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

Katie Allen's News & Views

€100k win for Jon McGregor
14/06/2012

Jon McGregor has won the world's richest prize for a novel with his story about a group of...

Dylan Thomas festival to take place in 2014
07/06/2012

A new festival is to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Wales' most famous writer Dylan...

Ray Bradbury dies
06/06/2012

Fantasy and horror writer Ray Bradbury has died at the age of 91 after a long illness.
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Tale of Dickens' mistress for Abi Morgan
05/06/2012

The writer of Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady and 1950s-set drama The...

Caitlin Moran on poverty, porn and Miss Piggy
04/06/2012

Caitlin Moran is working on a Channel 4 sitcom, based on her life growing up in Wolverhampton....

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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