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Editor, Rachel Holmes

FEATURED IN THIS E-MAIL:
* Booker Prize 1999 Winner Announced
* What We're Reading
"Inconceivable"
by Ben Elton
"Beowulf"
by Seamus Heaney
"The Book of Revelation"
by Rupert Thompson
* Hanif Kureshi's "Midnight All Day": Exclusive excerpt
* Philip Hensher: Interview with this Waspish Wonder Boy
* Coming Soon...
* Bestsellers

***1999 BOOKER PRIZE WINNER: J.M. COETZEE, "DISGRACE"***
J.M. Coetzee is in favour with "Disgrace", his emotionally
austere allegory of life in the new South Africa. Repeating
his success in 1983 with "The Life and Times of Michael K",
Coetzee becomes the first author to win the Booker twice.
Buy it now at 50% Discount!
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Sharing the limelight at the Guildhall presentation were
shortlisted authors:

Anita Desai, for "Fasting, Feasting"
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0701168943/entertainments08

Ahdaf Soueif, for "The Map of Love"
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747543674/entertainments08

Andrew O'Hagan, for "Our Fathers"
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0571195024/entertainments08

Michael Frayn, for "Headlong"
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0571200516/entertainments08

Colm Toibin, for "The Blackwater Lightship"
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0330389858/entertainments08

***WHAT WE'RE READING***
"Inconceivable"
by Ben Elton
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0593044797/entertainments08
Lucy and Sam's thoroughly modern struggle to conceive a child
proves fertile ground for Elton's aspish wit in his new novel
"Inconceivable". The expected comedy kicks on every page,
cradled by a touching truth based on the author's own
experiences.

"Beowulf"
by Seamus Heaney
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/057120113X/entertainments08
The greatest of early English epic poems, "Beowulf" has been
newly translated by Nobel Prize-winning poet, Seamus Heaney.
Heaney has captured in modern poetic form this most famous of
Anglo-Saxon epics, bristling with a heroic dragon-slaying
Danish warrior and the fiendishly murderous anti-hero ghoul
Grendel. If literary pedigrees are anything to go by, this
should match Ted Hughes' award-winning rewrite of Ovid's
"Metamorphoses".

"The Book of Revelation"
by Rupert Thomson
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747544395/entertainments08
A dancer living in Amsterdam goes out to buy some cigarettes
for his girlfriend and is kidnapped by three women in Rupert
Thomson's daring new novel, "The Book of Revelation". Thomson
choreographs a strange, disturbing tale that poses profound
questions about how we relate to others when we have
experienced events that defy rationality, explanation or
resolution.

***HANIF KURESHI'S "MIDNIGHT ALL DAY": EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT***
Belletrist buddha of inner-city and suburban letters Hanif
Kureishi is as multitalented as his work is multicultural.
Playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter (for the epoch-defining
"My Beautiful Laundrette"), director and author, Kureishi's
work fuses the personal and the topical with a deft yet oblique
comic style. By exclusive arrangement with Faber & Faber,
Amazon.co.uk unfurls "The Umbrella", a short story excerpted
from his forthcoming new collection "Midnight All Day".
Literature & Fiction

***INTERVIEW WITH PHILIP HENSHER: WASPISH WONDER BOY***
Philip Hensher, the "waspish wonder boy" of English fiction
has had a productive and highly praised year, with the
publication of "Pleasured", his homage to a rapidly disappearing
Berlin prior to the fall of the Wall and "The Bedroom of the
Mister's Wife", his first collection of short stories, which
draws on the grand European tradition of Chekhov and V.S.
Pritchett. Hensher talked to Jerry Brotton about Europe, Mrs
Thatcher and his love of short stories.
Literature & Fiction

***COMING SOON...***
"Triomf"
by Marlene Van Niekerk
Publication date: 4 November, 1999
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316852023/entertainments08

"Blue at the Mizzen"
by Patrick O'Brien
Publication date: 1 November, 1999
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0002259591/entertainments08

"The Rose Grower"
by Michelle de Kretser
Publication date: 4 November, 1999
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0701169176/entertainments08

***LITERARY BESTSELLERS***
Amazon.co.uk's Literary Editor leafs through the Autumn bestsellers.

"Hearts in Atlantis"
by Stephen King
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0340738901/entertainments08

"Second Wind"
by Dick Francis
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0718144082/entertainments08

"Last Chance Saloon"
by Marian Keyes
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/071814385X/entertainments08

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