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		<title>Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2017/fiction-books/12765/curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marko]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have to start by saying how hooked I was when reading this book. The plot was so tense and had me really thinking about what was going to happen. The plot was so open to interpretation (something the author mentioned in an interview), that I felt like it was all unfolding inside my head. It is a great feeling that you rarely experience whilst reading. I read this book very quickly; I was easily grabbed by it when I started reading it.
Now that I have mentioned the plot, here is a quick summary. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Dead Pass</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12740/the-dead-pass-by-colin-bateman</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2014 14:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[collingwood21]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Bateman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Belfast private detective Dan Starkey is approached by Moira Doherty about her missing son Billy, he is none too pleased. Sure, he needs the money that a new case will bring in, but this one means hiking all the way out to Derry. He drops the kindly old woman back at the bus station with every intention of turning the case down, but when the concerned mother turns out to have been a political firebrand and professional anarchist from back in the day, the case gets more interesting for him. Against his better judgement, he heads out to Derry. Moira, however, is nowhere to be found and the city is in upheaval after a body has been found on the city’s Peace Bridge. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The House of Dolls</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12734/the-house-of-dolls-david-hewson</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anjana Basu]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Hewson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pieter Vos is a top cop felled by dope and the disappearance of his daughter Anneliese three years ago, a disappearance that all his sleuthing skills was unable to crack. As a result he lost his partner to the politician Wim Prins  and all interest in life. However, Vos is recalled to life and Marnixstraat police bureau Amsterdam by the eerily similar disappearance of Prins’ daughter Katja – even though Prins refuses to believe that she has been kidnapped because the girl is a drug addict.    
Vos is dragged into police work again by the klutzy Bakker, a country bumpkin with red hair known as ‘the aspirant’ and made fun of by the big city cops. Bakker and he make a quirky team with a terrier called Sam thrown in for good measure, though Sam is not an ideal police dog and has no pretentions to it. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Visitors</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12725/the-visitors-rebecca-maskull</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[elkiedee]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca Maskull]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adeliza is an isolated, lonely child, until Lottie rescues her by teaching her a way to communicate. For Adeliza has lost the limited sight and hearing she was born with after an illness, and she has stopped speaking too. Her mother has retreated to her room and Adeliza becomes a frustrated and angry child, even violent. Then Lottie comes along and teaches her finger signing. Adeliza becomes an enthusiastic student, keen to explore the world about her. She starts to write to Lottie’s twin brother Caleb, and later gets to meet him. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Golem of Hollywood</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12714/the-golem-of-hollywood-by-jonathan-and-jesse-kellerman</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[collingwood21]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LAPD detective Jacob Lev sounds – and probably feels – like a bit of a cliché. Single, overworked and a borderline alcoholic, he habitually lets down his blind father Sam, promising to visit then letting work get in the way. Not that his work is interesting any more. Depressed and exhausted, his bosses have reacted to his failing productivity by demoting him to a dull job in the traffic division, crunching numbers that seem to have no effect on anything. Then, one morning, he awakes to find a beautiful brunette in his shabby apartment, who he has apparently spent the night with yet cannot remember meeting. As she leaves, an even greater mystery is about to enter his life – the news that some unspecified aspect of his skill set has seen him transferred from traffic into Special Projects, a unit that apparently no one else has heard of either. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>My Salinger Year</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/autobiography/12707/my-salinger-year-by-joanna-rakoff</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[elkiedee]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autobiography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joanna Rakoff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1996, Joanna Rakoff took a job at a prestigious New York City literary agency, lying about her ability to type on an electric typewriter. She found herself on a steep learning curve, needing to master the typewriter, an audio transcription machine, a new vocabulary and a set of unbreakable rules relating to a writer called Jerry. Her scary boss instructs her never to give people Jerry’s contact details, and to try and end phone conversations as quickly as possible. Only after the conversation does she notice the office shelves full of J D Salinger books and realise who “Jerry” is. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>No Country</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12702/no-country-kalyan-ray</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anjana Basu]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kalyan Ray]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This ambitious novel takes its title from Yeats and continues in an Irish vein bringing in everything that Bengali literature lovers know about Ireland, like the shadow of Ben Bulben, the oppressive landlords, beautiful Irish women with red hair and the Potato Famine, all of it written in the rhythms of Irish speech. No Country starts with a murder in modern America, with a cop from Hungary present, and then begins to move back in time. Kalyan Ray maps a violent past and present on a canvas in which identities are lost along with countries and lovers fall away. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>A Bad Character</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12690/a-bad-character-deepti-kapoor</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anjana Basu]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deepti Kapoor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For a long time the bad character in Deepti Kapoor’s debut novel seems to be Delhi which, with its coffee shops, its sleaze and its Sufi gathering dominates the book in poetic prose quickly delivered and very easy on the eye. The mysterious ‘he’ with his bulging eyes, dark skin and mouthful of teeth could quite easily be a metaphor for the city where a girl ripe for marriage and hemmed in by her Aunty looks for a chance of excitement and escape. Rana Dasgupta says as much in his blurb, this is 21st century Delhi shown up warts and all. Kapoor’s is a story of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, a search for self and a wish to damage on the heels of lost love. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Crossing the Line</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12675/crossing-the-line-kerry-wilkinson</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[collingwood21]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kerry Wilkinson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Released earlier this month, Crossing the Line is the eighth novel in Kerry Wilkinson’s Jessica Daniel series. I haven’t read any of the previous novels, but this one is intriguingly pitched as the start of “season 2”, a place where the plot arc allows new readers to more easily jump on board without feeling lost. For me this worked well; characters were introduced smoothly and gradually, while past events were referred to where necessary without ever feeling you were in the middle of an info-dump aimed at new readers. I had no problems picking this up as a newcomer, and indeed liked it enough to make me want to investigate some of the previous seven books featuring Jessica. It does make me wish that some other long-running novel series would think in terms of “seasons” to help bring new readers into their books without first trawling through an intimidating amount of back story, though. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Tea Chest</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12667/the-tea-chest-josephine-moon</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kingfisher]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Josephine Moon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Tea Chest is Josephine Moon’s first novel and it really is a welcome treat. It is the sort of book that you can lose yourself in for hours at a time as you get to know the characters and get drawn in to the story.

‘The Tea Chest’ in question is actually an old fashioned tea shop which sells a wonderful range of teas to suit every palate. Its former owner and inspired designer Simone has left her half share in the Tea Chest to her trusted employee Kate whose task is to continue the inspired and original concept as she tries to set up the store that Simone had planned in London. For this she will need a great deal of help and luckily two other women, Leila and Elizabeth, are both at a time of crisis in their own lives and are looking for employment.  From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>One Step Closer to You</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12663/one-step-closer-to-you-alice-peterson</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12663/one-step-closer-to-you-alice-peterson#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kingfisher]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alice Peterson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love Alice Peterson's books - what more can I say? I have never yet been disappointed by any of her books and each time I read the next one I can't believe that it will exceed my enjoyment of the last - but it always does. Which is why I am heartily declaring One Step Closer to You as my favourite read of the year so far.

One Step Closer to You tells the story of Polly Stephens, a recovering alcoholic, and her young son, Louis. She has managed to put her troubled childhood and an abusive relationship behind her and is now a good mother to her son and also enjoys her job working in a local bakery. She still needs the support of her sponsor and her weekly AA meetings though and at one of these meetings she is surprised to see a fellow parent, Ben, from the school that Louis attends. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/history/12654/if-walls-could-talk-an-intimate-history-of-the-home-by-lucy-worsley</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[collingwood21]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucy Worsley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are the sort of person who wonders when women started wearing knickers, what people did before the flushing toilet became standard, or why people in much of the past seemed to have feared eating fruit, then If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home is probably the book for you. Written by Lucy Worsley (Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces), it was prepared to accompany a BBC4 documentary of the same name that was first shown about three years ago (and which I unfortunately missed). Having seen several of Worsley’s other documentaries, though, I hoped that her engaging, chatty style would be as evident in her writing as it was in her presenting.

Divided into four sections, If Walls Could Talk gives us an informative and often surprising history of the bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen from the earliest sources available to the present day. Packed into a little over 300 pages plus about a dozen inserts of colour images, this is an awful lot to cover in a relatively small space. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Private India</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12649/private-india-james-patterson-ashwin-sanghi</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anjana Basu]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ashwin Sanghi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Patterson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a continuation of the Private series, one of James Patterson's most popular worldwide which is based around the exclusive detective agency, Private, headed by Jack Morgan with offices across the globe. In India, the setting is Mumbai, the centre of Bollywood glamour, glitz and finance which results in a collaboration between Ashwin Sanghi and the world’s No 1 thriller writer.

Ashwin Sanghi has been making headlines with books like Chanakya’s Chant and The Krishna Key. Given the fact that the thriller focuses on whisky swilling Santosh Wagh who is the Indian head of Private India, it is obvious that Sanghi’s contribution is vital to pad out the Mumbai crime details and to provide information that Patterson would not have had access to without in depth research. And one is tempted to give Sanghi credit for the Durga connection in the novel, which is probably not too presumptuous an assumption. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>A Cut Like Wound</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12644/cut-like-wound-anita-nair</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[koshkha]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thriller fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anita Nair]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[‘Cut Like Wound’ is the latest book by one of my favourite Indian writers, Anita Nair, and it’s a very new direction for her to take.She normally writes about the rotten lot of Indian women or complicated emotionally-charged romances between unlikely people. I certainly wasn’t expecting her to suddenly come out with a crime novel, apparently the first in a yet-to-be written series if the cover blurb of ‘Introducing Inspector Gowda’ is to be believed. I didn’t expect Nair to pack in all her literary fiction and go down the crime route - but of course I knew she’d do it well. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk

In a dark alley in Bangalore, the charred body of a young male prostitute is found one night by a passing photographer. Whilst initial suspicions are that the man has ‘just’ been set alight, an autopsy shows he shares the same marks around his neck as another man, found elsewhere and killed the same night. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Adultery</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12635/adultery-by-paulo-coelho</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 22:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[koshkha]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paulo Coelho]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adultery by Paulo Coelho is a beautifully written tale of unpleasant people doing unpleasant things to each other in the name of love, lust, boredom or depression. It’s a story where you’ll have to look quite hard to find anybody to like in amongst its cast of spoiled and over-privileged characters.

Linda is Swiss. She’s successful in her journalism career, she has a fabulous marriage to a man with lots of inherited wealth and whom she loves. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Conquest</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12629/conquest-by-john-connolly-and-jennifer-ridyard</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Ridyard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Connolly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Illyri had been waiting and watching for many years – using the very technology that Earth had created – before they came. They arrived through wormholes that allowed them to travel across vast reaches of space in the blink of an eye, invading and conquering Earth in a matter of mere days. Some of the advanced technology that they brought was to the benefit of humanity, bringing with it more reliable food and energy sources. But they also set themselves up in governance of the planet, taking resources and harvesting young people to fight the Illyri’s wars on other planets they had conquered. Seventeen years after their conquest and humanity is still fighting back against their new rulers, with resistance movements springing up in almost every country across the globe. Some parts of the world prove too hostile for even the Illyri to effectively govern, though: Afghanistan and the Scottish highlands being notable amongst them. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>How To Eat Out</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/humour/12624/how-to-eat-out-lessons-from-a-life-lived-mostly-in-restaurants-by-giles-coren</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[collingwood21]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giles Coren]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why would anyone read a book entitled How To Eat Out? I know how to eat out. You pick somewhere and book a table. You turn up at the agreed time and sit at the aforementioned table, pick what you want off the menu, then eat it and go home having spent quite a bit of money and often feeling a bit disappointed/anticlimactic/heartburny, wondering why on earth you bothered leaving the comforts of your own home in the first place. Oh yes, you fancied not having to wash up that evening. Well, that was worth the difficulty parking, the taut discussion on whose turn it was to be the designated driver, and the soggy-bottomed starter that will be reappearing sooner than you would have liked. My book on How To Eat Out would probably run to two words – don’t bother. But this is not my book, this is a book by The Times’ restaurant critic and sometime TV presenter, Giles Coren.]]></description>
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		<title>In the Light of What We Know</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12619/in-the-light-of-what-we-know-zia-haider-rahman</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 20:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anjana Basu]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zia Haider Rahman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A mysterious Bangladeshi friend thought long lost materialises at the door fresh returned from Afghanistan and a myriad wanderings. The friend is Pakistani and as pedigreed and privileged as the Bangladeshi Zafar is not. However rumours are rife about Zafar, ‘that that he had been spotted in Damascus, Tunis, or Islamabad, and that he had killed a man, fathered a child, and, absurdly it seemed, spied for British intelligence’. The list, tantalising as it may sound, is totally misleading. The conversations between the two friends consist of references to higher mathematics like Gödel’s incompleteness theorem which talks about claims that are true but cannot be proven. And in between the chapters are trending topics like the Wall Street crash, geopolitics, terrorism, the Bangladesh war. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Broken Glass, Broken Lives: A Jewish Girls’ Survival Story in Berlin</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/history/12612/broken-glass-broken-lives-a-jewish-girls-survival-story-in-berlin-rita-kluhn</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 20:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[koshkha]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autobiography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rita Kluhn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[‘Broken Glass Broken Lives’ is Rita Kuhn’s first hand account of growing up in Berlin in the 1930s and 40s during Hitler’s Nazi regime. Rita is Jewish, brought up as a practicing Jew, going to a Jewish school, wearing her yellow star along with all the others marked out for attention by the regime. The difference was that in the eyes of that same regime, Rita was somehow not quite Jewish enough.

In Rita’s case, her mother was a Jewish convert who gave up the religion she’d been born with in order to marry Rita’s father. As such, Rita’s mother was exempt from much of the abuse that was perpetrated on ‘born and bred’ Jews and Rita and her brother were classified as a Geltungsjuedin - or ‘Jews by law’. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Book of Life</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12602/the-book-of-life-by-deborah-harkness</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12602/the-book-of-life-by-deborah-harkness#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 21:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[collingwood21]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fantasy fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deborah Harkness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“It began with absence and desire. It began with blood and fear. It began with a discovery of witches.”


Quite literally, actually. Deborah Harkness’ bestselling All Souls Trilogy started with A Discovery of Witches in 2011, before moving onto Shadow of Night the year after and finally coming to a satisfying conclusion with The Book of Life, finally released this month to an impatient readership. I was fortunate enough to be part of the London pre-launch event for the book, which served as a very timely reminder as to why I had enjoyed the first two books in this series so much and why I was so lucky to get an advance review copy (signed by Deborah to boot). For those of you new to this superior supernatural fantasy, let me bring you up to speed. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Extraordinary Journey of The Fakir Who Got Trapped in an IKEA Wardrobe</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12590/the-extraordinary-journey-of-the-fakir-who-got-trapped-in-an-ikea-wardrobe-romain-puertolas</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[koshkha]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romain Puertolas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[‘The Extraordinary Journey of The Fakir who got Trapped in an IKEA Wardrobe’ by Romain Puertolas is one of those books whose title makes it a little hard to ignore. It’s an interesting technique to intrigue the potential reader with a title that seems to almost tell the story itself and I’m reminded by such classics as ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’ or ‘A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian’.

Romain Puertolas is a French writer and this book has already been a hit in his home country. His translator – Sam Taylor – has done an amazing job to take such a bizarre book with its many complex puns and jokes, and translate it into something digestible by an English speaking readership. Knowing a little about the reliance of French humourists on bad puns and word play, I’m impressed that Taylor has captured the spirit of that humour without forcing it on us too much. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Vanishing Witch</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12584/the-vanishing-witch-by-karen-maitland</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/fiction-books/12584/the-vanishing-witch-by-karen-maitland#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[collingwood21]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karen Maitland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[September 1380, Lincoln.

Set in a once prosperous city now in decline, with work becoming scarce and taxes rising to fund wars abroad, Karen Maitland’s novel The Vanishing Witch could be seen as something of a metaphor for our own times. Lincoln was once a mighty centre for the mightier English wool trade, but with the industry moving elsewhere, only a few merchants remain and numerous rivermen try to eke out a living transporting what shipments remain around the local waterways. England is in turmoil from the King’s ceaseless wars in France and Scotland, and he wants ever more from his subjects to pay for his armies and campaigns. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/society/12580/behind-the-beautiful-forevers-life-death-and-hope-in-a-mumbai-slum-katherine-boo</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2014 10:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[koshkha]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katherine Boo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Behind the Beautiful Forevers: LIfe, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by American writer Katherine Boo is a remarkable book that reads like the best of fiction despite being founded in fact. I read it the whole way through without realising that it wasn’t fiction which is probably testimony to the page-turning quality of her writing. I’ve not seen a non-fiction book about India quite so astonishing, amazing and insightful since Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro’s ‘Five Past Midnight in Bhopal’. Bearing in mind that the latter is one of the best books I’ve ever read, then you can take it that I’m seriously impressed by Behind the Beautiful Forevers. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Curious Book Fan attends launch of Deborah Harkness’ The Book of Life</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/creative/12574/curious-book-fan-attends-launch-of-deborah-harkness-the-book-of-life</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2014 21:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[collingwood21]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deborah Harkness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday evening, 4th July, I was lucky enough to be on the guest list for Headline’s launch event for Deborah Harkness’ latest release, The Book of Life. Having read, reviewed and enjoyed the previous two instalments in the Book of Souls trilogy (A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night), I was keen to expand on the interview I did with Deborah back in 2011 just as her first novel was about to be released. While I have seen many writers I admire at literature festivals, it is not often that I get chance to properly meet them and this evening was a fantastic chance to do just that. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Journey to the River Sea</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2014/children-books/12565/journey-to-the-river-sea-eva-ibbotson</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anjana Basu]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eva Ibbotson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This book by the Austrian born British author was published in 2001 and was since reissued with a foreword by Michael Mopurgo. ‘River Sea’ is the name the Indians who live in Brazil give to the broad Amazon and the book tells the story of the orphan Maia who sets out with her governess to find shelter with relatives who live in Brazil. Maia is very hopeful that they will be nice but, like many of Ibbotson’s adopted families, they turn out to be sadistic and in it only for the money. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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