Authors
- Christine Eickelmann
- David Small
RRP: £6.99
Price: £8.97
Review PERO: The Life of a Slave in Eighteenth-Century Bristol / Redcliffe Press Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1971-09-30
Dewey code: 828.809
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.99
Review Confessions of an English Opium-eater (English Library) / Penguin Books Ltd:
Edition: Bicentennial Ed
Publication date: 2001-01-01
Dewey code: 941.5081092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.99
Review The Highland Lady In Ireland (Canongate Classics) (Canongate Classics) / Canongate Books:
Creator: William L. Andrews
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-01-06
Dewey code: 370.92
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.46
Review Up from Slavery (Oxford World's Classics) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Creator: Cynthia Wong
Publication date: 2008-06-19
Dewey code: 823.914
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.75
Review Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro (Literary Conversations) / University Press of Mississippi:
Publication date: 2001-05-08
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.38
Review The Hated Wife: Carrie Kipling 1862-1939 / Faber and Faber:Adam Nicolson, author of books on the Dome and on Windsor Castle, is no stranger to writing about lost causes, and in The Hated Wife: Carrie Kipling 1862-1939 he does a fair job of rescuing Rudyard Kipling's wife from the battering she has received from biographers of Britain's last great white poet. Nicolson recreates the tragedy that beset their marriage-the poet's love for her brother, the death of their children, Kipling's own drawn-out illness-and makes the case, if not for sympathy (he indulges in some rather biting criticism of Caroline Kipling himself), then at least for empathy. -Miles Taylor.
Publication date: 2007-07-20
Dewey code: 364.1630922
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.50
Review The Hustlers / Sidgwick & Jackson:
Publication date: 2007-04-05
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.01
Review Life, Interrupted: The True Story of a Life Driven by Tourette's / Headline Review:
Creator: Davic C. Berliner
Publication date: 2001-04-30
Dewey code: 371.10092
RRP: £15.95
Price: £10.52
Review Touching Eternity: The Enduring Outcomes of Teaching / Teachers' College Press:
Authors
- Greg Dinkin
- Amarillo Slim Preston
Publication date: 2005-05-01
Dewey code: 920
Price: £13.99
Review Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoir of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived / Harper Perennial:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-08-02
Dewey code: 649
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.95
Review The Boys Are Back in Town / Arrow Books Ltd:After Simon Carr's wife Susie finally succumbed to cancers dogged enough to defeat even her fiery spirit, he was left to bring up two sons in a domestic set-up he describes as "free-range" and visiting mothers preferred to call "semi-feral". This account of the rocky path of the lone carer is both moving and hilarious. The "Lost Boys" homestead constitutes a socially anomalous enterprise: a domestic world almost completely devoid of female influence. Carr's daringly innovative strategy could be summed up as "least resistance parenting"; where the golden rule is simply that there are as few rules as possible. But whilst his discoveries expose the often-risible rules that underlie some of our fundamental parenting habits, he also recounts his failures with unflinching honesty. Carr manages to trace the familiar territory of the gender divide without succumbing to the now familiar polarity of writers such as Helen Fielding and Nick Hornby. But despite the originality, emotional honesty and wit that set him apart from the platitude peddlers (although to be fair he does still sling the odd whopper into the pot), his achievement is to be as highly entertaining and readable as the best of them. -Rebecca Johnson.
Edition: 1st Touchstone Ed
Publication date: 1996-03-01
Dewey code: 813.52
RRP: £8.57
Price: £2.56
Review Cross Creek / Pocket Books:
Publication date: 1999-02-25
Dewey code: 616.890092
Price: £9.99
Review Prozac Diary / Hamish Hamilton Ltd:
Edition: 1st Trade Pbk. Ed
Publication date: 2001-09-30
Dewey code: 362.7340820951
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.13
Review The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past / G P Putnam's Sons:
Publication date: 1998-07-01
Dewey code: 914.1158
RRP: £6.99
Price: £17.95
Review Small Steps with Heavy Hooves: A Mother's Walk Back to Health in the Highlands / Summersdale Publishers:
Publication date: 2007-05-03
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.01
Review Diamonds and Holes in My Shoes / Hachette Books Ireland:
Creator: Elie Wiesel
Publication date: 1997-05-01
Price: £14.99
Review The Tenth Circle of Hell / Little, Brown:
Publication date: 2007-04-13
Dewey code: 900
RRP: £24.99
Price: £23.36
Review Britain's Betrayal in India: The Story of the Anglo Indian Community / Simon Wallenberg Press:
Publication date: 1998-06-04
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.82
Review C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too... / Vermilion:Once upon a time, being "unwell" meant a columnist was, how shall we put it, indisposed. Now, being truly unwell is no excuse for not filing your copy, and the resulting column is in danger of becoming something of a genre. If so, then here is its best exponent. John Diamond was just a common-or-garden Times columnist, a "sometime smoking, unexercised and overweight man of fortyish", and, being an expert hypochondriac, expectantly waiting for his first heart attack. Until 27 March 1997. Then he was diagnosed as having cancer. C is his "attempt to write the book I was looking for the night I got the bad news. " C is a blow-by-blow account of the progress of his cancer and its various treatments, interlaced with forays into the daunting medical literature, autobiographical reminiscences, and meditative reflections on what this all means. As a guide to cancer, Diamond is usefully knowledgeable, able to cut through the medical profession's defensive euphemisms and tell us what's really going on. As a guide to himself, Diamond is unstintingly honest, so we get the whole man with all his personal strengths and foibles, and it's actually difficult to read the prognosis with which he leaves us. [+]And to produce that degree of engagement is an achievement for any writer. -Alan Stewart.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1993-04
RRP: £8.50
Price: £13.94
Review Guerilla Days in Ireland / Anvil Books (Childrens Press):
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