Broadsheet books - this weekend's reviewed titles

Reviewed books - Saturday 14th November and Sunday 15th November

The Original of Laura: (Dying is Fun) a Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov

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Welcome to our broadsheet reviews page, looking at the pick of the new books reviewed in the weekend's papers.

The most reviewed book of the weekend was The Original of Laura: (Dying is Fun) a Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov, which had extensive review and feature coverage across the broadsheets, based around the story Nabokov had left strict instructions that the manuscript be burnt. He remains controversial...

"The sex in The Original of Laura is not so far from the traditional fare of Playboy magazine, with a troublingly paedophile twist..."

Jonathan Bate, The Sunday Telegraph

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The Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph

Independent and Independent on Sunday

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