Patterson, James - 7th Heaven

11:03pm Monday 14th July 2008

MUCH in the way that Father Christmas has elves to help out in the run up to Christmas, so I imagine James Patterson sits in a huge crime thriller storytelling factory bashing out novel after novel to satisfy the global demand.

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Clarkson, Jeremy - Don't Stop Me Now

5:22pm Saturday 12th July 2008

JEREMY Clarkson knows there's more to life than cars.

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Mosse, Kate - Sepulchre

4:39pm Saturday 12th July 2008

THE year is 1891 – young Léonie Vernier and her brother arrive in southwest France to stay with their aunt, whose mountain estate, the Domain, is famous in the region.

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Morgan, Judith and Neil - Dr Seuss and Mr Geisel

3:53pm Thursday 22nd May 2008

A NEW generation of children is being seduced by the eccentric Dr Seuss with the new film, Horton Hears A Who!

Ramsay, Gordon - Healthy Appetite

1:50pm Wednesday 21st May 2008

YOU are what you eat and everyone wants to be healthy and look their best.

Hosseini, Khaled - A Thousand Splendid Suns

11:48am Monday 28th January 2008

A THOUSAND Splendid Suns is the second literary offering from Khaled Hosseini, author of the bestselling novel The Kite Runner.

Frayn, Michael - Spies

4:23pm Friday 4th January 2008

SPIES is an A-level set text, and thus a book I have had to read a number of times. And the more you read this book, the more you resent the fact that Michael Frayn’s publishers ever asked him to write it.

French, Tana - In the Woods

5:21pm Thursday 3rd January 2008

TWENTY odd years ago Rob Ryan was the only one of three children to be found alive after they disappeared in woods near their homes.

Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner

5:16pm Thursday 3rd January 2008

WHEN a book is made into a film, it’s tempting to save the hours that could be spent reading and head straight to the cinema.

DeLillo, Don - Falling Man

10:14am Thursday 7th June 2007

SINCE his monumental Underworld, Don DeLillo has understandably been producing shorter works; if that was a magisterial secret history of America in the 20th century, this could be taken as the coda required since September 11, 2001.

Lords urge VAT reform

Updated 1:29pm Wednesday 20th August 2008

VAT rates should be reformed to make sustainable consumer goods "more economically attractive" as part of a bid to end the UK's throwaway culture, a Lords committee has suggested.

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