Authors
- William Miller
- Cedric Lucas
Publication date: 1997-04-04
Dewey code: 973.8092
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.92
Review Frederick Douglass: Last Day of Slavery / Lee & Low Books Inc:
Creator: Tony Martin
Publication date: 1990-07-05
Dewey code: 305.896073
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.89
Review Message to the People: Course of African Philosophy (On Grenada) / Majority Press, US:
Publication date: 2008-04-07
Dewey code: 362
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.58
Review The Throwaway Boy / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 1998-09
Dewey code: 951.0099
RRP: £19.95
Price: £11.35
Review Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors: The Reign-by-reign Record of the Rulers of Ancient China (Chronicle) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Authors
- Anne Frank
- Christopher Martin
- Michael Marland
Publication date: 1989-03-20
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £7.25
Price: £4.25
Review Diary of Anne Frank (New Longman Literature 14-18) / Longman:
Creator: Tony Martin
Publication date: 1990-07-05
Dewey code: 305.896073
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.89
Review Message to the People: Course of African Philosophy (On Grenada) / Majority Press, US:
Publication date: 2008-04-07
Dewey code: 362
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.58
Review The Throwaway Boy / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Authors
- Lance Armstrong
- Sally Jenkins
Dewey code: 796.62092
Price: £16.25
Review It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life / G P Putnam's Sons:
Publication date: 2005-05-26
Dewey code: 158
RRP: £8.99
Price: £15.00
Review George and Sam / Penguin Books Ltd:
Edition: 3Rev Ed
Publication date: 2007-02-01
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £12.95
Price: £7.28
Review Firemen at War: The Work of London's Fire Fighters in the Second World War / Jeremy Mills Publishing:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-04-15
Dewey code: 616.8510092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.70
Review Learning to Live with Huntington's Disease: One Family's Story / Jessica Kingsley Publishers:
Authors
- William S. Burroughs
- Allen Ginsberg
Edition: 4th Ed
Publication date: 2005-12-31
Dewey code: 818.54
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.45
Review The Yage Letters Redux / City Lights Books:
Publication date: 1997-10-15
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £16.99
Price: £23.98
Review Violent Delights / Blake Publishing:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2003-02
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £9.09
Price: £4.48
Review Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania / Random House Trade:
Creator: Kristin Ross
Publication date: 1991-08
Dewey code: 370.1
Price: £21.50
Review The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation / Stanford University Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-03
Dewey code: 914
RRP: £13.95
Price: £4.68
Review On Celtic Tides / Saint Martin's Press Inc.:"Every time I thought I had reached the peak, that the passion for the journey must certainly begin to wane, I would stumble on another experience that pulled me onward," writes Chris Duff, recounting his solo circumnavigation of Ireland by sea kayak in the summer of 1996. "Stroke by stroke, four miles an hour, Ireland was filling me with its life blood. " Beginning and ending in Dublin, Duff paddled 1,200 miles over the course of three months. Sometimes he piloted his frail craft through waters too tumultuous even for hardy local fisherman; other times he sought refuge in sixth- century monastic ruins on coastal islands or waited out storms for days on end in his tent. In this sense, Duff's journey is a study in contrasting worlds: land and sea; past and present; solitude and society. The story's suspense comes not from a questionable outcome, but in the surprise of daily encounters. Who or what relic of the past will the author stumble upon next? Ultimately it is Duff's openness to ancient and elemental forces, expressed in starkly honest prose, that propels his narrative through the churning waters of Irish history and landscape. But this is also the story of a sea kayaker at the top of his game, dealing with nature's harsh blows and quiet caresses. -Kristopher Kaiyala.
Publication date: 2009-03-12
RRP: £7.99
Price: £5.99
Review Memoirs of a Not So Dutiful Daughter / Black Swan:
Publication date: 2004-02-06
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.34
Review Once in a House on Fire / Picador:Given her start in life, it is all the more remarkable that Andrea Ashworth should have turned out to be an Oxford graduate with such a compelling memoir under her belt. Her father died when she was five, her mother was left, poor and isolated in 70s, depressed Manchester to bring up Andrea and her younger sister singlehandedly. Along comes a physically abusive stepfather who sets about dragging the young family into the pits of despair, petty crime and sordid poverty. But Ashworth writes an enchanting story that blends social history (the 70s are rendered with an acute eye for detail) with poetic intensity. She turns a child's uncomprehending gaze on the domestic horrors of working- class life when it is dominated by a vicious man and drunken, self-pitying mother. We know, as we listen with Andrea, that her mother has decided to leave her man when she puts Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" on the turntable. Unfortunately, we know, too, that she was kidding herself when said man comes home and twirls her round the front room to the sound of Motown disco. We know, because Ashworth makes us re-live her childhood by dint of her astonishing gift for storytelling. -Lilian Pizzichini.
Creator: Ivan Morris
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-07-27
Dewey code: 895.68109
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.48
Review As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh Century Japan (Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Publication date: 2007-09-27
Dewey code: 359.960941
RRP: £18.99
Price: £9.40
Review Commando / Century:
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