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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: A26 | Roadkill | Pascal Garnier
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Tuesday, 22 January 2013. A26 Roadkill Pascal Garnier. Pascal Garnier’s The A26. this is literary fiction with a hapless, desperate serial killer. At first Garnier seems intent on playing this for laughs as if the victims are utterly meaningless and that jars a bit. But as the book went on it began to really grip me. The truth that is revealed is that for these Frenchmen and women the war has never really ended, and they are the poorer for it. Stuck In A Book.
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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: Has the Black Swan Stolen an Oscar?
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Friday, 1 April 2011. Has the Black Swan Stolen an Oscar? Will Natalie Portman one day come to regret ever taking the lead role in Black Swan. This Guardian blog sums up the case neatly enough. If that is the case, shouldn't the dancing have come across a little better? The dancing, at least the effort she put into it, regardless of the fact that it still looked less than you would see in a proper ballet, lifted the performance up two, three, ten levels. If ther...
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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: SAS man hits the high street | Theo Knell struggles to adjust
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Friday, 23 November 2012. SAS man hits the high street Theo Knell struggles to adjust. If there is ever an invasion. I want. TheoKnell on my side. Theo served with the British Army, including the SAS, for 22 years. A Hell for Heroes. Is his attempt to give an honest account of army life and very importantly, life after the army. But when they are thrown out into Civvy Street, all the structure, camaraderie and usefulness is gone, leaving a terrible vacuum. Theo ...
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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: Pow! First impressions of a controversial Chinese literary POWerhouse
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Tuesday, 22 January 2013. First impressions of a controversial Chinese literary POWerhouse. Thinking about it, 2013 has to be the ideal time to focus on the big wide world. The last twelve months have, after all, been so bloody British: Jubilee, Olympics, about a dozen pageants, Dickens, Shakespeare, even Scottish independence. There were entire weeks when you wondered if the rest of the globe had shut down completely. I’m no Mo Yan expert (who is? I found it di...
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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: An Elk is for life, not just for Christmas... Doppler
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Tuesday, 22 January 2013. An Elk is for life, not just for Christmas. Doppler. The cover of Doppler. By Erlend Loe comes with a neat little tagline: “An elk is for life. not just for Christmas.”. Doppler is middle aged, his father has just died, and he’s fallen off his bike. So he leaves his comfortable Oslo home, takes a tent and heads off to live in the woods, “adopts” an elk calf and calls him Bongo. The Steven Van Zandt comedy BBC4 ran recently – perha...
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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: CJ Sansom | Dominion | Nazis in Great Britain
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Friday, 23 November 2012. CJ Sansom Dominion Nazis in Great Britain. He is best known for his historical detective series starring the Tudor hunchback, Shardlake – think Wolf Hall crossed with Inspector Morse. But with Dominion, CJ Sansom takes history by the neck and sends it flying. “What if,” he’s asking, “Germany hadn’t lost the war? We’ve been here before. The author has already highlighted two influences in Len Deighton’s SS-GB. As a Scot, Sansom saves som...
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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: May 2012
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Monday, 21 May 2012. Russell Kane Comedian turns lit fic novelist The Humorist. Russell Kane is everywhere at the moment. He's on BBC3. He's on Dave. He crops up on panel shows, stage shows, end of the pier shows. I half expect he'll also star at Crufts. He's won Fringe accolades, performed as Beyonce in a charity Stars in their Eyes Special and posed naked for Cosmopolitan mag. And now he has written a novel. Yet The Humoristis set in the world of stand-up.
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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: SJ Watson | Before I Go To Sleep | Interview with the author
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Tuesday, 21 August 2012. SJ Watson Before I Go To Sleep Interview with the author. BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP has been the debut thriller of the year, racking up impressive sales critical acclaim and a raft of award nominations. I spoke to the author, SJ Watson, quite recently. The novel has already attracted the attention of Hollywood, with a number of leading actresses said to be interested in playing the woman without a memory. My take on this is that the only way ...
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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: Harry Potter | What did they do to the end of the Deathly Hallows? | JK Rowling
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Sunday, 17 July 2011. Harry Potter What did they do to the end of the Deathly Hallows? I'm not going to go on an on about this. The talented and hard working individuals who made the Harry Potter movies know more than I do about turning books into film and what flies in the multiplex. But I do wish they hadn't messed with JK Rowling's ending. Why didn't Harry use his invisibility cloak in the forest and to evade the death eaters once the battle was rejoined?
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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: July 2012
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Saturday, 21 July 2012. Business books Resilience, Why Things Bounce Back. Mitch Blunt's illustration for Big Issue. Business books: sounds dry already, doesn’t it? Double entry accounting systems? The Ten Most Efficient Ways to Reach Your Sales Target. Stuff for the workplace, surely? In doing so Gladwell confirmed the first rule, if you like, of the business book. Don’t just give your book a title, give it a buzzphrase. Written by National Geographic fellow An...
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