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Novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford is told to change the name of her latest work ‘Blackie and Emma’

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Novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford is told toremove ‘Blackie’ from new book cover over publisher’s racism fears Barbara Taylor Bradford says book title Blackie and Emma has been scrapped She accused publishing house HarperCollins of pressuring her to change title Customers feared to misinterpret name Blackie for term of derision or insult  Taylor Bradford alleged publishers … Read more

WHAT BOOK would novelist Sebastian Barry take to a desert island?

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WHAT BOOK would novelist Sebastian Barry take to a desert island? Sebastian Barry would take Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert on a desert island    The Costa-winning novelist said Sir Philip Sidney’s The Old Arcadia left him cold He said he has no memory of being able to read until he was around eight  By Daily … Read more

WHAT BOOK would children’s and Gothic novelist Michelle Paver take to a desert island? 

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WHAT BOOK would children’s and Gothic novelist Michelle Paver take to a desert island? Michelle Paver is currently reading Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting Of Hill House She would take SAS Survival Handbook by John Wiseman to a desert island The novelist revealed My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter … Read more

‘There’s before Daisy died and there’s after’ says novelist Sadie Jones

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Novelist SADIE JONES was blindsided when her stepdaughter took her own life while under hospital supervision. Speaking for the first time, she tells Elizabeth Day why, two years on, the family are still searching for answers – and peace ‘There’s before Daisy and there’s after,’ says Sadie Jones. ‘Everything has changed. We are in a … Read more

Can’t sleep? Dizzying new memoir details novelist Samantha Harvey’s insomnia

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MEMOIR THE SHAPELESS UNEASE: A YEAR OF NOT SLEEPING  by Samantha Harvey (Cape £12.99, 192 pp)  There can be few people for whom Samantha Harvey’s dazzling, dizzying trip through the nightmare world of the sleepless will be completely foreign. Who among us hasn’t lain awake at night counting backwards from one thousand? I can sometimes … Read more

WHAT BOOK would novelist Sadie Jones take to a desert island? 

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WHAT BOOK would novelist Sadie Jones take to a desert island? Sadie Jones is currently reading My name Is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout She would take Middlemarch, Nicholas Nickleby or Vanity Fair to a desert island British novelist said The Bonfire Of The Vanities left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:03 GMT, 20 … Read more