Creator: James Shaw
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 2005-11-10
Dewey code: 822.33
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.01
Review A Dictionary of Shakespeare (Oxford Paperback Reference) / OUP Oxford:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-09-12
Dewey code: 823.914
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.00
Review Burnt Diaries / Canongate Books Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1993-07-22
Dewey code: 920
Price: £9.99
Review Brendan Behan / Abacus:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1997-04-03
Dewey code: 362.764092
RRP: £6.99
Price: £4.17
Review Secret Life: The Diary of a Sex Addict / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Authors
- Lewis Ellingham
- Kevin Killian
Dewey code: 811.54
RRP: £28.95
Price: £14.95
Review Poet be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance / Wesleyan University Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1992-11-19
Price: £7.99
Review By Heart: Life of Elizabeth Smart / Flamingo:
Publication date: 1998-09-14
RRP: £16.95
Price: £1.99
Review Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch / Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd:"Like being chained to a corpse, isn't it?" This is a memoir, not a biography, with obvious resonance. John Bayley, former Professor of English at Oxford, and Iris Murdoch, philosopher and author, have been married for more than 45 years. She has shown the degenerative effects of Alzheimer's Disease for the last four years. The words quoted above were not, needless to say, his. He chronicles a shared experience that can no longer be shared except with those outside of it, and as such is vital for him as he copes, rather than grieves. He purposefully blurs the boundaries of past and present as he describes the marriage of two brilliant intellectuals, determinedly unworldly and collegiate, mixing wine and water (they are serial dippers) throughout Europe as they serenely move "closer and closer apart". When Iris's intellect deteriorates her dependency inevitably increases, and they are "sailing into the dark" (her words) until the end of the book, when Bayley contends that the voyage is over, and they have both arrived somewhere. It is the spiritual answer to her perpetual question: "When are we going?", and provides a quietly uplifting resolution. John Bayley has written a magnificent paean to their love. Without underplaying the realities of living with someone with Alzheimer's, he writes in a moving and dignified way, without sentimentality, of a woman rather than a condition, who is still every bit his wife, if even more his dependent. [+]He believes that their marriage released the child in Iris; now they watch Teletubbies together, wordlessly secure. -David Vincent.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1986
Dewey code: 823.914
Review Boy / Puffin:
Publication date: 1980-08
Dewey code: 895.111
Price: £30.00
Review Madman of Ch'u: Chinese Myth of Loyalty and Dissent / University of California Press:
Publication date: 1998-06
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £20.00
Price: £21.95
Review Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs / Little, Brown:
Authors
- Juliet Barker
- Charlotte Bronte
Publication date: 1998-05-11
Price: £12.99
Review The Brontes: A Life in Letters / Viking:
Creator: Andrew McNeillie
Publication date: 1978-08-24
Price: £20.00
Review The Diary: 1920-24 Vol 2 / The Hogarth Press Ltd:
Creator: Peter Ackroyd
Publication date: 2008-03-04
Dewey code: 823.8
Price: £5.33
Review Coffee with Dickens (Coffee With...Series) / Duncan Baird:
Publication date: 2000-10-26
Dewey code: 811.54
RRP: £43.00
Price: £38.70
Review Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life / OUP Oxford:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2007-03-15
Dewey code: 823.8
RRP: £18.50
Price: £8.70
Review Doctor Joe Bell: Model for Sherlock Holmes / Bowling Green University Popular Press,US:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-11-23
Dewey code: 941.101092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.76
Review Macbeth: Man and Myth / The History Press Ltd:
Publication date: 1998-12-31
Price: £1.99
Review Charles Dickens in Teesdale / Discovery Group of Publishing & Marketing Companie:
Publication date: 2003-08-28
RRP: £20.00
Price: £4.50
Review Tobias Smollett / Jonathan Cape:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2001-02-02
Dewey code: 821.709
RRP: £20.00
Price: £12.15
Review The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons and the Wordsworths in 1802 / Yale University Press:
Creator: D.K. Holm
Publication date: 2005-04-01
Dewey code: 741.5092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.10
Review R. Crumb: Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists) / University Press of Mississippi:
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