Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-07-06
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.02
Review In My Wildest Dreams / Arrow Books Ltd:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2004-10-28
Dewey code: 833.912
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.42
Review Kafka: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 2008-04-03
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.42
Review Pilgrim State / Sceptre:
Creator: R. Wilks
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1990-09-27
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.53
Review My Childhood (Twentieth Century Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 2004-08-09
Dewey code: 508.092
Price: £10.00
Review The Saga of "Ring of Bright Water": The Enigma of Gavin Maxwell / Neil Wilson Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-05-01
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.49
Review The Last Leopard / Eland Publishing Ltd:
Creator: Jill Mann
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2004-01-12
Dewey code: 821.1
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.76
Review The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (Cambridge Companions to Literature) / Cambridge University Press:
Creator: Robert Crumb
Edition: 1st Ecco Ed
Publication date: 1998-04-24
Dewey code: 818.5403
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.32
Review Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship / HarperCollins Ecco:
Authors
- Michael Bloch
- James Lees-Milne
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.49
Review Diaries, 1942-1954 / John Murray:
Publication date: 2007-09-03
RRP: £20.00
Price: £3.69
Review Shakespeare's Wife / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Publication date: 2008-04-01
Price: £4.94
Review The Sum of Our Days / Fourth Estate Ltd:
Creator: Ahdaf Soueif
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-05-16
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.67
Review I Saw Ramallah / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-09-02
RRP: £7.99
Price: £6.38
Review Ways of Escape (Vintage Classics) / Vintage:
Edition: 1 Reprint
Publication date: 2000-04
Dewey code: 972.92
Price: £6.70
Review A Small Place / Farrar Straus Giroux:
Authors
- Klingel Ray, Joan Elizabeth PhD
Dewey code: 823.7
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.63
Review Jane Austen for Dummies (For Dummies) / John Wiley & Sons:
Authors
- Harvey Pekar
- Joyce Brabner
Dewey code: 362.1969940092
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.53
Review Our Cancer Year (American Splendor) / Four Walls Eight Windows:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-04-06
RRP: £11.99
Price: £6.55
Review Bruce Chatwin / Vintage:Bruce Chatwin was the golden child of the contemporary English novel; by the time he died of an AIDS-related illness aged 49 in January 1989 he had produced the startlingly original masterpieces that made his name. Chatwin came late to being a published writer; In Patagonia, his instant classic of what can loosely be termed "travel literature", came out in 1977. In the preceding years this precocious, intense figure had been an art specialist at Sotheby's, a journalist with The Sunday Times, an archaeologist and a restless, questing traveller. By the time his novel of studying the Aboriginal dreamtime in Australia, The Songlines, was published, he had gained a worldwide audience. An obsessive art collector, Chatwin also acquired people as he did fabulous objects. He took both male and female lovers while continuing to remain married to his wife Elizabeth, seemingly the most enduring relationship of his life. It is her cooperation and tenacity which enabled this biography to come about, as well as Nicholas Shakespeare's exhaustive research (the book was eight years in the making). It is the international span of Chatwin's experiences that makes the reader appreciate his desire to know all cultures and disciplines. There is some excellent, evocative writing here, particularly in Shakespeare's account of Chatwin's last weeks, his disappointment at not winning the Booker Prize for Utz and the detailed passage describing Chatwin's awful, miserable death surrounded by friends and family. There are a plethora of adjectives used to describe Chatwin such as "elusive", "mercurial", and "charismatic". [+]Yet what Nicholas Shakespeare brings across in this immense, excellent life of Chatwin is the complete aloneness of the man. He was a flamboyant fabulist, an unparalleled conversationalist, yet, as the Australian poet Les Murray is quoted as saying: "He was lonely and he wanted to be. He had those blue, implacable eyes that said: 'I will reject you, I will forget you, because neither you nor any other human being can give me what I want. '"-Catherine Taylor.
Publication date: 2007-10-04
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.92
Review The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography / Vintage:
Creator: Don Paterson
Publication date: 2004-10-01
Dewey code: 811
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.94
Review Don't Ask Me What I Mean: Modern Poets in Their Own Words / Picador:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2007-03-05
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.26
Review Mark Twain / Pocket Books:
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