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Dan Coxon House Of Meetings – Martin Amis See all books by Martin Amis at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com Any new Martin Amis book always comes with plenty of baggage, and House Of Meetings is no exception. As his first full-length fiction since

Ben Granger collides with Julie Burchill over several bottles of wine to seek out the dreadful truth on chavs, Stalin, Ariel Sharon and Morrissey   “Never meet your heroes; they always disappoint” runs the old saying. Invited from

Chris Hall serves up a slice of Will Self with the publication of his second collection of journalism, Feeding Frenzy Chris Hall: First off, congratulations on the birth of your new son, Luther. Will Self: Yeah, little baby Luther. He

Stephen Mitchelmore Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald See all books by W.G. Sebald at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com (Editor’s note: this review was written a couple of weeks prior to W.G. Sebald’s untimely death in a

Robert Clarke hears why Will Self has become an uncertain satirist No other author in recent years has divided the critics with such relish as Will Self. With, three novellas and two novels to his credit, and now a third collection of short stories,

Chris Hall gives a crash course in the fiction of JG Ballard Existing somewhere between the manifest edifices of Crash and Empire Of The Sun, the rest of JG Ballard’s fiction glides and grinds like vast tectonic plates.

Chris Mitchell finds out why Will Self doesn’t give a monkeys   Will Self is the man who brought a whole new meaning to the phrase “mile high club”. Unless you were in a apathy-induced coma

Chris Hall on the significance of names in fiction and film The importance of names in literature has nowhere been more typified than in recent attempts to pin down the elusive etymology of Beckett’s Godot. Following that farrago you can