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   <title><![CDATA[Character sketches]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/12/zadie-smith-character-book</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Simon Baker</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>The Book of Other People</strong>

Edited by Zadie Smith <em>Hamish Hamilton, 304pp, £16.99</em></em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Faking it, Byron-style]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/01/polidori-markovits-byron</link>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Simon Baker</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Imposture</strong>

Benjamin Markovits <em>Faber & Faber, 20opp, £10.99</em></em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Studies in solitude]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Simon Baker</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Matters of Life and Death

</strong>Bernard MacLaverty <em>Jonathan Cape, 232pp, £14.99</em>

ISBN 0224077856</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Light and dark]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Simon Baker</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Carry Me Down</strong>

M J Hyland <em>Canongate, 352pp, £9.99</em>

Harding writes well about class, deftly conveying the foibles of the privileged

ISBN 1841957348</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Publish and be damned]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Simon Baker</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em>In an attempt to find new talent, a publisher has devised a way of making it easier for authors to get into print. Simon Baker reads the first six offerings and wonders if the scheme was such a good idea</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Fiction - 'Pon my word!]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Simon Baker</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Kept: a Victorian mystery

D J Taylor <em>Chatto & Windus, 431pp, £16.99</em>

ISBN 0701178957</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Fiction - Disco inferno]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Simon Baker</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Anthology of Apparitions 

Simon Liberati Translators: Paul Buck and Catherine Petit <em>Pushkin Press, 139pp, £10.99</em> 

ISBN 1901285588</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Fiction - Them and us]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Simon Baker</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Incendiary

Chris Cleave <em>Chatto & Windus, 245pp, £10.99</em>

ISBN 0701179058</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[American pastoral]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Simon Baker</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Human Capital 

Stephen Amidon <em>Viking,  375pp, £12.99</em> 

ISBN 0670915270</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Fiction - The perfect match]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Simon Baker</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Cherry 

Matt Thorne <em>Weidenfeld & Nicolson,  197pp, £12.99</em>

ISBN 0297829092</em></p>

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