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David Nicholls at the Oxford Literary Festival
8th April 2011 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
“If you’re after a brilliantly-written love story that never slides into sentimentality David Nicholls’s One Day is just the ticket. Nicholls trained as an actor before switching to writing - his first novel, Starter for Ten, was made into a film starring James McAvoy and Rebecca Hall and he wrote the recent TV adaptation of Tess of the D’Urbervilles. His third novel is a funny ‘“will they, won’t they?’” romance...
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My top ten books of the year
15th December 2009 | 2 comments | 2 people like this
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: I've bought Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury, £7.99) for almost everyone I know. An ambitious, epic novel, it... -
The very best summer reads
14th July 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Just when the long summer holidays are here my fearless teenage son has gone and toppled ten feet off a Warwickshire hill on his mountain bike. As well as his wounded pride, he’s broken his collarbone in three places and is now out of action for the entire summer. No sailing. No skateboarding. Certainly no biking. As the lovely staff nurse in the children’s ward told him: “Well, you could...
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Emma Lee-Potter is a journalist and author of four novels. She has two teenage children and spends her spare time worrying about the ramshackle farmhouse she bought in the south of France. The wreck has half a roof, assorted wildlife and an alarming damp problem but her friends assure her it all be perfect by 2020. She writes a weekly blog for Easy Living magazine.
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