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

Katie Allen's News & Views

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...

Fifty Shades: the album?
08/08/2012

Music label EMI Classics is set to release a collection of music inspired by the bestselling...

Elvis' library card up for auction
08/08/2012

Elvis Presley's library card is to go up for auction next week, along with a collection of his...

So who's going to be on the Booker longlist?
24/07/2012

Forty-seven titles including J K Rowling's much anticipated The Casual Vacancy and Will...

McDermid to visit Northanger Abbey
18/07/2012

She is known for writing about vicious serial killers and the tortured mind of psychologist Tony...

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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