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Articles about Books, ordered by date. 
Beyond Reach?
A fictionalized account of the 2005 Make Poverty History campaign.
Transforming Pakistan: Ways out of instability
Hilary Synnott’s book is a useful introduction to Pakistan’s past, present and possible future.
Murder without Borders
Vancouver-based journalist Terry Gould tells the stories of six journalists who paid with their lives for refusing to surrender their conviction that journalism is meant to be about ‘telling the truth’.
A Suitable Enemy
Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe
Natural Selection
Szperling's short, punchy novel paints a vivid pen-portrait of the savage and amoral nature of this stratum of Argentinean society.
Thursday Night Widows
Nominally a thriller, Thursday Night Widows is less concerned with the 'whodunnit' aspects of plotting than with a psychological dissection of a social class obsessed with bickering and petty jealousies as the pillars of their world dissolve.
2666
It takes a singular talent to make a book of 1,000 pages that is as hard to put down as it is to pick up. Despite its size, 2666 retains the agility of a thriller.
Working
A graphic adaptation of the book by Studs Terkel by Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle.
Murder In The Name Of Honour
A grim but compelling reading – a fitting testament to all the women killed who had sex outside marriage.
Cutting for Stone
An excellent first novel, teeming with memorable characters and dealing with momentous events; the sort of old-fashioned yarn in which the patient reader can become immersed.
Broken Glass
A multi-layered tribute to the human spirit – beaten but not broken, and laughing drunkenly in the face of adversity.
South African SPECIAL
A selection of post-election South African reading.
The Children's Hours
A collection of stories about childhood from a stellar cast of authors from around the world, with all royalties going to Save the Children. Edited by Richard Zimler and Rasa Sekulovic.
Havana Fever
Like the best, most haunting bolero, Havana Fever is liable to linger in the mind well after its final phrases.
Long Time Coming
Short Writings from Zimbabwe, edited by Jane Morris.
The Final Bet
The first ever Arabic detective novel to be translated into English
Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity
Sander L Gilman delves into culture to demonstrate that our belief that fat can be identified with a number of character flaws
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