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Trevor Phillips jumps into his next think tank
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[Evening Standard] - Ian McEwan's Sweet Tooth has been damned with a particularly faint insult by Adam Mars-Jones in the London Review of Books, which reviews the book's jacket. “The texture of the actual lamination used on the dust jacket, sticky yet amost slimy, creating
Google News: How did Martin Amis become so bad?
[Spiked] - Characters such as Nicola Six in London Fields may have been a caricature – but so are most of the characters in Martin Amis novels. As Adam Mars Jones explained, in a far more mannered review than this one, 'Amis doesn't so much inhabit his characters
Guardian: NW by Zadie Smith – review
[The Guardian] - The trailing plot threads aren't exactly tied off, more tucked back in. The real mystery of NW is that it falls so far short of being a successful novel, though it contains the makings of three or four. • Adam Mars-Jones's Cedilla is published by Faber.
Americans can't 'do' period, warns Fellowes
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[Evening Standard] magazine, founder of the literary Hatchet Job of the Year awards, which is angling for an extra £10-£30k in sponsorship to support its backing by The Fish Society, which last year gave away a year's supply of potted shrimp to winner Adam Mars-Jones.
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