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Kate Pullinger

March 2014

  • King Tut

    The Visitors review – the search for Tutankhamun

    A vivid portrait of Howard Carter emerges from this fictionalised story of his quest to uncover the tomb of the boy-king, writes Kate Pullinger

August 2013

  • Dogs of war … an Aegis private security detail guards US-made trucks following their delivery to Ira

    The Kills by Richard House – review

    A digitally augmented novel about the shady world of contractors in postwar Iraq deserves its Booker longlisting, writes Kate Pullinger

May 2012

  • Frankenstein app

    Frankenstein by Dave Morris – review

    Mary Shelley's novel has been recreated as an app. Kate Pullinger tries it out

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February 2008

  • double quotation markWriters can learn a lot from the Hollywood strike. We deserve a better deal from digital publishing

    Kate Pullinger

    Kate Pullinger:In the shift from print to digital, writers are in danger of losing out big time. Give us our digital dues!

January 2008

  • 'The city is mine'

    The home secretary Jacqui Smith says she feels unsafe walking London's streets after dark, and, undoubtedly, she's not alone. What a shame, says confirmed nightwalker Kate Pullinger - how could anyone not love a great city at night?

March 2007

  • Books blog
    Living with A Million Penguins: inside the wiki-novel

    Coordinating the collaborative internet project to create a 'wiki-novel' was exhausting, sometimes annoying - but also inspiring.

February 2007

  • Books blog
    A million authors

    The world's first wiki-novel, A Million Penguins, goes live today. In such uncharted literary territory, anything could happen, which is perfect.

December 2006

  • Books blog
    Fact is we need a better name for 'digital fiction'

    I love writing for online readers but it would be nice if there were a decent catch-all-term to describe this innovative new milieu.

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