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

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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Will Baroness Ashton be an effective EU foreign minister?

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