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   <title><![CDATA[A bluffer's guide]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/01/pierre-bayard-talk-reading</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Sophie Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read</strong>

Pierre Bayard <em>Granta Books, 192pp, £12 </em></em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Tale of the century]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/11/peter-gay-modernism-book</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Sophie Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Modernism: the Lure of Heresy - From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond </strong>

Peter Gay <em>Heinemann, 640pp, £20 </em></em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Awkward beauty]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/poetry/2007/10/civil-power-hill-love-treatise</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Sophie Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>A Treatise of Civil Power</strong>

Geoffrey Hill <em>Penguin Books, 64pp, £9.99</em></em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[The love of a good man]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/05/birthday-world-shriver-irina</link>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Sophie Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>The Post-Birthday World</strong>

Lionel Shriver <em>HarperCollins, 396pp, £15</em>

ISBN 0007243413</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Tales from the duvet]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/04/graham-swift-tomorrow-paula</link>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Sophie Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Tomorrow</strong>

Graham Swift <em>Picador, 248pp, £16.99</em>

ISBN 0330450182</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[News from a lost world]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/02/jim-margaret-johns-wintering</link>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Sophie Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Wintering</strong>

Derek Johns <em>Portobello Books, 199pp, £7.99</em>

ISBN 1846270235</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Under the microscope]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/200610090050</link>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Sophie Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Arlington Park</strong>

Rachel Cusk <em>Faber & Faber, 256pp, £14.99</em>

ISBN 057122847X</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[A man with many sides]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Sophie Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Thomas Hardy: the guarded life

</strong>Ralph Pite <em>Picador, 524pp, £25</em>

ISBN 033048186X</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[The reluctant traveller]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/200604100042</link>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Sophie Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em>On Trying to Keep Still

Jenny Diski <em>Little, Brown, 307pp, £15.99</em>

ISBN 0316725250</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Lost objects]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/200601230046</link>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Sophie Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em>In the Dark Room: a journey in memory

Brian Dillon <em>Penguin Ireland, 246pp, £17.99</em>

ISBN 184488046X</em></p>

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