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An accidental novelist

Sadie Jones thought she was a screenwriter until, as Alison Flood discovers, a film script spilled into prose
Authors admit 'falsehoods' in Rushdie memoir

News: Book alleging Salman Rushdie alienated guards during fatwa to be revised
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Boys against girls

From Ernest Hemingway to Ian McEwan, novelist Eli Gottlieb picks the 10 best literary battles of the sexes
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Japan: Marxist book turns bestseller 79 years on

News: Tale of rebellion among a fishing boat crew has become an unlikely summer hit in Japan
- Blog: How bestsellers chart the state of nations

Test your knowledge of Chinese literature

Quiz: You've had almost a fortnight to brush up your on Chinese literature in honour of the Olympics. Time to see if you're up to speed
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How utterly, splendidly ripping

Lucy Mangan says hurrah for the 'nanny-narrator' who introduced her and countless others to the joys of reading
- Blyton is voted UK's best-loved storyteller

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Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West by Benazir Bhutto

Review: Reconciliation by Benazir Bhutto
This book is testament to Benazir Bhutto's bravery says Mary Fitzgerald
Franz Kafka, party animal

Review: Excavating Kafka by James Hawes
Life wasn't really such a trial for the supposedly tortured artist, says his new biographer. Joanna Kavenna explains
- Blog: Nicholas Lezard on Kafka's guilty pleasures
Magic realism and blue-sky thinking

The latest graphic novels have everything - psychological complexity, masterly satire, out-of-this world artwork and no little dry humour
- Gallery: Master and Margarita in pictures

'Mine's a pint'

As a teenager, Joseph O'Connor was so enthralled by the work of John McGahern he used to copy out his short stories. It taught him how to write
New Tory stories

Linda Grant: Why the novels of Rachel Johnson tell us everything we need to know about the habits of the modern Tory
'He is the son of all of you'

Mahmoud Darwish, who died a week ago today, was one of the great Arab poets of modern times, writes Mourid Barghouti
- The laureate of all Arabs
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