While I said there were few surprises with the long list for the Booker Prize, one of the new names has an interesting and thought-provoking background.Ed...
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Booker Long-lister has Long Battle with Wikipedia
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, July 31, 2009 | 2:04 PM
BOOKER LONGLIST ANNOUNCED
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 | 2:05 PM
There are few surprises. The Booker Prize Longlist was announced this morning, and Sarah Hall's How to Paint a Dead Man is the only hope for independent publishers (with Random UK taking 5 slots). Coetzee is a two-time Booker winner; Byatt has won once.The...
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Joke finally seen after 79 years
I don't expect you to break out into hysterical laughter at this one, but a joke written by the playwright George Bernard Shaw has been found in an old...
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COVERS OF COLOR
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, July 24, 2009 | 3:43 PM
In a very interesting blog, well-traveled Australian YA author Justine Labalestier wonders why the girl pictured on the jacket of the US edition of her...
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SPY MOUSE LEADS A DOUBLE LIFE
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Thursday, July 23, 2009 | 2:05 PM
Considering that the whispers have all been about publishing, Spy Mouse waxed positively -- and most entertainingly -- eloquent in response to my frivolous...
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National Library Lecture Series, Wellington
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 | 6:33 PM
NATIONAL LIBRARY SOCIETYWINTER LECTURE SERIESTHE CHANGING FACE OFMODERN PUBLISHINGThe National Library Auditorium, Aitken Street, Wellington at 5.30 pmGuests...
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To Clap or not to Clap
My blog has been neglected (weak excuse: school holidays), and I'm not even going to "talk" about books or the written word now, but pass on a story by...
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Books that change your life
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Monday, July 13, 2009 | 7:31 PM
Small press publisher Jacqueline Church Simonds has just posted her list of books that changed her life. Every other book blogger does it, she says, so...
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Nigerian writer awarded African "Booker"
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Saturday, July 11, 2009 | 2:21 PM
Now, here is yet another writing prize I've never heard of before, and a very worthwhile and inspiring one, too -- even if some aspects of it are odd....
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Important new Captain Cook book
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Monday, July 6, 2009 | 3:48 PM
New Zealand's own expert on the life of James Cook, John Robson, has a new volume coming out in the UK, lovingly produced by Seaforth Publishing.According...
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Long-awaited sequel
Twenty years ago a novel set against the political backdrop of the newly independent India of the 1950s was published, and went on to sell more than...
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Whale Tale wins BBC non-fiction prize
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, July 3, 2009 | 2:40 PM
Whales, it seems, are the flavor of the month. A book named Leviathan has won the twenty-thousand-pound BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.No, not...
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Those galleances again
Those loyal souls who have been reading this blog since it first began may remember a mystery I posed when reading the logbook kept by Capt. Samuel Wallis...
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Sailor's diary from Nelson's time
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Thursday, July 2, 2009 | 4:05 PM
Anna Brady reports in the Antiques Trade Gazette that a treasure from the Nelson era has been sold for a record sum.This is a very rare bird indeed --...
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Long time, no blog
Yes, yes, I know it has been a while. I have been sailing in Tupaia territory, including the island of his birth, Raiatea (pictured), where a breathtaking...
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