Creator: Irvine Welsh
Publication date: 2005-10-27
Dewey code: 796.334092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.23
Review Alive and Kicking: A Story of Crime, Addiction and Redemption in Glasgow's Gangland / Mainstream Publishing:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-07-27
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.74
Review Call Me Elizabeth: Wife, Mother, Escort / Time Warner Paperbacks:
Publication date: 2006-08-18
RRP: £7.95
Price: £3.63
Review An Adoption Diary / British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF):
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-10-02
Dewey code: 616.852620092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.98
Review Anorexia: A Stranger in the Family / Accent Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-04-17
RRP: £13.99
Price: £10.37
Review AQA A AS English Language: Student Book: Student's Book (Aqa Language for As) / Nelson Thornes Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-08-28
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.89
Review I Think There's Something Wrong with Me / Black Swan:
Publication date: 2003-03-27
RRP: £25.00
Price: £13.99
Review Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII / Chatto & Windus:David Starkey's massive Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII follows on the huge commercial success of Elizabeth. Like its predecessor, Starkey's latest book mixes its author's scholarly erudition with a mischievous eye for a contemporary comparison or salacious soundbite. Starkey's topic is, as he admits from the outset, "one of the world's great stories"-the lives, and deaths, of the six wives of King Henry VIII. The story has been told before, but as Starkey points out, it has been wrapped in the romantic myth of 19th-century historiography. Starkey's virtue lies in his return to the archives to unearth new evidence for his story of Henry's wives. The result is a weighty blockbuster that will annoy the purists but delight the popular reader. Henry is portrayed as a fairytale prince gradually transformed into a "prematurely aged and bloated monster". Starkey concludes that "like us, he expected marriage to make him happy", but this simple desire had increasingly disastrous consequences. Henry worked his way through a series of wives from Catherine of Aragon to Catherine Parr who, according to Starkey, encompass "the full range of female stereotypes: the Saint, the Schemer, the Doormat, the Dim Fat Girl, the Sexy Teenager, and the Bluestocking". While this tends to flatten out the complexity of many of Henry's wives, there is plenty on the cataclysmic impact of the Reformation, new evidence on Henry's first wife's marriage to his brother, and a reconsideration of Henry's final wife, Catherine Parr, as "the first Queen of the Age of Print", to keep even the most sceptical reader happy. [+]-Jerry Brotton.
Edition: 35
Publication date: 1998-03-20
Dewey code: 975.00496073
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.49
Review Black Like ME / E P Dutton & Co Inc:
Authors
- Joseph Persico
- Colin Powell
Publication date: 2003-02
Dewey code: 355.0092
RRP: £11.04
Price: £6.82
Review My American Journey / Ballantine Books:
Publication date: 2002-03-31
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.50
Review A Language Older Than Words / Souvenir Press Ltd:
Authors
- Cedella Marley
- Gerald Hausman
Dewey code: 158
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.73
Review 56 Thoughts from 56 Hope Road: The Sayings and Psalms of Bob Marley / Hampton Roads Publishing Co:
Publication date: 2008-05-05
Dewey code: 306
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.38
Review Last Letters to Loved Ones / Metro Books,London:
Edition: Reprinted Ed
Publication date: 1995-06-15
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.43
Review To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood / Brandon:
Publication date: 2007-07-26
RRP: £14.99
Price: £26.42
Review Truant: Notes from the Slippery Slope / John Murray Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-03-27
RRP: £25.00
Price: £13.99
Review Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII / Chatto & Windus:David Starkey's massive Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII follows on the huge commercial success of Elizabeth. Like its predecessor, Starkey's latest book mixes its author's scholarly erudition with a mischievous eye for a contemporary comparison or salacious soundbite. Starkey's topic is, as he admits from the outset, "one of the world's great stories"-the lives, and deaths, of the six wives of King Henry VIII. The story has been told before, but as Starkey points out, it has been wrapped in the romantic myth of 19th-century historiography. Starkey's virtue lies in his return to the archives to unearth new evidence for his story of Henry's wives. The result is a weighty blockbuster that will annoy the purists but delight the popular reader. Henry is portrayed as a fairytale prince gradually transformed into a "prematurely aged and bloated monster". Starkey concludes that "like us, he expected marriage to make him happy", but this simple desire had increasingly disastrous consequences. Henry worked his way through a series of wives from Catherine of Aragon to Catherine Parr who, according to Starkey, encompass "the full range of female stereotypes: the Saint, the Schemer, the Doormat, the Dim Fat Girl, the Sexy Teenager, and the Bluestocking". While this tends to flatten out the complexity of many of Henry's wives, there is plenty on the cataclysmic impact of the Reformation, new evidence on Henry's first wife's marriage to his brother, and a reconsideration of Henry's final wife, Catherine Parr, as "the first Queen of the Age of Print", to keep even the most sceptical reader happy. [+]-Jerry Brotton.
Publication date: 2003-05
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.94
Review Waiting for Snow in Havana / Scribner:Carlos Eire's memoir of his childhood in Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy explodes off the page with the smells, sights, and sounds of the tropics. But the most interesting aspect of his story is the story of the Revolution from a boy too young to know exactly what's happening. Just nine-years-old when Castro and his fellow revolutionaries overthrew Batista, Eire watched as relatives were arrested, property confiscated, and rights lost. Naturally, it was a confusing time for the boy, as his whole world was turned upside-down by factors both visible, such as militiamen, and invisible. "I woke up to the fact that something had gone awfully wrong with the world that day," writes Eire. "We stood there for a while, all of us, asking questions, complaining. it was the sheer shock of encountering a stupid rule that kept us there, loitering under the marquee. " The rule? The movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was suddenly off-limits to minors. [+]There is no love lost between the author-today a history and religious studies professor at Yale-and the man he calls a "ruthless dictator masquerading as a humanitarian. " Waiting for Snow in Havana is a cry from the heart of a boy torn from family, country, and way of life. Eire was 11 at the time he was shipped off to the US to live with strangers, and the fire still burns in him at the injustice of it. This fury propels his memoir, which is by turns cloying, sentimental, repetitious, and meandering. (Eire can, and does, go on for paragraphs about the shape of clouds. Federico Lorca he is not. ) But readers looking for insight into one of the century's most "successful" revolutions will come away from Waiting for Snow with a fresh perspective on a crucial period of Cuban, and world, history. -Shawn Conner, Amazon. ca.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1994-09-08
Dewey code: 305
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.50
Review Sold: Story of Modern-day Slavery / Time Warner Paperbacks:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1981-09-11
Dewey code: 791
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.70
Review Unreliable Memoirs: Autobiography (Picador Books) / Picador:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1996-02-23
Dewey code: 370.92
RRP: £1.90
Price: £0.01
Review Up from Slavery (Dover Thrift) / Dover Publications Inc.:
Publication date: 2008-09-18
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.10
Review Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Life, Love and Talking it Through: Life, Love and Talking It Through / John Murray Publishers Ltd:
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Alive and Kicking: A Story of Crime, Addiction and Redemption in Glasgow's Gangland, Call Me Elizabeth: Wife, Mother, Escort, An Adoption Diary, Anorexia: A Stranger in the Family, AQA A AS English Language: Student Book: Student's Book (Aqa Language for As), I Think There's Something Wrong with Me, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII, Black Like ME, My American Journey, A Language Older Than Words, 56 Thoughts from 56 Hope Road: The Sayings and Psalms of Bob Marley, Last Letters to Loved Ones, To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood, Truant: Notes from the Slippery Slope, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII, Waiting for Snow in Havana, Sold: Story of Modern-day Slavery, Unreliable Memoirs: Autobiography (Picador Books), Up from Slavery (Dover Thrift), Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Life, Love and Talking it Through: Life, Love and Talking It Through |
