Publication date: 2005-07-04
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.16
Review Mantrapped / HarperPerennial:
Creator: Sheridan Morley
Edition: Min
Publication date: 2000-11-01
Dewey code: 080
RRP: £3.50
Price: £0.01
Review The Quotable Oscar Wilde (Miniature Editions) / Running Press Miniature Editions:
Creator: Paula Rego
Publication date: 2008-09-15
RRP: £7.95
Price: £7.94
Review Poetry Review: (Autumn 2008 98:3): Where Now for Political Culture?: (Autumn 2008 98:3) / Poetry Society:
Publication date: 2008-11-15
Dewey code: 853.912
RRP: £36.50
Price: £28.36
Review Cesare Pavese and America: Life, Love, and Literature / University of Massachusetts Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-05
Dewey code: 823.914
Price: £9.41
Review Moab Is My Washpot / Soho Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1994-09-01
Dewey code: 920
Price: £8.99
Review Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford / Sceptre:
Publication date: 2008-07-17
RRP: £15.00
Price: £12.59
Review Wednesday Early Closing / Faber Finds:
Publication date: 2005-05-19
Dewey code: 741
RRP: £12.99
Price: £24.45
Review Embroideries / Jonathan Cape Ltd:
Edition: Revised edition
Publication date: 2008-01-15
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £21.50
Price: £9.93
Review Louis Auchincloss: A Writer's Life / University of South Carolina Press:
Publication date: 2004-10-29
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.90
Review Siegfried Sassoon: Making of a War Poet v. 1 / Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd:
Creator: Anthony Phillips
Publication date: 2004-06-24
Dewey code: 891.723
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.44
Review A Life in Letters (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Edition: Ballantine Books Ed
Publication date: 1995-02-14
Dewey code: 818.54
RRP: £9.09
Price: £4.46
Review A Cat Abroad / Fawcett Books:
Publication date: 2003-11-17
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.49
Review The Opposite of Fate / Flamingo:
Creator: C. Winston
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1975-09-25
Price: £6.95
Review The Letters of Thomas Mann (Penguin Modern Classics) / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 1992-02-10
RRP: £17.99
Price: £80.71
Review The World Is My Home / Secker & Warburg:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-06-06
Dewey code: 920
Price: £9.99
Review Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee - The Creator of X-Men, Spider-Man, Incredible Hulk, Silver Surfer and the Fantastic Four / Boxtree Ltd:The excitement generated by Excelsior!, the long-awaited autobiography of an icon of the comic world that coincides with the release of the spring's most keenly anticipated blockbuster, Spider-Man, may not equal the frenzy the movie is creating, but many have been eagerly awaiting Stan Lee's revelations on how he created such immortal superheroes as the Fantastic Four, Daredevil, the X-Men and-oh, yes-Spider-Man. Lee is Marvel Comics veteran writer and creative director who almost single-handedly made comics hip-thanks to his innovations, campuses all over the US and the UK began to find comics de rigueur reading. The urbane, immensely likeable Lee has been in the comics business for over 40 years, and has long been its most articulate voice. This fascinating, handsomely illustrated memoir details the writer's life from childhood in a modest Jewish family in New York to getting his first story published in a magazine at seventeen, and his break into comics as jack-of-all trades at Timely Comics (Marvel's predecessor) where he met legendary artist Jack Kirby (his co-creator of most of the great Marvel superheroes). His talents didn't go unrecognised for long: he became creative director at 18. Lee enlisted when the war broke out and was one of only eight US Army playwrights alongside such stellar names as Frank Capra. Lee went back to comics after the war as the driving force behind Marvel, selling over two billion comics to readers of all ages throughout the world. Lee's memoir is always candid about such things as the shabby treatment he received at the hands of incompetent or avaricious bosses, and refreshingly up front about his bitter break with the two key illustrators who worked with him, Jack Kirby and Spider-Man artist Steve Ditko. The tone of voice here will be very familiar to those raised on Marvel Comics: it's a good-natured, winningly self-critical, utterly riveting read, and an essential curtain raiser for the Spider-Man movie. -Barry Forshaw.
Publication date: 2004-07-29
RRP: £18.99
Price: £4.98
Review From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker / Jonathan Cape Ltd:
Publication date: 1994-09-20
Price: £7.99
Review Seeing the Blossom: Two Interviews and a Lecture / Faber and Faber:
Publication date: 1998-08-20
RRP: £20.00
Price: £8.95
Review Jonathan Swift / Hutchinson:Jonathan Swift, satirical writer, clergyman, author of Gulliver's Travels, didn't like dirt or dirty people. His friend, Thomas Sheridan, described him as "one of the cleanliest men that ever lived. " His writing is full of scatological references and his verse reveals a disgust at the fact that women have bodily functions. It is this kind of visceral detail in which biographer Victoria Glendinning is interested. This is popular biography rather than an academic account of Swift's politics, writing and professional life. Taking a series of key characteristics/observations, the author builds chapters around them, drawing in the relevant material without adhering to strict chronology. The result is a "character portrait", which is a useful way of trying to get to grips with Swift, a man who evades easy analysis as his writing is so loaded with humour and political bias. Glendinning believes that you can't find Swift in his work so she seeks him out in private places; in letters to and from his young girlfriends, Stella and Vanessa, and in his relationships with powerful thinkers and writers of the time such as Alexander Pope. She finds a man full of contradictions-the sceptical clergyman, the Englishman in Ireland, the non-committal lover. Through suggestive detail and intelligent conjecture, Glendinning brings into focus England's most celebrated satirist. [+]-Hannah Griffiths.
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 1999-07-20
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.84
Review The World of Rob Donn (The Strathnaver Trilogy) / Saltire Society:
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