Edition: 1st Da Capo Press Ed
Publication date: 1996-08-01
Dewey code: 813.52
RRP: £18.50
Price: £7.31
Review Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel: A Biography / Da Capo Press Inc:
Publication date: 1998-10-08
Dewey code: 811
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.84
Review Singing School: The Making of a Poet / John Murray Publishers Ltd:
Creator: Margaret Scott
Publication date: 2008-06-05
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £60.00
Price: £60.00
Review The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922 v. 5 (Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield) / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 2005-10-28
Dewey code: 871.01
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.95
Review Ovid: Love Songs (Ancients in Action): Love Songs (Ancients in Action) / Bristol Classical Press:
Publication date: 2004-08-04
Dewey code: 741.5973
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.99
Review American Elf Volume 1: The Collected Sketchbook Diaries Of James Kochalka: Collected Sketchbook Diaries of James Kochalka v. 1 / James Kochalka:
Authors
- Geoffrey Kendal
- Clare Colvin
Publication date: 1987-05-28
Price: £3.95
Review The Shakespeare Wallah: Autobiography / Penguin Books Ltd:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-08-28
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £18.99
Price: £0.01
Review The "Beatles", Football and Me / Headline Review:
Creator: Mike Jones
Publication date: 2004-01-19
Dewey code: 781
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.88
Review The Los Angeles Diaries / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-11-20
Dewey code: 790
RRP: £16.00
Price: £4.00
Review Ivor Novello (H Books) / Haus Publishing Limited:
Publication date: 1999-04-11
Price: £20.00
Review Enchanted Evening / Viking:
Publication date: 2008-10-07
Dewey code: 813.54
Price: £15.71
Review Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession / Knopf Publishing Group:
Publication date: 2001-11-30
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.49
Review Chaucer: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides) / Hodder Arnold:
Publication date: 2005-02-17
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.01
Review Swimming with My Father / Faber and Faber:
Creator: Leon Edel
Publication date: 1998-09-30
Dewey code: 813.4
RRP: £10.00
Price: £4.91
Review Letters from Palazzo Barbaro / Pushkin Press:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-04-21
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £10.44
Price: £2.66
Review Bradbury Chronicles (P.S. (Paperback)) / HarperCollins:
Publication date: 2005-09-01
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.46
Review Shakespeare: Muse of Fire: Successful Playwright and Businessman (c. 1595 - Opening of the Globe) v. 3: The Biography: Muse of Fire: Successful Playwright ... (C. 1595 - Opening of the Globe) v. 3 / Random House Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2000-02-17
Dewey code: 828.91209
RRP: £18.95
Price: £17.99
Review Vast Alchemies: The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake / Peter Owen Ltd:Reading this biography of Mervyn Peake one is left with undiluted admiration for his seemingly boundless creativity. Best known for his Gormenghast trilogy, which has now been introduced to a wider audience with the BBC's all-star television adaptation, Peake made his name as a painter first, one of the outstanding talents of his generation, and was also prodigious in his output in other media, notably his poetry and wonderfully interpreted illustrations of classics such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. G Peter Winnington, who has previously edited the Mervyn Peake Review and Peake Studies together with revised editions of the Gormenghast trilogy, is both a sympathetic and astute guide to the life and works of a remarkable talent. His considered appreciation offers much intriguing insight into the imagination of the man and the creative processes that brought forth such extraordinary creations, particularly Titus Groan, the first of the Gormenghast books. Peake comes across as a wonderful man-vivacious, considerate and humorous-as the book recounts his life from a childhood in China as the son of a missionary, through the development of his own distinctly idiosyncratic style on the Channel island of Sark to his years of marriage and fatherhood in London. In later life a degenerative illness prevented him from working and led eventually to a premature death, though the book doesn't dwell too long on this more tragic element which has been the focus of some previous accounts. This will be a fascinating read for fans of Peake's work and particularly for those who are interested in the act of artistic creation, but one feels that there may yet be a book to come that will more completely capture Peake's life and character, if, as seems likely, his reputation continues to grow. In part this is owing to the fact that Winnington has not been afforded permission to use all the material he would have liked to, but more noticeably, there are loose ends which leave the man shrouded in mystery, most notably when we are told, without any further comment, that there is little doubt he had at least one extramarital affair. Still, this is a fluent and highly readable book that is sure to enhance Peake's standing as one of the jewels of 20th-century British culture. -Alisdair Bowles.
Publication date: 2005-04-01
RRP: £10.50
Price: £5.75
Review An Insider's Guide to Robert Anton Wilson / New Falcon Publications,U.S.:
Publication date: 2000-03-30
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £25.00
Price: £31.65
Review Selected Letters: 1957-69 / Viking:
Creator: Simon Greaves
Edition: First
Publication date: 2005-06-30
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.95
Review A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Comic Book Form (Comic Book Shakespeare) / Timber Frame Publications Ltd:
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