Creator: Thomas McDonnell
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 1994-06
Dewey code: 818.5409
RRP: £11.99
Price: £10.79
Review Reader / Bantam Doubleday Dell:
Publication date: 2002-05-09
Dewey code: 641
RRP: £20.00
Price: £53.73
Review Dear Francesca / Ebury Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-02-24
Dewey code: 616.890092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.88
Review Prozac Diary / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-05
Dewey code: 730.92
RRP: £13.03
Price: £7.61
Review Mythic Giacometti / Farrar Straus Giroux:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 2002-06-28
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £16.99
Price: £14.23
Review Josephus / Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-04-21
Dewey code: 294.60922
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.22
Review SIKH GURUS: Their Lives and Teachings / HIMALAYAN INSTITUTE PRESS:
Publication date: 2000-09-17
Dewey code: 616.89820092
RRP: £22.99
Price: £12.49
Review Autism in History: The Case of Hugh Blair of Borgue / WileyBlackwell:
Publication date: 1995-01-01
Dewey code: 241.66
Price: £7.99
Review Setting Love in Order: Hope and Healing for the Homosexual / Baker Books:
Publication date: 2007-02-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.50
Review The Road He Travelled: The Revealing Biography of M Scott Peck / Rider & Co:
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 1994-11-01
Dewey code: 410.92
RRP: £11.95
Price: £9.99
Review Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes / University of California Press:
Publication date: 2008-07-29
Dewey code: 100
RRP: £14.99
Price: £12.32
Review Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts / Acumen Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-10-31
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £29.55
Price: £21.32
Review The Nun of Kenmare: An Autobiography (1889) / Kessinger Publishing:
Creator: Robert Silvers
Publication date: 2002-04
Dewey code: 109
RRP: £9.74
Price: £3.96
Review The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin / New York Review of Books:
Authors
- Erin Brockovich
- Marc Eliot
Publication date: 2002-12-01
Dewey code: 158
RRP: £7.99
Price: £12.95
Review Take It from Me!: Life's a Struggle But You Can Win / McGraw-Hill Inc.,US:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1991-01-28
Dewey code: 184
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.92
Review Plato for Beginners (A Writers & Readers beginners documentary comic book) / Writers and Readers:
Publication date: 2001-01-01
RRP: £9.95
Price: £9.95
Review Just Visiting: Memoirs of a Health Visitor / Woodfield Publishing:
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.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-10-03
Price: £8.99
Review No Ordinary Man / Coronet Books:It is quoted in No Ordinary Man that 10 days before he died of prostate cancer at the beginning of 2001, George Carman whispered quietly to his son, Dominic: "I'm not going to be able to do it," he said. "You'd better do it instead". After a lifetime at the Bar during which he had risen to become one of the highest profile barristers in British legal history, Carman's decision to ask his son to write his biography may just have proved to be the one of the few gambles he took that backfired. For sure we get plenty of details and insight into his celebrity trials, involving Jeremy Thorpe, Elton John, Tom Cruise, the Hamiltons, Jonathan Aitken et al, but what sticks in the mind is the portrait of Carman the private man. Dominic pulls no punches as his father emerges as a chain-smoking alcoholic with homosexual tendencies, who repeatedly beat all three of his wives. Some may view this as the ultimate in filial disloyalty, while others may see it as an abusive bully getting his just desserts. More importantly than either, perhaps, it's honest biography. Those who reckon that the great and the good should be exempt from close personal examination, and that they should stand and fall by their achievements, miss several tricks. Getting to the very top often involves a ruthless trampling over the feelings of colleagues, friends and families and it is to Dominic's credit that he is prepared to lay bare the price his father paid for his years in the limelight. It certainly helps to explain how barristers like Carman can live with the knowledge that their advocacy has kept a guilty person out of prison, or more worryingly, put an innocent one inside. [+]We are told that Carman drew no pleasure from the fact that the Coronation Street star, Peter Adamson, admitted his guilt on charges of indecent assault five years after he was successfully defended, and yet Dominic goes on to say that "privately, many jokes were made about confessions emerging from other guilty people he had got off". Clearly, George was a man who liked to have things both ways. But Dominic's approach does leave just one last matter unsolved. Would his father be happy at the posthumous treatment he has received? On that one, the jury is likely to remain out. -John Crace.
Publication date: 2002-04-08
Dewey code: 487.1
RRP: £12.95
Price: £6.75
Review The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Authors
- Barry M. Goldwater
- John W. Dean
Dewey code: 973.92092
RRP: £15.99
Price: £11.72
Review Pure Goldwater / Palgrave Macmillan:
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