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Critics and public figures on the books they just couldn't put down
Published December 1, 2008, 8:00 am, Guardian Unlimited
You don't have to be a novelist to love good writing. For our Christmas special, we asked a mix of public figures, Observer critics and people on the street to tell us which books thrilled them most this year
Hari Kunzru to Philip Pullman: writers and politicians pick the best reads of 2008
Published November 30, 2008, 1:29 am, Guardian Unlimited
Hari Kunzru Joseph O'Neill's Netherland is a melancholy and controlled novel about cricket. There aren't many of those around. JG Ballard is also a cricket fan, and his volume of autobiography, Miracles of Life , provides a key to his strange, hallucinatory fiction. I'm living in New York, and the only thing that's made me feel homesick is a photography book called No Such Thing As ...
Forgotten authors No 16: Margery Sharp
Published November 29, 2008, 4:16 pm, Independent
Her best-known book was for children, and although Disney bowdlerised it into animated tosh, it made Margery Sharp more famous than she would otherwise have been. The Rescuers concerned a pair of rodent agents for the Prisoners' Aid Society of Mice, sent on a mission that involves the daring rescue of a Norwegian poet and the thwarting of an evil Persian cat named Mamelouk.
Tilda Swinton: 'I'm not interested in acting skills'
Published November 29, 2008, 4:11 pm, Independent
What makes Tilda Swinton such a uniquely paradoxical screen presence? Simply this: she seems not altogether of this earth, yet she can be more downright earthy, even grubby, than just about any screen personality you can name.
Frustrated motorcyclist left seeing red
Published November 29, 2008, 4:16 am, The Hannibal Courier-Post
Loading multimedia... Steven Ragland of Hannibal sits on his Yamaha Virago 250, which he has discovered won't trigger stop lights to change at some intersections along U.S. 61 in Hannibal.
Film & Theatre: Cads, saints and fans in the limelight
Published November 27, 2008, 4:30 pm, Independent
Stockings are out for most performance books this Christmas, and people thinking of giving Taschen's Ingmar Bergman Archives or Stanley Kubrick Archives might find even a pillowcase inadequate. They will need deep pockets, too, since, at £120 and £39.99 respectively, the books don't come cheap. But it's hard to imagine a film-lover who would not be thrilled by these exhaustive explorations of ...
General fiction: Wizards of Oz surf into fiction's front rank
Published November 27, 2008, 4:21 pm, Independent
As midsummer approaches, what better moment to celebrate a magnificent year for the nation's fiction? Australian fiction, that is. The passion and prowess of novels from Australia published in Britain in 2008 routed every mouldy cliché. In The Lost Dog (Chatto & Windus, £16.99), Sri Lankan-born Michelle de Kretser turned her agile wit and scintillating prose to chic Melbourne and a watchful ...
An odyssey in black and white
Published November 27, 2008, 1:57 am, The New Statesman
The London African Film Festival in December provides a rare opportunity to see a series of old pictures from South Africa. Some are very early experiments in film, such as the silent Siliva the Zulu (1927) or De Voortrekkers (1916), both to be shown with a live piano accompaniment.
Short Story Competitions 2008 to 2009 Mslexia Mag
Published November 26, 2008, 7:11 am, BellaOnline
Short Story Competitions 2008 to 2009 are approaching,and the world's best writing magazine for women,Mslexia,has a great new contest - a competition I just might submit to. Women writers wanting to join me can get help on my Bellaonline short stories site or through a sub to Mslexia mag itself!
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