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	<title>LRB blog &#187; Deborah Friedell</title>
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		<title>Read it or be deported</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Friedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday I sat the ‘Life in the UK’ test, a requirement for foreign nationals who want to apply for citizenship or permanent leave to remain. My nearest test centre was in a dingy basement off the Essex Road. The fluorescent lights weren&#8217;t doing very well. The invigilators were stone-faced, a bit rude. I&#8217;d been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Woman Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Friedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Georgette Heyer&#8217;s advice for novelists, from Jennifer Kloester&#8217;s forthcoming biography: 1. Induce your publisher to hand over at once a sum of money grossly in excess of what the book is likely to be worth to him. This gives one a certain amount of incentive to write the thing, and may be achieved by various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I, Debt Collector</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Friedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more unlikely heroes in English literature is Dickens’s rent collector Pancks, a ‘dry, uncomfortable, dreary Plodder and Grubber’, who shows a ‘sagacity that nothing could baffle, and a patience and secrecy that nothing could tire&#8217; to determine that the Dorrits languishing in debtors’ prison are heirs to a fortune that ‘had long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highly Promotable</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 13:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Friedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;As if Joyce had sat down and written Sin City.&#8217; (Cape) &#8216;If Fred Astaire had been a novelist he&#8217;d have been Paul Bailey.&#8217; (Bloomsbury) &#8216;An homage to Miss Marple – or Miss Marple as a badass, paralysed Norwegian lesbian detective.&#8217; (Corvus) &#8216;Put Charles Dickens, Chuck Palahniuk and Ignatius Reilly into a blender&#8230;&#8217; (Beautiful Books) &#8216;A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subtitles: It&#8217;s Self-Explanatory</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Friedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently published (and possibly available from the London Review Bookshop): Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gave Us Life The Meerkats of Summer Farm: The True Story of Two Orphaned Meerkats and the Family Who Saved Them Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine Trawlerman: My Life at the Helm of [...]]]></description>
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