Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-04-26
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.47
Review Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years - A Memoir, 1945-67 / Methuen Publishing Ltd:
Creator: Alan Bishop
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-08-17
Dewey code: 940.48141
Price: £12.99
Review Chronicle Of Youth: War Diary, 1913-17 / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
Creator: Brendan Cahill
Edition: Min
Publication date: 1998-12
RRP: £3.50
Price: £0.12
Review The Quotable Churchill: A Prime Collection of Wit and Wisdom (Miniature Editions) / Running Press Miniature Editions:
Creator: Brian Brivati
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-06-28
Dewey code: 824.914
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.99
Review The Uncollected Michael Foot: Essays Old and New 1953-2003 / Politico's Publishing Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1993-08-05
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £7.99
Price: £129.65
Review The Wilder Shores Of Love / Phoenix:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1997-02-17
Price: £12.99
Review Scorsese on Scorsese (Directors on Directors) / Faber and Faber:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-04-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £15.74
Review Life Regained: Diaries, 1970-72 / Phoenix:Frances Partridge was married to the writer Ralph Partridge and is one of the last remaining members of the Bloomsbury set. Her friends included Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington. A keen diary writer for all of her life, it wasn't until she was in her seventies that she thought of publishing her writings. Life Regained forms the sixth volume, tracing the strike-ridden years in England of 1970-1972. It is an absolute delight. Those who loved the film Carrington will adore the simple brilliance of these memoirs, yet even the uninitiated will find something to treasure in her gently glittering prose style that is as capable of capturing the beauty of a spring day as it is the tedium of talking to a bore at a dinner party. Partridge is as old as the century, yet a die-hard bon viveur and her diary entries tell of parties that last until one in the morning, of regular dinner-dates in town, of long, late-night affectionate chats with friends over a bottle of whisky and of sun-filled sojourns in Spain and Corfu. But there is sadness as well; the illness of many of her close friends, the madness of her best friend Julia Strachey, her ceaseless missing of her dead husband, and the shadow of her own approaching old age. Its very English, and very Bloomsbury, and I defy any reader on finishing these diaries not to wish for the chance to share dinner with this most softly intelligent of writers. -Claire Allfree.
Edition: 1st HarperPerennial Ed
Publication date: 1993-05
Dewey code: 335.430947
Price: £8.47
Review How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed / HarperPerennial:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-02-17
Dewey code: 937.05092
RRP: £15.95
Price: £11.90
Review Letters to Atticus: v. 2 (Loeb Classical Library) / Loeb:
Creator: Peter Catterall
Publication date: 2003-06-06
RRP: £25.00
Price: £9.90
Review The Macmillan Diaries: Cabinet Years, 1950-1957: The Cabinet Years 1950-57: Cabinet Years, 1950-1957 / Macmillan:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-03-04
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.34
Review Green Hills of Africa (Vintage Classics) / Vintage:
Creator: Aindrias O'Cathasaigh
Publication date: 1997-10-15
Dewey code: 941.50821
RRP: £15.99
Price: £12.00
Review The Lost Writings / Pluto Press:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1998-09-15
Dewey code: 824.912
RRP: £17.99
Price: £10.53
Review Laughter on the Stairs (Merry Hall Trilogy) (Merry Hall Trilogy) / Timber Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-11-01
RRP: £13.99
Price: £11.29
Review The Hidden Huxley: Contempt and Compassion for the Masses / Faber and Faber:
Creator: Mina Curtiss
Edition: Rev. Ed
Publication date: 2006-09-05
Dewey code: 846.912
RRP: £11.99
Price: £6.79
Review The Letters of Marcel Proust / Turtle Point Press:
Publication date: 2001-04-02
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £12.00
Price: £1.00
Review Tunnel Visions: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher / Fourth Estate Ltd:Itinerant philosopher Christopher Ross' debut book Tunnel Visions-a deftly observant sideways glance at human nature when in transit or, more often, not-sprung from 16 months working as a Station Assistant for London Underground. Or Platform 6, northbound Victoria Line, at Oxford Circus station, to be precise. A series of notes from the Underground, it provides a placatory centre of calm and rationale in our increasingly eddying lives as Ross, previously a corporate lawyer, oriental carpet smuggler and Japanese soap actor, takes the McJob to find a personal space in which to ruminate. After the surreal procedures of the training school, he is allocated his own patch, of which he grows quickly proprietorial. In a collection of precise tableaux, he neither leans upon nor ignores the inevitable anecdotal luggage that accumulates, but relates it with philosophical detachment and, when necessary, an engaged moral probity. He observes the archetypal gaits of his commuters, sings harmonies with a busking act, witnesses the spit and polish applied for a visit by John Prescott, and a man emerge from a train tunnel after being told at the previous station that it would be quicker to walk. Green grapes, he learns, are more deadly than banana skins, though not as lethal as suicidal "one-unders" (or "track pizza", in unforgiving New York parlance). A captured mosquito turns out to be unknown in Britain, an ugly, beswaddled baby turns out to be a monkey, and a dog on a lead a domesticated fox. Nothing is what it seems, but only if you look. Like the best travel literature, Tunnel Visions chooses internal rather than external landscapes, and describes them with a steady calm eye. [+]From the autopilot of the Victoria Line trains to the sheep-like, but never sheepish, autopilot of his gaggles of passengers, the wisdom, and man-hours, Ross invests in this woefully under-resourced utility rewards with the best view from the other side of the Tube tracks since John Wain's novel The Smaller Sky, now sadly out-of-print. In the end the pessimism ground Ross down, but the Oxford Circus' loss was literature's gain, with this terrific, humane, utterly original legacy. -David Vincent.
Creator: Harriet Devine Jump
Publication date: 1999-02-16
RRP: £23.99
Price: £21.99
Review Women's Writing of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901: An Anthology (Women's Writing Anthologies) / Edinburgh University Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-04-01
Dewey code: 782.4216430268
Price: £12.99
Review Foolish/Unfoolish: Reflections on Love / Hyperion:
Creator: Billy Hartman
Edition: Re-issue
Publication date: 2006-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £12.91
Price: £5.06
Review A Life of Johnson (Naxos Audio) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 1989-07-01
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £15.95
Price: £12.36
Review Letters: Bks.I-VII v. 1 (Loeb Classical Library) / Loeb:
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