acquisitions-15/</link>
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		<title>Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Endpapers taken from 1970s knit fabric in private collection
When I read Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski a year ago, I felt as if my heart had been ripped out in the heightened emotion of the closing pages; with Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon, the emotional intensity was present from the opening page and sustained [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paperback-reader.co.uk/2010/09/01/still-missing-by-beth-gutcheon/</link>
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		<title>The Blue Castle</title>
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It is all too seldom that one finds a book to embrace to your heart upon finishing but The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery is one such book.  I clasped it with such joy and contentment and poignancy that the experience was over; I fell in love with this book and I am delighted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paperback-reader.co.uk/2010/08/24/the-blue-castle/</link>
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		<title>Ch-Ch-Changes</title>
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You may have noticed that my blogging has been somewhat sporadic of late.  This has been for a myriad of reasons; I have been busier than normal with several projects and a busy calendar, which is going to become even more chaotic over the coming months.  However, I have also been a bit of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paperback-reader.co.uk/2010/08/23/ch-ch-changes/</link>
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		<title>In A Strange Room by Damon Galgut</title>
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Damon Galgut was a writer I had not encountered before  In a Strange Room was longlisted for this year&#8217;s Man Booker prize.  He has been previously shortlisted and the blurb on the front of this book alludes to him being &#8220;a kindred spirit of the great Coetzee&#8221;; as a recent yet ardent fan of Coetzee, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paperback-reader.co.uk/2010/08/12/in-a-strange-room-by-damon-galgut-2/</link>
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		<title>Room by Emma Donoghue</title>
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You may have noticed that Room by Emma Donoghue is a novel that is receiving a lot of attention across the blogosphere.  Longlisted for this year&#8217;s Man Booker prize, there has been an ever-increasing organic buzz surrounding the novel, that is exciting, deserved and nothing like a droning vuvuzela.  Picador in the UK have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paperback-reader.co.uk/2010/08/09/room-by-emma-donoghue/</link>
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		<title>Recent Acquisitions</title>
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Strictly speaking this installment of Recent Acquisitions are not that recent but from early last month.  I forgot to post them whilst I was away (despite adding one of them to my summer reading pile) but wanted to share them with you before the latest -and Booker longlist heavy- acquisitions.
Kirsty of Oxford University Press generously [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paperback-reader.co.uk/2010/08/08/recent-acqusitions/</link>
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		<title>Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman</title>
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&#8220;This is a novel for people with breeding” is the self-proclaiming tag-line for the novel Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman, son of Nicola Beauman of Persephone Books.  It is an astonishingly accomplished debut that is highly erudite and original.  Boxer, Beetle is intelligent and witty and one of the best debut novels I have read; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paperback-reader.co.uk/2010/08/07/boxer-beetle-by-ned-beauman/</link>
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		<title>The Return</title>
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Hello, all.  I have officially returned from a holiday at home; I was back in London at the tail-end of last week but we enjoyed a few more days off de-compressing from our time away.  Glasgow was &#8230; temperamental weather-wise; one day I was driving along a flooded street in torrential rain, water up to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paperback-reader.co.uk/2010/08/03/the-return/</link>
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