Simon Baker

Articles by Simon Baker

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Character sketches

  • 06 December 2007

The Book of Other People Edited by Zadie Smith Hamish Hamilton, 304pp, £16.99

Faking it, Byron-style

  • 15 January 2007

Imposture Benjamin Markovits Faber & Faber, 20opp, £10.99

Studies in solitude

  • 26 June 2006

Matters of Life and Death Bernard MacLaverty Jonathan Cape, 232pp, £14.99 ISBN 0224077856

Light and dark

  • 08 May 2006

Carry Me Down M J Hyland Canongate, 352pp, £9.99 Harding writes well about class, deftly conveying the foibles of the privileged ISBN 1841957348

Publish and be damned

  • 10 April 2006

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

Fiction - 'Pon my word!

  • 13 February 2006

Kept: a Victorian mystery D J Taylor Chatto & Windus, 431pp, £16.99 ISBN 0701178957

Fiction - Disco inferno

  • 24 October 2005

Anthology of Apparitions Simon Liberati Translators: Paul Buck and Catherine Petit Pushkin Press, 139pp, £10.99 ISBN 1901285588

Fiction - Them and us

  • 18 July 2005

Incendiary Chris Cleave Chatto & Windus, 245pp, £10.99 ISBN 0701179058

American pastoral

  • 07 February 2005

Human Capital Stephen Amidon Viking, 375pp, £12.99 ISBN 0670915270

Fiction - The perfect match

  • 20 September 2004

Cherry Matt Thorne Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 197pp, £12.99 ISBN 0297829092

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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