Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1995-08
Dewey code: 818.303
RRP: £2.25
Price: £0.01
Review Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift) / Dover Publications Inc.:
Publication date: 2005-05-03
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.17
Review William Pitt the Younger: A Biography / HarperPerennial:
Publication date: 2008-07-03
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.11
Review The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street / Penguin:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-05-02
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £5.69
Review The King of Sunlight: How William Lever Cleaned Up the World / Corgi Books:
Publication date: 2007-04-26
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.07
Review The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom / Robinson Publishing:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-03-04
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.30
Review Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII / Vintage:
Creator: Richard Mabey
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2008-12-04
Dewey code: 508
RRP: £11.99
Price: £3.26
Review Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy (Penguin Modern Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Publication date: 2008-10-01
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £24.99
Price: £15.42
Review Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love / Verso Books:
Creator: Philip Boehm
Edition: New
Publication date: 2006-04-06
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.97
Review A Woman in Berlin: Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945 / Virago Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-05-03
Dewey code: 320.557092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.33
Review The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left / Penguin:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1986-10-30
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.32
Review Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall / Penguin:
Authors
- Cole C. Kingseed
- Dick Winters
Publication date: 2008-05-06
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.45
Review Beyond Band of Brothers / Berkley Caliber:
Publication date: 2008-03-03
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.11
Review Infidel / Pocket Books:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-06-06
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.07
Review French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour De France / Vintage:Comic writer Tim Moore trades his ailing Rolls Royce for a bicycle, a map and a water bottle in French Revolutions. This is a quest to pedal the route of the Tour de France, no mean feat for the fit, let alone a self-described suburban slouch. The resulting 2,256-haphazard-mile journey transforms Moore into an incredibly fit and passionately proud cyclist. Initially, Moore takes the "I will do it and it probably will kill me" approach. His normal perspective, as a stooge to life's misfortunes, plays well as he prepares to ride the route of the 2000 Tour de France. Moore is the everyman who pedalled in youth and now wouldn't ride a bike to the corner store. But unlike a traveller by car, train or plane, Moore has to navigate France under his own steam. Somewhere around the Ventoux, the world's windiest place, Moore starts to change. He becomes enraptured by the feat itself as mile by mile he realises he is no longer an accidental cyclist but a lean, mean cycling machine. Gradually, the narrative turns from travel to a personal quest. [+]Along the route, Moore's details of the heroes of the Tour make an excellent primer on this gruelling race and helps the uninitiated understand the frenzy that grips France each July as the races meanders through incidental villages, over mountains and, finally, into Paris. It is worth reading for that alone. Having survived mountains of pain, a disgusting diet and motels of dubious value, a new, muscular Moore concludes that "I might never leave my mark on the Tour, but that didn't matter. It has left its mark on me". To follow Moore's path of perspiration is certainly not a vacation. Yet, this curmudgeonly clever and inspirational book makes one want to do just that. "Old Father Time was catching up with Old Father Tim. If I didn't do it this year, I wouldn't because maybe next year I couldn't," he says before starting out. And that, as Tim Moore so surely points out, is what pushes any true traveller out the door. -Kathleen Buckley.
Creator: Charles Lysaght
Publication date: 2008-10-06
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.20
Review The "Times": Great Irish Lives: An Era in Obituaries (Times) / Times Books:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-08-03
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.89
Review Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth / Abacus:
Publication date: 2008-08-07
RRP: £30.00
Price: £15.00
Review Hitler / Allen Lane:Is there anything fresh to be said about Hitler? He is an icon, maybe the icon, of the 20th century. He was a failed artist with Wagnerian fantasies, a slob who could not get up in the morning, but he exposed the frailties of modern civilisation in a way that should still make us giddy. How? Was it his doing, or German society's? Professor Ian Kershaw has produced a work of definitive scholarship that will be the standard for years to come. It was badly needed; since Alan Bullock's 1952 classic Hitler: A Study In Tyranny and Joachim Fest's Hitler (originally published in 1973) there has been much valuable research, all of which Kershaw seems to have read (there are 200 pages of notes). Add to this the media (and, by extension, public) fascination with the nature of evil, and a resurgent interest in right-wing groups, and this book becomes long overdue. Kershaw deals rigorously with the bones of his subject's life. He has no truck with psychological padding, and calmly demolishes most of the quasi-facts that have sprung up-if in doubt, he allows space within the chronology. His description of the path to the Chancellorship, which was always more messy than messianic, is painful to behold but gripping to follow, and concludes in 1936 with Hitler at the height of his "Hubris". This is an important study of the character of power, as clearly written as it is intellectually engaging. -David Vincent.
Publication date: 2008-10-02
RRP: £20.00
Price: £10.88
Review China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation / Chatto & Windus:
Creator: Alan Howard
Publication date: 2008-06-05
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.06
Review The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, the Only Surviving Veteran of the Trenches / Hachette Audio:
Publication date: 2008-11-01
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.32
Review The Good Soldier: The Biography of Douglas Haig / Atlantic Books:
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