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Margaret Atwood on The Blind Assassin – Guardian book club
The author explains how she made two attempts to introduce the central character before hitting on the final versionWriting The Blind Assassin was a start-and-stop process. My first idea was to write...
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John Mullan on The Blind Assassin – Guardian book club
Among the tricks and puzzles, the overwhelming sense of design encourages the reader that there will be answersThe very construction of Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin is puzzle-like. It is made...
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Book club with Jhumpa Lahiri
The Pullitzer prize winning author will be in conversation with John Mullan at Kings Place on Tuesday 24 SeptemberDate: Tuesday 24 SeptemberTime: 7pmVenue: The Scott Room, The Guardian, Kings Place, 90...
View ArticleMargaret Atwood on The Blind Assassin – books podcast
Margaret Atwood's Booker prize-winning novel, The Blind Assassin, sets a series of interlocking stories within the framework of a manuscript left behind by a young Canadian woman who has died in a car...
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Jhumpa Lahiri on Unaccustomed Earth – Guardian book club
The author explains how months or years can elapse between a story's conception and its constructionMany of the stories were abandoned for several years before I returned to them. The first to be...
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John Mullan on Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth – Guardian book club
Each one of Lahiri's short stories contains enough material for a novel, yet her clever use of radical abbreviation suggests what cannot be toldAs short stories go, the eight stories that comprise...
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Boyd on Bond
Join William Boyd for a discussion of his new James Bond novel Solo at the Royal Institution on Monday 28 OctoberDate: Monday 28 OctoberTime: 7pm (doors open at 6.30pm)Venue: The Royal Institution of...
View ArticleJhumpa Lahiri on Unaccustomed Earth – books podcast
Unaccustomed Earth, the 2008 short story collection by the writer Jhumpha Lahiri, returns to the major theme of her first, critically acclaimed collection, Interpreter of Maladies: the fate of Bengali...
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The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The author will be in conversation with John Mullan about her much-loved debut novel on 19 NovemberDate: Tuesday 19 NovemberTime: 7pm (doors open at 6.30pm)Venue: The Royal Geographical Society, 1...
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Book Club with Amy Tan
Join the author for a discussion of her international bestseller The Joy Luck Club at Kings Place on 28 NovemberDate: Thursday 28 NovemberTime: 7pm Venue: Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1...
View ArticleWilliam Boyd on James Bond – books podcast
William Boyd's latest mission was to the Guardian book club, where he read from his James Bond novel Solo and revealed some of the secrets behind its composition.He talked about how he started the...
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John Mullan on The Joy Luck Club – Guardian book club
Two female generations of Chinese immigrants in America remain for ever apartThough it is not essential to the enjoyment of Amy Tan's geometrically structured novel, some understanding of the rules of...
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Amy Tan on The Joy Luck Club – Guardian book club
Amy Tan was on holiday when the news of her mother's heart attack arrived. The fear that she had lost her for ever made the stories pour outI was a relative latecomer to writing fiction seriously – 35...
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Guardian Book Club: Bridget Jones
Tickets are still available for our event with Helen Fielding on 4 December - join us for a celebration of everyone's favourite singletonDate: Wednesday 4 DecemberTime: 7pm Venue: Hall One, Kings...
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John Mullan on Bridget Jones – Guardian book club
Because we know Bridget's story comes from Jane Austen, we also know roughly where it must goWe know Bridget Jones's Diary is based on Pride and Prejudice, and Bridget half knows it, too. She latches...
View ArticleAmy Tan on The Joy Luck Club – books podcast
Amy Tan came late to writing fiction, publishing her debut novel, The Joy Luck Club, in 1989 at the age of 37. This international bestseller is structured around the game mahjong, so when Tan came to...
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Book Club with Christos Tsiolkas
Join the author for a discussion of his award-winning debut novel The Slap at The Guardian on 21 JanuaryDate: Tuesday 21 JanuaryTime: 7pm (doors open at 6.30pm)Venue: The Scott Room, The Guardian,...
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Book Club with Armistead Maupin
The US novelist will be in conversation with John Mullan at The Tabernacle in London on 15 FebruaryDate: Saturday 15 FebruaryTime: 6pm (doors open at 5.30pm)Venue: The Tabernacle, 35 Powis Square,...
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New events for 2014: Christos Tsiolkas and Armistead Maupin
Christos Tsiolkas talks about his debut novel The Slap and Armistead Maupin joins John Mullan for a celebration of his much-loved Tales of the City seriesChristos Tsiolkas: The SlapTuesday 21 January,...
View ArticleJoanna Trollope and Fay Weldon discuss Jane Austen - books podcast
The Austen celebrations roll on, with last year's 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice followed in 2014 by the aniversary of Mansfield Park. So we teamed up with the Folio Society for a special...
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