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British author Jeffrey Archer signs 3-book deal with HarperCollins
British author Jeffrey Archer has left Pan Macmillan and signed a three-book deal with HarperCollins, with the first book to be published this autumn
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Nobody likes lists
Everyone and their editor is convinced that we want to know exactly what they were reading this year.
Exploring ambivalence
As an "espionage" novelist, le Carre broke what may be called the Ian Fleming mould
Jame McBride, Isabel Wilkerson, Ferrante among nominees for Kirkus Prize
Elena Ferrante, James McBride and Isabel Wilkerson are among the nominees for the Kirkus Prize, a USD 50,000 honour for the best fiction, nonfiction and children's books.
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A very British obsession
British writers are leaders in crime fiction, writes Aditi Phadnis
Hilary Mantel's new novel brings Thomas Cromwell across the finish line
The Mirror and the Light is the triumphant capstone to Mantel's trilogy on Thomas Cromwell
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Long-playing novelists
There has been only exception to this urge to write and write and write: J D Salinger. He wrote just one highly successful novel, The Catcher in the Rye
John le Carre's is an unremarkable novel about spies in the time of Brexit
This is not a novel of quality. This review is a call for the master
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Arundhati, Rushdie make it to BBC's 100 'Novels That Shaped Our World' list
The list has been collated by a panel of writers, curators and critics to select the 100 English language 'Novels That Shaped Our World'
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The short and the long of it
How many stories should make up a collection?
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Reading novels likely to make people more friendly, sympathetic: Study
Those who prefer watching television over reading are less sociable, says UK university study
