Authors
- Charles Foley
- Daniel Stashower
- Jon L. Lellenberg
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Review Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters / HarperPerennial:
Publication date: 2008-11-01
Dewey code: 821.912
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.22
Review Fatal Neglect: Who Killed Dylan Thomas? / Seren:
Publication date: 2002-08-01
RRP: £5.99
Price: £29.99
Review The Unauthorized Autobiography (Snicket, Lemony) / Egmont Books Ltd:Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography is bizarre, abstruse ("a word which here means 'cryptic'"), and truly entertaining. Would you expect anything less from the mystery man behind A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Bad Beginning, The Ersatz Elevator and so on. )? Virtually every detail of the volume has Snicket's indelible mark, from the book jacket to the copyright page text to the intentionally blurry and bewildering black-and-white photographs appearing throughout. An apparently false obituary for Lemony Snicket sets the stage for what turns into a series of mind-boggling bundles of coded information passed from hand to hand, gleaned from newspapers blowing through streets, pages from a journal addressed to "Dear Dairy", blueprints of ships, minutes from secret meetings, and a lot of edited and disputed commentary. The question is, do we finally discover the meaning of VFD? You know you're not going to get a straight answer. But any fan of Snicket will have a lot of fun trying. (ages 9 and older) -Emilie Coulter, Amazon. com.
Creator: Doris Elaine Sauter
Publication date: 2006-10-27
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.99
Review What If Our World Is Their Heaven?: The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick / Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-04-11
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £14.99
Price: £10.00
Review Dr. Johnson's Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World / John Murray Publishers Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-03-01
Dewey code: 920
Price: £15.00
Review Janet Frame: Complete Autobiography / Women's Press Ltd,The:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1997-05-19
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.92
Review Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist / Flamingo:
Publication date: 2008-06-01
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.94
Review Looking for Enid: The Mysterious and Inventive Life of Enid Blyton / Portobello Books Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1998-05-07
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.01
Review Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880-91 / Vintage:
Publication date: 2008-09-18
Dewey code: 741
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.34
Review Moresukine: Uploaded Weekly from Tokyo / NBM:
Creator: W. H. Auden
Edition: Tra
Publication date: 2006-10-10
Dewey code: 341.23092
RRP: £9.09
Price: £4.55
Review Markings (Vintage Spiritual Classics) / Vintage Books USA:
Publication date: 2005-01-17
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.01
Review Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson / HarperPerennial:
Publication date: 2005-01-27
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.30
Review Living to Tell the Tale / Penguin:
Publication date: 2000-03-02
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.42
Review Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (Vintage classics) / Vintage:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-07-01
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.98
Review Precious Lives / Vintage:In this sequel to her recent bestselling memoir, Hidden Lives, in which she told the story of the women in her family, the novelist and biographer Margaret Foster describes her father Arthur's life and death, structuring the narrative around the last six years of his life until his lingering death at the age of 96. As he begins to fail, Forster's beloved sister-in-law Marion is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and Forster compares the fierce struggles both Arthur and Marion put up against the inevitable, marvelling at their tenacity in the face of extreme humiliation and suffering. As she puts it, "These have been two stories not of life but of dying", so this is anything but a sentimental account of death, about which Forster ponders bleakly and with a bracing philosophical clarity. She sifts through her memories of growing up in Carlisle and builds up an often comical portrait of an irascible, routine-obsessed working-class man, who works hard for his family, hates hospitals and is scornful of self-pity. Arthur is as vivid as any of her fictional characters and Forster's calm account of his last few months in a nursing home, unable to hold on to his fiercely-guarded independence, unable to enjoy the landscapes of his beloved Lake District, is both moving and-in terms of his courage-inspiring. -Emily Ormond.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1988-08-18
Dewey code: 821.912
RRP: £15.99
Price: £11.98
Review Wilfred Owen: A Biography (Oxford Paperbacks) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2003-03-04
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £11.30
Price: £5.92
Review Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 1996-07-25
Dewey code: 782.421680268
RRP: £42.00
Price: £33.78
Review Lieder Line by Line: And Word for Word / OUP Oxford:
Creator: Edward Ardizzone
Edition: Illustrated edition
Publication date: 1986-09-01
RRP: £4.99
Price: £3.25
Review A Child's Christmas in Wales (Illus) / Orion Childrens:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-05-27
Dewey code: 814.54
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.99
Review Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim / Time Warner AudioBooks:Most of us would be lucky to be able to express ourselves in writing half as well as David Sedaris does in Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. But on top of his skills with the written word, the author also has substantial gifts as a performer, and he proves this on the audio version of the book. In his essay The Change in Me, Sedaris remembers that his mother was good at imitating people, and it's clear that he takes after her. Whether he's doing impressions of high-voiced brother Paul, or recalling times when he and his sisters tried to win good karma by speaking and acting like well-behaved, fairytale children, Sedaris's nuanced performance hits the right note in both the opening, comedic stories, and the more poignant essays that tend to come later in the reading. Sedaris's career is closely linked with two things: audio (he was discovered by NPR's Ira Glass), and the personal lives of himself and his family. In Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, he describes fights with his boyfriend, and of his sister-in-law's difficult pregnancy. When sister Lisa complains about the stories involving the family, he writes about that, too. Sedaris's latest provides more evidence that he is a great humorist, memoirist and raconteur, and readers are lucky to have the opportunity to know him so well. Perhaps they are luckier still not to know him personally. -Leah Weathersby, Amazon. [+]com.
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Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, Fatal Neglect: Who Killed Dylan Thomas?, The Unauthorized Autobiography (Snicket, Lemony), What If Our World Is Their Heaven?: The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick, Dr. Johnson's Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, Janet Frame: Complete Autobiography, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist, Looking for Enid: The Mysterious and Inventive Life of Enid Blyton, Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880-91, Moresukine: Uploaded Weekly from Tokyo, Markings (Vintage Spiritual Classics), Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson, Living to Tell the Tale, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (Vintage classics), Precious Lives, Wilfred Owen: A Biography (Oxford Paperbacks), Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet, Lieder Line by Line: And Word for Word, A Child's Christmas in Wales (Illus), Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim |
