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   <title><![CDATA[Who’d have thought it]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/08/ideas-series-penguin-winder</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:40:53 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Robert Hanks</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Penguin’s Great Ideas series is too Eurocentric, too male – but at least it’s made it cool to pull a volume of Edmund Burke from your pocket.</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Socialism and suspense]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/06/ambler-business-uncommon</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:37:05 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Robert Hanks</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Eric Ambler was born a century ago, but the morally compromised world of his left-wing thrillers is still very familiar today.</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Deliver us from evil]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/03/office-girl-zweig-christine</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:49:45 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Robert Hanks</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>The Post Office Girl</strong>

Stefan Zweig

<em>Sort Of Books, 265pp, £7.99</em></em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Hard to care about]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/01/jay-mcinerney-bachelor-lost</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:35:41 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Robert Hanks</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>The Last Bachelor</strong>

Jay McInerney <em>Bloomsbury, 216pp, £12.99</em></em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Dazzling digressions]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/01/santa-teresa-2666-book-bolano</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:58:05 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Robert Hanks</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>2666</strong>

<em>Roberto Bolaño</em>

Picador, 898pp, £20</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Killingly funny]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/01/gilbert-adair-christie-holmes</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:31:46 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Robert Hanks</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>And Then There Was No One

</strong>Gilbert Adair

<em>Faber & Faber, 272pp, £14.99</em></em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Eastern approaches]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/11/china-buruma-japanese</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:30:27 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Robert Hanks</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>The China Lover</strong>

Ian Buruma

<em>Atlantic Books, 320pp, £15.99</em></em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Ruffian on the stair]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/09/roth-marcus-indignation-father</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:23:36 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Robert Hanks</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Indignation</strong>

Philip Roth

<em>Jonathan Cape, 256pp, £16.99</em></em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Compare and contrast]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/08/powell-martin-amis-son-book</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:28:48 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Robert Hanks</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Amis and Son: Two Literary Generations

</strong>Neil Powell

<em>Macmillan, 448pp, £20</em></em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Fools and madmen]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/05/barry-roseanne-scripture</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Robert Hanks</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>The Secret Scripture</strong>

Sebastian Barry

<em>Faber & Faber, 320pp, £16.99</em></em></p>

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