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‘enchantment enough’

• Wednesday, 18 June, 2008 • Leave a Comment

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Banks’ new Culture novel

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• Thursday, 5 July, 2007 • 1 Comment

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    The Vintner's Luck, Elizabeth Knox
    The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst
    Dead Air, Iain Banks
    The Use of Weapons, Iain M Banks
    Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
    Friendly Fire, Patrick Gale
    A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
    Night Letters, Robert Dessaix
    Miss Garnet's Angel, Salley Vickers
    Toast, Nigel Slater
    A Home at the End of the World, Michael Cunningham
    A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon
    Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
    Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban
    His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
    Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
    Atonement, Ian McEwan
    The Divided World, Owen Marshall
    The Way I Found Her, Rose Tremain
    The Book of Salt, Monique Truong
    Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes
    The Fragrant Harbour, John Lanchester
    The Moronic Inferno, Martin Amis
    If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino


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    amongst films to see are these

    2001 A Space Odyssey [Kubrick] Apartment Zero [Donovan] Beautiful Thing [Macdonald] Bladerunner [Scott] Cabaret [Fosse] Dead Poets Society [Weir] Diva [Beineix] Gattaca [Niccol] In My Father's Den [McGann] In the Mood for Love [Wong] L’auberge espagnole [Klapisch] Le Confessional [Lepage] Like Minds [Read] Lilies [Greyson] Love and Human Remains [Arcand] My Beautiful Laundrette [Frears] Sweet Sixteen [Loach] The History Boys [Hytner] The Lives of Others [von Donnersmarck] The Oyster Farmer [Reeves] The Servant [Losey] Wittgenstein [Jarman]

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