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Who's afraid of Jackie Collins? by Cathy Adams

published on 2009-01-27

They are certainly not to everyone’s taste, but clearly there are more people out there reading Jackie Collins’ novels and the like than would care to admit it. Cathy Adams looks at why these literary equivalents of Heat! magazine are so secretly popular.

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The Rise and Fall of 'Misery Porn' by Amy Feldman

published on 2009-01-23

Has the depressing recession news dampened our appetite for miserable literature…or are celebrity memoirs simply more interesting? Amy Feldman examines the rise and fall of a genre that many readers hate to love.

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One for The Road by Will Roszczyk

published on 2009-01-19

Will Roszczyk is a big fan of Cormac McCarthy and a major film buff, so he is very interested to see what will happen when ‘The Road’ meets the big screen (though not without slight apprehension). He looks at some past successes and failures when it comes filmic adaptation and asks to which category ‘The Road’ is likely to belong.

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Travel Writing and the Big New Issues by Kate Nivison

published on 2009-01-19

They hardly need spelling out

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Project Gutenberg: Back to the Future by Lisa Evans

published on 2009-02-06

So you’ve heard of the new eBook readers, the devices designed to help book lovers read ebooks. Sony, amongst others proudly boasts that their Reader comes with 100 free ‘classics’. It sounds pretty impressive… until you find out that these ‘classics’ have been available for years on Project Gutenberg completely free of charge! Lisa Evans finds out more about this great forward-thinking initiative from the past.

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Why we all like a good period drama by Lisa Evans

published on 2009-01-13

Last week an adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank started on BBC, and there have been many other recent classic novel dramatisations, such as Little Dorrit and _Tess of the D

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Amazon and Sony battle it out by Dina Patel

published on 2009-01-09

Last year Rob Sullivan had the chance to check out a Sony Reader and considered how it compared next to the iPhone and the mobile app Stanza. Now, Dina Patel has a look at the battle to conquer the market for eBook devices so far.

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It's the Halliday Season! by Kat Matfield

published on 2009-01-09

Nicholas Halliday always enjoyed creative writing, and his work as a freelance designer allowed him to flex his other creative muscles. It was reading to his daughter and watching the new generation of computer animated films from Pixar and Disney with her that encouraged him to develop the stories and unique visual style that have won The Lonely Tree, The Scummage and his other children

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Edged with Humour: Roald Dahl and the Art of the Short Story by Elizabeth Sowden

published on 2009-01-06

From the word go, Roald Dahl has featured heavily in the discussions, reviews and charts on CompletelyNovel. Liz Sowden takes a look at the beginnings of the writing career of this master storyteller. If it were not for a chance encounter he ‘might never have written anything’, so what is it about his writing that captured the imaginations of so many?

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Happy New Year by Anna Lewis

published on 2009-01-02

We hope you had a lovely festive break and a great end to 2008. 2009 is going to be very exciting for CompletelyNovel and we look forward to joining forces with everyone who loves books!

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