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books by jonathan raban
For Love & Money: Writing, Reading, Travelling 1968-1987
Reportage, travel writings and literary criticism.
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A selection of Jonathan Raban's essays, reportage, travel writings and literary criticism, linked with a narrative thread that attempts the question 'Why do you write?'

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If someone were to come along, dig a moderately deep hole in my garden, give me a metal box and tell me I had half an hour to put together a 2006 time-capsule, Jonathan Raban's new novel is the first thing I'd grab.
Toby Litt, The Guardian, 2006-09-30 more >

We need sane voices in these times, and they don't come much saner, or indeed much more alert and stylish, than Jonathan Raban's.
Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian, 2006-04-15 more >
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the books
Surveillance
Explore the current political climate in this clever, unsettling novel set in a near-future Seattle More >
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My Holy War: Dispatches from the Home Front
Raban showcases his unparalleled ability to articulate an incisive intellectual position from the morass More >
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Waxwings
a caustic, affectionate commentary on the manic gyrations of millennial America More >
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Passage to Juneau: a sea and its meanings
"Gallivanting around the world in a small boat is a continuing education in one's limitless capacity for self-delusion." More >
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Badland: An American Romance
"No one has evoked with greater power the marriage of land and sky that gives this country both its beauty and its terror." More >
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Hunting Mr Heartbreak
An exhilarating, often deliciously funny book that is at once a travelogue, a social history, and a love letter to the United States. More >
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Soft City
Part fact, part fiction, it holds up a mirror to the modern city and finds there a stage for a unique personal drama. More >
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For Love & Money: Writing, Reading, Travelling 1968-1987
Reportage, travel writings and literary criticism. More >
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God, Man and Mrs. Thatcher
Provocative pamphlet More >
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Foreign Land
Foreign Land is an exquisitely moving tale of awkward relationships and quiet redemption. More >
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Coasting
“A lively, intensely personal recounting of a voyage into a gifted writer's country and self.” More >
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Old Glory
Witty, elegaic, and magnificently erudite, Old Glory is as filled with strong currents as the Mississippi itself. More >
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Arabia
A must read for anyone seeking to understand the Middle East and it's people. More >
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