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

Katie Allen's News & Views

My Christmas Picks: Samit Basu
19/12/2012

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch. It's not just a fascinating fantasy/crime story,...

The National Book awards: The Winners
05/12/2012

E L James has won the Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year with her erotica smash-hit...

Maeve Binchy honoured at Irish Book Awards
23/11/2012

A Week in Winter, the final novel by much-loved novelist Maeve Binchy, who died earlier...

Hilary Mantel on Costa shortlist
20/11/2012

Hilary Mantel could be adding to her awards haul with a shortlisting for the Costa Novel Award...

Bad Sex for Tom Wolfe and Nicola Barker
20/11/2012

Tom Wolfe and Nicola Barker are among the authors to be subjected to "gentle chastisement" as...

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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