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• Lindsey Collen’s Mutiny Africa’s “Best Unread Book” of the Decade?

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 479
  Alert! The Guardian has conducted a curious decade-end literary poll, asking various literary figures in the UK their opinion of the noughties’ “best unread book”. Only one title from an African pen is mentioned: literary agent Victoria Hobbs names South African-born, Mauritius-based writer Lindsey Collen’s ...
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• Winifred Gill and the Omega Workshops

  
  Venetian Red — Authority: 119
  by Christine CariatiWinifred Gill, Sketch of dancers, 1916Pencil, ink and watercolor on paperThe Bodleian Library, OxfordWinifred Gill (1891-1981) was one of the unsung heroines of the Omega Workshops. The task of  creating patterns or translating existing designs to be used on textiles, furniture and home ...
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• Princeton

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 530
  Check out this new video by our favorite local band, Princeton, for their song, “Calypso Gold” off their latest album, Cocoon of Love The opening credits magically transforms Los Angeles into a 60s French New Wave film. In tinted, slightly overexposed scenes, the band mysteriously runs from some unknown menace ...
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• Kalk Bay Books’ Cornucopia of Xmas Book Recommendations

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 479
  Kalk Bay Books - your seaside haven for all things literary - brings you their recommended book list for the Xmas season - a list that contains a heart-gladdening 41 works of SA Lit. (There seems to be one oversight: where’s Kalk Bay favourite Finuala Dowling ’s Notes from the Dementia Ward ?) BOOK SA ...
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• My top ten books of the year

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 570
  Newspapers are busy filling their pages with their top tens of the year. 2009 has been a vintage year for fiction so here are a few of my Christmas must-reads.  High-brow, low-brow, you name it, it’s an eclectic list. In no particular order (as they say on The X-Factor), my favourites include:1: Ive bought Kamila ...
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• Comedy review: Louis CK

  
  Londoners — Authority: 112
  Louis CK turns Chris Lo into Chris LOL Louis CK, Bloomsbury Theatre, November 13 Stand-up comedy might just be the ultimate popular American art form. I use the word ‘popular’ because that allows me to neatly sidestep jazz, which is definitely art, but certainly isn’t popular. Nobody actually likes jazz, ...
  5 days ago

• How to go from the london university housing in bloomsbury to the institute of cancer research in chelsea?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 170
  I am an international student and planning to stay in london for 6 months to work at the institute of cancer research in chelsea (the chester betty laboratories). I wanted to know how far is the university of london housing in bloomsbury district from the institute and how long does it take to get there by tube. I ...
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• Pub #3: The Lamb

  
  Tasty Fever! — Authority: 114
  Pub number three is one I’d been in a couple times before, at least.  When I was staying in the lovely hostel known as the Generator in Bloomsbury back in late August, I had stumbled upon Lamb’s Conduit Street on my walks around the area.  The street was popularised in an issue of Monocle, and [...]
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• The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker Book Review / Disneys The Princess and the Frog

  
  Brimful Curiosities — Authority: 467
  My daughter is excitedly awaiting her first visit to the movie theater. Sometime very soon she will watch Disneys newest princess movie, The Princess and the Frog . To prepare her for her movie experience, I decided to introduce her to a few different print versions that helped inspire the movie. The Frog ...
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• Easy and Elegant Life Holiday Gift Guide 09: The Errant Aesthete

  
  Easy and Elegant Life — Authority: 125
  Today’s Easy and Elegant Life gift guide comes from The Errant Aesthete whose very elegant blog never fails to inspire and provoke thought (and an internet search or two.) A nicely curated collection. Enjoy. (I’m torn between the Bialetti Tuttocrema and the Bloomsbury recordings….) Classic Hotel Napkins ...
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• Good news

  
  Chris Priestley — Authority: 122
  I have emailed everyone (hopefully) who contacted me and Facebooked myself senseless, telling everyone that the Cumbrian Book Appeal is postponed until the new year. This will allow the council to recover a little from the devastation and allow for a more considered approach to the distribution of books. I am moving ...
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• The De Orbe Novo Collection: Exploration in the New World 1492-1625 – impressive sale results

  
  Berkshire Review for the Arts — Authority: 421
  Bloomsburys sale of the De Orbe Novo Collection: Exploration of the New World 1492-1625 is highly unusual, even unique in the history of a field which is well-populated with eccentrics. Bruce McKinney, the publisher of Americana Exchange, an online repository of book market data, put the collection together between ...
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• The Maintenance of Headway by Magnus Mills

  
  Reading Matters — Authority: 466
      Fiction - hardcover; Bloomsbury; 152 pages; 2009. You know youve really enjoyed a book when you titter your way through it, which is exactly what I did when I eagerly devoured Magnus Mills latest novel, The Maintenance of Headway. Mills, who is one of my favourite authors , is, admittedly, not ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jenny Crwys-Williams’s Christmas Book List on Carte Blanche

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 479
  TV- and radio personality Jenny Crwys-Williams recently shared her list of some of the year’s best books with Carte Blanche viewers. From crime fiction with Margie Orford’s Daddy’s Girl to cooking with Marlene van der Westhuizen’s Sumptuous , art with Sue Williamson’s South African Art Now and ...
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• * New titles from Bloomsbury

  
  Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf — Authority: 129
  Their official spring-summer 2010 catalog isn’t online yet, but Bloomsbury is printing one new title and a 2009 title with a new afterword. The new title is Charlie Finley: The Life of Baseball’s Super Showman , a joint effort by G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius, slated for a July release. From the ...
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• THE NOVEL, NOT THE SANDWICH: Andrew Madigan on Mark Sarvas’ Harry, Revised

  
  Gently Read Literature — Authority: 116
  Harry, Revised, Mark Sarvas, BloomsburyThe first line of Harry, Revised is both memorable and poignant: “Harry Rent used to fiddle with his wedding ring, now he fiddles with the space it has left behind” (1). This is an epigram, of sorts, for the novel, which is a comic interpretation of the classic love ...
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• Venetian Red Bookshelf: 2009 Picks

  
  Venetian Red — Authority: 119
  Most every Venetian Red post cites a book or two related to the topic at hand. Occasionally we review books at length. Many readers have commented with appreciation, and we decided that more in this department just might be better. Today we introduce Venetian Red Bookshelf, a periodic round up of books, favorites from ...
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• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

  
  Reading Matters — Authority: 466
    Fiction - paperback; Bloomsbury Publishing; 304 pages; 1997. Sometimes I find myself unexpectedly reading one novel after another that share similar themes. I think this is what you call serendipity. Or maybe its sheer coincidence. But whatever the case, I couldnt help but compare Anne Michaels 1996 novel ...
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• The De Orbe Novo Collection: Exploration in the New World 1492-1625 – at auction, Thursday December 3rd, 10.30 am

  
  Berkshire Review for the Arts — Authority: 421
  Bloomsburys sale of the De Orbe Novo Collection: Exploration of the New World 1492-1625 is highly unusual, even unique in the history of a field which is well-populated with eccentrics. Bruce McKinney, the publisher of Americana Exchange, an online repository of book market data, put the collection together between ...
  3 weeks ago

• Book Review: The Mark by Jen Nadol

  
  Presenting Lenore — Authority: 419
  I was so captivated by this premise: Cassie can see a faint glow around the heads of people who are about to die. Why does she have such a strange power and does she have the moral responsibility to tell what she knows? Cassie is rather more robust than your typical teen. Once her nana dies, she’s entirely on her ...
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