July 1996 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Biography | Literary biography | Novels Biography Tony Parsons From Tarry Stool to Teenage Icon Rebel: The Life and Legend of James Dean By Donald Spoto LR Literary biography Allan Massie A Writer Who Needs to be Saved From His Admirers The Man in the Mirror of the Book: A Life of Jorge Luis Borges By James Woodall LR Novels Ray Monk And, Er, That’s It The Solitaire Mystery By Jostein Gaarder LR
Tony Parsons From Tarry Stool to Teenage Icon Rebel: The Life and Legend of James Dean By Donald Spoto LR
Allan Massie A Writer Who Needs to be Saved From His Admirers The Man in the Mirror of the Book: A Life of Jorge Luis Borges By James Woodall LR
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Richard Flanagan's Question 7 is this year's winner of the @BGPrize.
In her review from our June issue, @rosalyster delves into Tasmania, nuclear physics, romance and Chekhov.
Rosa Lyster - Kiss of Death
Rosa Lyster: Kiss of Death - Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
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‘At times, Orbital feels almost like a long poem.’
@sam3reynolds on Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, the winner of this year’s @TheBookerPrizes
Sam Reynolds - Islands in the Sky
Sam Reynolds: Islands in the Sky - Orbital by Samantha Harvey
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
But is this the missing link in le Carré’s oeuvre, asks @ddguttenplan, or is there something awry?
D D Guttenplan - Smiley Redux
D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway
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