Anyone who has followed English football closely in recent years will have nodded along grimly with last night’s Panorama [available on iPlayer for the next 12 months, it seems], which examined the game’s worrying reliance on debt.
There was little that was new but a few nuggets made the programme worth watching. Reporter John Sweeney focused [...]
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Six authors recommend their favourite books
New York magazine asks six writers to list their six favourite books. William Gibson recommends sci-fi, Peter Carey offers his suggestions for historical fiction, Kathryn Harrison does memoirs, Simon Rich handles humour, Rebecca Skloot looks at science writing and the owner of the Mysterious Bookshop recommends some thrillers.
Of the 58 books listed, I’ve read just [...]
26 Books 2010: May
Three more books last month. Here they are:
Book 14: Hangover Square by Patrick HamiltonBook 15: Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto EcoBook 16: Why England Lose by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
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