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Review: PAPERBACKS: Non-fiction: Losing the Dead by Lisa Appignanesi (Virago, pounds 8.99)
As a teenager Lisa Appignanesi found her parents exasperating, but after her father's death and with her mother losing her memory, she began to research their lives, drawing on documents and family recollections. This wistful memoir tells the story of how Hena and Aron, Polish Jews in wartime Poland, adopted \"Aryan\" identities to survive.
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The poems in Pindar's debut are surreal, erotic, satiric and laced throughout with a dark sense of humour.
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Review: PAPERBACKS: Non-fiction: Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life by Adam Feinstein (Bloomsbury, pounds 12.99)
The apolitical writer is a myth created and given impulse by modern-day capitalism,\" declared the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
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Review: PAPERBACKS: Non-fiction: Roads to Berlin by Cees Nooteboom, translated by Laura Watkinson (MacLehose, pounds 9.99)
The Dutch novelist and poet Cees Nooteboom first visited East Berlin in 1963 and he was in West Berlin when the Wall came down. Reunification was not about one country being \"welded back together\", he says, but a whole continent.
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Review: PAPERBACKS: Non-fiction: Big Data by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier (John Murray, pounds 9.99)
Thanks to the internet, social networking, smartphones and credit cards, more data is being collected and stored about us than ever before - a level of surveillance the Stasi could only dream about, say Mayer-Schonberger and Cukier in this informative introduction to the \"datafication\" of our lives.
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Review: PAPERBACKS: Non-fiction: Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth by Ed Howker and Shiv Malik (Icon, pounds 8.99)
Using many terrifying tables and graphs to back up their argument, Ed Howker and Shiv Malik show just how awful things have become for anyone born after September 1979.
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Review: PAPERBACKS: Non-fiction: Narcomania: How Britain Got Hooked on Drugs by Max Daly and Steve Sampson (Windmill, pounds 9.99)
Tory contender calls for liberal drug laws\" was the headline in 2005 when David Cameron MP looked favourably on legalisation. Once PM, however, he clammed up. This is the problem with \"British narco-politics\", argue Max Daly and Steve Sampson in this illuminating book: drugs cannot be debated honestly.
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Review: Paperbacks: The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel by Ilan Pappe (Yale, pounds 8.99)
Israel's \"New Historians\" are not so new any more (they emerged in the 1980s), but remain controversial. Ilan Pappe, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006), is no exception. Here he reminds us that Israel is not an exclusively Jewish state: at least 20% of its citizens are Palestinian. However, some Israeli citizens are more equal than others.
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Review: Paperbacks: Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America by Clive Stafford Smith (Vintage, pounds 9.99)
It seemed like an open-and-shut case: British businessman Kris Maharaj shot a business rival and his son in a Miami hotel room in 1986. Found guilty, he was sentenced to death, but continued to protest his innocence.
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