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21 Oct 2014:
After an American tourist got locked in to one of their bookshops, Waterstones are inviting volunteers for a sleepover. Here are ten short books you could read in an evening – but what would you do if you could spend the night in a bookshop? Let us know in the comments below
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17 Oct 2014: Elizabeth Day chooses the sharpest and smartest of small but perfectly formed works of fiction
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2 Oct 2014:
Colm Tóibín explains how his new novel, Nora Webster, draws on his memories of his father's death, joining a rich tradition of writing about loss, from Sophocles to Joan Didion
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12 Sep 2014:
Britain’s top literary award includes American titles for the first time this year. We asked top writers and critics which novels should have won had US authors been eligible throughout the prize’s history
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22 May 2014: Laura Wilson on The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson, The Front Seat Passenger by Pascal Garnier, Darkness, Darkness by John Harvey, The Murder Bag by Tony Parsons, and two reissues – Duffy by Julian Barnes writing as Dan Kavanagh and Speedy Death by Gladys Mitchell
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4 Apr 2014:
John Dugdale: The crime fiction he wrote as Dan Kavanagh in the 80s is being reissued with a very low profile
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3 Apr 2014: Poet laureate and authors Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan and Mark Haddon want to meet justice secretary to discuss restrictions
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2 Apr 2014: From Proust to the latest neuroscience, the psychologist and novelist rounds up the best reading on the 'slippery charms' of an essential faculty
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26 Mar 2014:
More major names join fight against restrictions, while justice secretary claims move is what public wants
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26 Mar 2014:
Writers including Alan Bennett, Carol Ann Duffy and Jeffrey Archer declare support for campaign by Howard League for Penal Reform
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14 Mar 2014:
As US writer George Saunders wins first Folio fiction prize, the message to young UK talent waiting in the wings is don't despair
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21 Feb 2014:
Research suggests that awards such as Booker draw bad reviews from mis-matched readers
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24 Jan 2014:
As Roddy Doyle signs up to pen Roy Keane's memoirs, John Dugdale matches other top writers to the heroes of their favourite sports
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24 Nov 2013:
Writers, Observer critics and others tell us their favourite reads of 2013 – and what they hope to find under the tree
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15 Oct 2013:
'Nothing was wrong with the Man Booker prize' and admission of US writers will make it much harder for writers from the UK, says former winner
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