Publication date: 2008-04-07
Dewey code: 791.43028092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.71
Review Heath Ledger - His Beautiful Life and Mysterious Death / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-10-01
Dewey code: 900
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.09
Review Daughters of Arabia / Bantam Books:
Publication date: 2008-11-01
Dewey code: 781
RRP: £18.95
Price: £10.95
Review So You Want to be a Rock'n'Roll Star: The Byrds; Day-by-day 1965-73: The "Byrds" Day-by-day 1965-73 / Jawbone:
Publication date: 2006-06-29
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.99
Review Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog / Hodder & Stoughton:
Authors
- Adam Goodfellow
- Nicole Golding
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-04-01
Dewey code: 636
RRP: £7.99
Price: £6.39
Review Whispering Back / Ebury Press:
Creator: Mark Salisbury
Edition: 2#Revised#e.
Publication date: 2006-03-02
Dewey code: 791.430233092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.53
Review Burton on Burton / Faber and Faber:Hollywood's relationship with Tim Burton has always been a little uneasy. A fiercely individual artist working within the constraints of the studio system, Burton has made some incredibly successful films-notably the 1989 blockbuster Batman and its first sequel-but the industry just doesn't know what to make of him. In the Foreword to this book, Burton favourite Johnny Depp (Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow) observes that "I have never seen someone so obviously out of place fit right in. His way. " Taking the form of an extended interview, Burton on Burton allows the director space to discuss his films, and to digress where this seems illuminating; it also includes an impressive selection of film stills and Burton's drawings. Mark Salisbury does not so much question Burton, as guide the director through his own career, commenting where necessary but managing never to seem intrusive. Burton discusses his childhood and his often unhappy time at Disney ("I would sit in the closet a lot of the time and not come out"), before moving on to offer a fascinating insight into his idiosyncratic body of work. Burton comes across as a man in love with "the joy of creating", but one who is refreshingly lacking in pretensions. He describes himself as a "commercial director", taking the financial investment which is put into his films very seriously, and saying of his work that "I'm very wary of analysing it too intellectually. " At the same time, he has a genuine enthusiasm for cinema, discussing his influences-which range from Godzilla to Fellini-but stressing that he never aims for a literal homage to a favourite film. [+]The director's enthusiasm is infectious. This an essential volume for Burton's fans, and an entertaining read for anyone else-it's hard not to like a director who (discussing Mars Attacks) declares that "It seemed like a good idea to just blow away celebrities with ray-guns. " -John Oates.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-10-03
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.78
Review Paula: My Story So Far / Pocket Books:
Authors
- Ashley Walton
- Phil Dampier
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.99
Review Duke of Hazard: The Wit and Wisdom of Prince Philip / Book Guild Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-06-05
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.93
Review Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia (Hodder Great Reads) / Hodder Paperbacks:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-08-15
Dewey code: 635
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.94
Review The Jewel Garden: A Story of Despair and Redemption / Hodder & Stoughton:
Publication date: 2008-09-01
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.33
Review My Life as a Wife: Love, Liquor and What to Do About the Other Women / Timewell Press:
Authors
- "Meat Loaf"; David Dalton
Publication date: 2000-07-06
Dewey code: 781
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.05
Review To Hell and Back: An Autobiography / Virgin Books:"Stories are like legal tender in Texas; the stranger the better. It's not that people in Texas are particularly morbid or anything. It's just that they love stories, and the best stories naturally have some bizarre aspect to them. " That's Meat's summation of his home state, and a read of To Hell And Back proves he's a Dallas boy through and through. It's fantastic to report that this is the huge, bombastic rags-to-riches-back-to-rags-back-to-riches tale that it really should be, with Meat coming across as a thoroughly charismatic madman-with thanks, no doubt, to the homely style and incisive editing of ghostwriter David Dalton. The gothic-styled To Hell And Back is replete with tales of fingerless drummers, arms-dealing managers and perpetually overdosing lead guitarists, and while Meat seems slightly horrified by his own excesses, even the doldrums are here in gory detail. "I've blacked out the whole thing," says Meat, of laying Mum to rest, "but apparently what I did at the funeral service was pull my mother out of the casket and say they couldn't have her. I actually lifted her into my arms, and people were horrified. " From the depths of cocaine psychosis, all paid for by the multi-million selling Bat Out Of Hell, Meat pulls back from the brink and when Bat Out Of Hell II makes him a superstar again, even the critics are onside. "When Rolling Stone reviewed the concert in Madison Square Garden and gave us a rave, I nearly had a heart attack and died. [+]I literally got dizzy, fainted" explains Meat, proudly. Steady on, big guy-what they're saying about To Hell And Back might just spark off a full cardiac arrest. -Louis Pattison "Stories are like legal tender in Texas; the stranger the better. It's not that people in Texas are particularly morbid or anything. It's just that they love stories, and the best stories naturally have some bizarre aspect to them. " That's Meat's summation of his home state, and a read of To Hell And Back proves he's a Dallas boy through and through. It's fantastic to report that this is the huge, bombastic rags-to-riches-back-to-rags-back-to-riches tale that it really should be, with Meat coming across as a thoroughly charismatic madman-with thanks, no doubt, to the homely style and incisive editing of ghost-writer David Dalton. The gothic-styled To Hell And Back is replete with tales of fingerless drummers, arms-dealing managers, and perpetually overdosing lead guitarists, and while Meat seems slightly horrified by his own excesses, even the doldrums are here in gory detail. "I've blacked out the whole thing", says Meat, of laying Mom to rest, "but apparently what I did at the funereal service was pull my mother out of the casket and say they couldn't have her. I actually lifted her into my arms, and people were horrified". >From the depths of cocaine psychosis, all paid for by the multi-million selling Bat Out Of Hell, Meat pulls back from the brink and when Bat Out Of Hell II makes him a superstar again, even the critics are on-side. "When Rolling Stone reviewed the concert in Madison Square Garden and gave us a rave, I nearly had a heart attack and died. I literally got dizzy, fainted" explains Meat, proudly. Steady on, big guy-what they're saying about To Hell And Back might just spark off a full cardiac arrest. -Louis Pattison.
Creator: Barry J. Hugman
Publication date: 2008-08-07
Dewey code: 796.334092242
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.91
Review The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2008-09 (Pfa Footballers' Who's Who (Soccer)) / Mainstream Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-02-25
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.16
Review Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin) / Penguin:
Publication date: 2005-03
Dewey code: 940.53180922
RRP: £3.36
Price: £0.56
Review Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust / Scholastic Paperbacks:
Publication date: 2007-09-27
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.99
Review Skins / Independent Music Press:
Publication date: 2008-06-02
Dewey code: 796.3520922411
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.00
Review Tommy's Honour: The Extraordinary Story of Golf's Founding Father and Son / HarperSport:
Publication date: 2008-04-07
Dewey code: 790
RRP: £17.99
Price: £6.66
Review Trisha: As I Am / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Creator: Jack Vettriano
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-07-11
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.58
Review Lovers and Other Strangers: Paintings by Jack Vettriano / Pavilion Books:
Publication date: 2007-10-04
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.55
Review White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s / Serpent's Tail:
| Models & Brands:
Heath Ledger - His Beautiful Life and Mysterious Death, Daughters of Arabia, So You Want to be a Rock'n'Roll Star: The Byrds; Day-by-day 1965-73: The "Byrds" Day-by-day 1965-73, Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog, Whispering Back, Burton on Burton, Paula: My Story So Far, Duke of Hazard: The Wit and Wisdom of Prince Philip, Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia (Hodder Great Reads), The Jewel Garden: A Story of Despair and Redemption, My Life as a Wife: Love, Liquor and What to Do About the Other Women, To Hell and Back: An Autobiography, The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2008-09 (Pfa Footballers' Who's Who (Soccer)), Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin), Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust, Skins, Tommy's Honour: The Extraordinary Story of Golf's Founding Father and Son, Trisha: As I Am, Lovers and Other Strangers: Paintings by Jack Vettriano, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s |
