will-self.com » Daily Telegraph http://will-self.com The official website of novelist and journalist Will Self Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:13:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Will Self’s book of the year http://will-self.com/2009/12/03/will-selfs-book-of-the-year/ http://will-self.com/2009/12/03/will-selfs-book-of-the-year/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:00:53 +0000 Chris H http://will-self.com/?p=1007 “Out in paperback this year was Steve Coll’s masterful The Bin Ladens (Penguin, £10.99). I read it on a trip to Dubai, and not since Jonathan Raban’s Arabia Through the Looking Glass have I read a better outsider’s take on the Arab world. Coll is exhaustive in his detail, but his writing crackles with energy.”

From the Daily Telegraph, November 28.

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To read the rest of the Daily Telegraph review of Self’s recent Archive on 4 programme, visit the Telegraph website.

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