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/ 17 October 2008
Ion Trewin, literary director of the Man Booker Prize, talks to Darryl Accone on the eve of the 40th Booker.
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/ 11 September 2008
China-watching has never been so popular — or lucrative. Publishers can’t get enough of scholarship, punditry and fiction about China.
Alexander McCall Smith, creator of the peerless Mma Ramotswe, talks about hs new adventure, <i>The Miracle at Speedy Motors</i>.
It is a brave new world that the third edition of the Cape Town Book Fair, subtitled <i>Words Create Worlds</i>, encounters from June 14.
The second Cape Town Book Fair, an event about letters and words, seems — in its official media releases at least — to be obsessed instead with figures and numbers, writes Darryl Accone
But there’s no shortage of cookery books, writes Darryl Accone.
A tapeworm, a cockroach and the famous dead are among the characters in Nadine Gordimer’s <i>Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black</i>.
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/ 1 February 2008
As the People’s Republic prepares to celebrate the Year of the Brown Earth Rat, Darryl Accone reviews a new crop of titles about the country.
It is almost 40 years since Roland Barthes announced the death of the author and called for the "birth of the reader" in that annus mirabilis of French history, 1968. For Barthes, it was the reader who should decide literary meaning. To a degree, authors were already playing this game before Barthes.
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/ 21 December 2007
Writers on writing made up much of my best reading of the year, writes Darryl Accone.