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Blackwell Podcasts
The Blackwell Online podcasts bring a fantastic selection of in-depth author interviews straight to your PC.
Packed full with over 30 minutes of insight into some of the most fascinating titles available, you'll find a brand new podcast available on our website every two weeks.
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Netherland
Joseph O'Neill
In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal. In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers... More
Darwin's Island
Steve Jones
The Origin of Species is the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure the genius of Charles Darwin's other works. The Beagle voyage too, occupied only five of the fifty years... More
The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
Balram, the White Tiger, was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape... More
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Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 - Winner Announced
Marilynne Robinson has been named as the winner of the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel Home. The author pipped five other shortlisted writers to win the award and the £30,000 prize.
Fi Glover, chair of judges said the panel "were unanimously agreed" and that the book was "a profound work of art".
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The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables
Presents the narrative "Testament" of Cresseid that was set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, which completes the story of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde"... More
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