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Heather Brooke

British-American journalist and freedom of information campaigner; her requests and legal action helped expose the 2009 MPs' expenses scandal; author of Your Right to Know and The Silent State.

4 books on the record · 19 Aug 2012 – 19 Aug 2012

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas

The White Hotel runs the gamut – it starts off with an erotic poem, there’s a short story, a pseudo-journal entry, letters, but overall it is a novel.

on fivebooks.com · 19 Aug 2012 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.