Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-09-28
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.66
Review Goodbye to All That (Penguin Modern Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Publication date: 2008-02-07
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.35
Review Georgette Heyer's Regency World / Arrow Books Ltd:
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2002-03-07
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.75
Review Dickens / Vintage:
Publication date: 2008-04-07
RRP: £20.00
Price: £10.12
Review For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-09-08
Dewey code: 811
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.19
Review The World's Wife / Picador:Elvis's wimpled sister rocks on in a convent she calls Graceland; Nancy Sinatra gets out her boots made for walking with the Kray Sisters; Mrs Midas misses the touch of her now dangerous golden-handed husband; and Queen Herod decrees the killing of each mother's son to protect her baby daughter in Carol Ann Duffy's startling new collection The World's Wife. Doubling is one of the most common themes-and stylistic ploys-of Western culture and thought, and the concept around which Duffy has ingeniously organised this profoundly playful collection. Mrs Midas, Mrs Aesop, Mrs Darwin, Frau Freud, Anne Hathaway, Mrs Rip Van Winkle, the Kray Sisters; these are some of the wives, and sisters, whose stories are told. These inventive, metaphorically precise poems offer much more, however, than just a recovery of the historical voice of her (supposedly) silenced indoors. Duffy dexterously rewrites Judao-Christian and classical mythologies, subverts fairytale and zestfully reinterprets the more modern myths of Darwin and Freud. Humour is the abundant keynote of this accessible collection. Mrs Rip Van Winkle enjoys the freedom to travel and paint allowed by her husband's permanent slumbers, "Until the day / I came home with pastel of Niagara / and he was sitting up in bed rattling Viagra. " Frau Freud analyses her over-exposure to "ding-a-ling, member and jock, / of todger and nudger and percy and cock," and confesses with irony to being, "as au fait with Hunt-the Salami / as Ms M. Lewinsky. " Mrs Aesop groans about her husbands unstoppable garrulousness: "By Christ, he could bore for Purgatory," and Mrs Darwin evolves the following summary her husband's research: "7 April 1852 Went to the Zoo. [+]I said to Him- Something about that Chimpanzee over there reminds me of you. " The World's Wife throws open the windows on the stuffy annals of historical myth and breezes through some of its highlights with a sense of revelry and laugh-out-loud observation. In this wry take on the historical ubiquity of heterosexual coupledom that permeates so many cultural myths, Duffy has separated vibrant women from the shadows of their more famous husbands and brothers, and divorced them from the distortions of historical silence. -Rachel Holmes.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-08-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.49
Review The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics) / Collins:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-11-30
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.83
Review Jane Austen: A Life / Penguin Books Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-02-25
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.00
Review Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin) / Penguin Books Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
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: 2006-04-06
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.30
Review 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare / Faber and Faber:
Publication date: 1998-04-09
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.74
Review How Proust Can Change Your Life / Picador:
Publication date: 2001-05-11
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.19
Review The Bridge Across Forever / Pan Books:Best-selling author Richard Bach explores the meaning of fate and soul mates in this modern-day fairy tale based on his real-life relationship with actor Leslie Parrish. "This is a story about a knight who was dying, and the princess who saved his life", Bach writes in his opening greeting. "It's a story about beauty and beasts and spells and fortresses, about death-powers that seem and life-powers that are". Yes, it is all that, and more. On the earthly plane this is about the riveting love affair between two fully human people who are willing to explore time travel and other dimensions together even as they grapple with the earthly struggles of intimacy, commitment, smothering and whose turn it is to cook. Their love affair and happy ending inspired many enthusiastic fans. Years later, some of these fans were devastated to discover that this match made in heaven didn't manage to stick (the couple are no longer together). Bach explains that lovers don't have to stay married forever in order to be lifetime soul mates. Read this as a lesson about love's enchantments and possibilities, but don't count on this book to keep you and your mate on the bridge across forever. -Gail Hudson.
Publication date: 2008-04-04
RRP: £20.00
Price: £10.99
Review The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul / Picador:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-02-10
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.99
Review Dry / Atlantic Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-06-05
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.61
Review Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Publication date: 2007-07-05
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.25
Review Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man / Penguin Books Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-01-03
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.92
Review Daphne Du Maurier / Arrow Books Ltd:
Creator: Leonard Rosoman
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1973-05-31
Dewey code: 921
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.10
Review As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-04-01
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.77
Review Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (Eminent Lives) / HarperPerennial:
Publication date: 2007-09-03
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.20
Review Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (Eminent Lives) / HarperPress:
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