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Profile of Katie Allen

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 Katie Allen is web editor of We Love This Book and The Bookseller.

Katie Allen's News & Views

New Niffenegger story for this autumn
24/01/2012

She is known for writing otherworldly tales about time-travelling love affairs and haunted...

Great Scott! The myths of the Antarctic expedition
23/01/2012

2012 marks the centenary of explorer Captain Scott’s tragic attempt to be the first to reach the...

Elton John to write charity book
09/01/2012

Pop icon Sir Elton John is to turn from piano to pen with a new book which will raise money for...

Winter reads
30/12/2011

The Siege by Helen Dunmore (Penguin)...

Owen Sheers to team up with Welsh Rugby Union
12/12/2011

Poet Owen Sheers is to swap sonnets for scrums after being picked for the Welsh Rugby Union's...

Katie Allen's Reviews

My Garden, The City and Me
Helen Babbs
Posted 06/07/2011

This little book is a hymn to the pleasures of city gardening, and of making your space, however unpromising, your own.

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The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman
Posted 21/07/2011

First published in hardback last year, Tom Rachman's newsroom-set The Imperfectionists has been released in paperback appropriately just as the British media has never been more on show.

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Booker Prize Longlist: A Cupboard Full of Coats
Yvette Edwards
Posted 31/08/2011

Tucked into the second paragraph of A Cupboard Full of Coats is the quietly poisonous phrase  “the night I killed my mother” – a line laden with guilt and sorrow which spread like bla

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Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography
Julian Assange
Posted 22/09/2011

Published today without the permission of its author and allegedly unfinished, Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography reads like a thriller.

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City Pick: New York
Heather Reyes
Posted 20/10/2011

Oxygen Books' range of “city-pick” titles collect the best bits of writing about a certain city.

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