Meeting the English by Kate Clanchy
May 17th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Literary Giant seeks young man to push bathchair.
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Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
May 17th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport,
The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration by David Goodhart
May 16th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: David Goodhart tells the story of post-war immigration and charts a course for
A Delicate Truth by John le Carré
May 13th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain’s most precious colony, Gibraltar.
Adam Lively vs My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
May 13th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
The second part of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six volume autobiographical epic My Struggle has just been published in English. The books have
The 39 Steps (app)
May 11th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
John Buchan’s classic thriller – done like never before. It’s London, 1914, and Richard Hannay is framed for a murder
Allan Massie VS The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee
May 4th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
The Scotsman’s Allan Massie wasn’t cowed by JM Coetzee’s reputation: “The novel is at best evidence of what you can
Blood and Beauty by Sarah Dunant
May 2nd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: By the end of the fifteenth century,
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
May 1st, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
May 1st, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one…Afghanistan, 1952.
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
May 1st, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: One Sunday in 1988, thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts
Margaret Thatcher, The Authorised Biography Volume One: Not for Turning by Charles Moore
April 30th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The first volume of Charles Moore’s authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving
Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
April 24th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
Anyone who’s read the classic, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, knows Maya Angelou was raised by her paternal
Orwell Prize 2013 Shortlist and Winner
April 24th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
Scroll down for the winner and shortlist of the Orwell Prize 2013. Click on the covers to see what the
Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
April 23rd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
Diarmaid MacCulloch unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. He considers the surprisingly mixed attitudes
CS Lewis: A Life by Alister McGrath
April 23rd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
For more than half a century, C. S. Lewis’s Narnia series has captured the imagination of millions. In C. S.
Bookshelf: Autism
April 22nd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
To celebrate the first autism rom-com, The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, we’ve collected some of the latest and best
Women’s Prize for Fiction 2013 shortlist and winner
April 22nd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
The shortlist and winner for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Click on the covers to see what the critics
Neil McCormick vs A Prince Among Stones by Prince Rupert Loewenstein
April 22nd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
Telegraph reviewer Neil McCormick didn’t warm to Prince Rupert Loewenstein after reading his memoir A Prince Among Stones: ‘There is
Craig Brown vs Distant Intimacy by Frederic Raphael
April 22nd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
If you liked Public Enemies, the collected correspondence of Michel Houellebecq and Bernard Henry-Levy, then you will love Distant Intimacy, a book
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