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

Katie Allen's News & Views

Victoria Pendleton in race for William Hill prize
10/10/2012

Olympic cyclist and "Strictly Come Dancing" contestant Victoria Pendleton could be on the blocks...

Rosen tells the truth about Roald Dahl
01/10/2012

Who wore size 15 Norweigan sandals and had a dog called Chopper?

According to Michael...

Finding the working class hero
25/09/2012

BBC4 is set to broadcast an adaptation of Room at the Top this week, John Braine's hit...

Nina Bawden dies
22/08/2012

Nina Bawden, the author of 48 novels for adults and children, has died today aged 87.

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Fifty publishers line up for biggest poetry event
15/08/2012

The largest poetry event of its kind is to take place in London next month, with Costa-winning...

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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