Publication date: 2006-10-09
Dewey code: 306.7092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £10.03
Review My Secret Life: Early Years Pt. 1: The Sex Diaries of a Victorian Gentleman: Early Years Pt. 1 / Nonsuch Publishing:
Publication date: 2006-06-02
Dewey code: 364.1523092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £19.98
Review Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend / John Wiley & Sons:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-06-28
Dewey code: 955.053092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.49
Review Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran / Three Rivers Press:
Publication date: 2003-01-27
Dewey code: 966.9052
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.52
Review Surviving in Biafra: The Story of the Nigerian Civil War / iUniverse.com:
Publication date: 2001-11
Dewey code: 616.9
RRP: £16.25
Price: £3.17
Review Maneater: And Other True Stories of a Life in Infectious Diseases / Renaissance Books:
Publication date: 2004-05-04
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.06
Review The Empress of Ireland / Scribner:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2007-08-02
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.08
Review Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids / Arrow Books Ltd:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-05-16
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.01
Review Barefoot in Mullyneeny: A Boy's Journey Towards Belonging / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-05-12
Dewey code: 791
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.98
Review A Day Called Hope: A Personal Journey Beyond Depression / Hodder Mobius:
Publication date: 1997-11-03
Dewey code: 782.421649092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.40
Review I Make My Own Rules / Saint Martin's Press Inc.:
Edition: Rev. Ed
Publication date: 2008-07-25
Dewey code: 941.085092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.99
Review Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen / Alma Books Ltd:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2000-03-09
Dewey code: 968.00992
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.45
Review My Traitors Heart / Avalon Travel Publishing:
Publication date: 2003-11
Review The Cancer Code: How a Journey through Leukemia Led to Software that Changed the Way People Work / self-published:
Authors
- Susan Clipson Boyles
- Jackie Holderness
- Dee Reid
- Diana Bentley
- Margaret Lynch
- Christine Burman
- Rosemary Chamberlin
Publication date: 1999-04-22
Dewey code: 371
RRP: £15.95
Price: £5.98
Review The Really Practical Guide to - Primary English (The really practical guide to) / Nelson Thornes:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-06-10
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.09
Price: £4.31
Review Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven / Mariner Books:
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 2007-09-15
Dewey code: 618.9285882
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.59
Review A Will of His Own: Reflections on Parenting a Child with Autism / Jessica Kingsley Publishers:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-03-02
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.88
Review Love Child / Vermilion:
Publication date: 1993-09-30
Dewey code: 362.76
RRP: £7.99
Price: £31.95
Review The Mother I Carry: Memoir of Healing from Emotional Abuse / Seal Press:
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 1991-06-28
Price: £10.99
Review William Thompson, 1775-1833: Pioneer Socialist / Pluto Press:
Edition: export ed
Publication date: 2003-05-15
Dewey code: 070.41092
Price: £14.95
Review How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: A Memoir / Da Capo Press Inc:In How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Toby Young-columnist and former co-editor (with Julie Burchill and Cosmo Landesman) of The Modern Review-portrays himself as a man pulled to the New York media set by twin desires: to trade one-liners with modern day Dorothy Parkers and Robert Benchleys over very dry martinis, and to drink Cristal from a supermodel's cleavage in the back of a limo. In the event, neither is fulfilled and desire shows itself up to be the snake that eats its own tail-endless and ultimately encircling a big fat zero. How to Lose. is Young's own telling of his disastrous five-year career in New York journalism, initiated when he is offered a job at Vanity Fair, Conde Nast's flagship star-fest. Young may have been hired for his snappy prose, but his real genius turns out to be antagonising the rich and famous. He is the British bulldog in the Armani-clad china shop of the politically correct glossy posse. He hires a strip-o-gram on bring-your-daughter-to-work day, commits the cardinal sin of asking celebs about their religion and sexual orientation, gets blasted on coke while trying to do a photo shoot and spends less time pulling up his chair to the modern day equivalent of the Algonquin table than trying to blag his way past "clipboard Nazis" barring his way into showbiz parties. Oh, and he gets sued by Tina Brown and Harold Evans. [+]This is the place, he soon discovers, where greatness is measured not in your prose stylings, but how far up the guest list you are for Vanity Fair's Oscar party. But two things raise this particular loser's story above the crowd. First is his spot-on outsider's inside observations on phenomena such as the rigidly Austen-ite New York dating scene. Second, he has the columnist's knack of connecting everyday experience to social politics in order to grind both personal and political axes. In the adoration of the celebrity aristocracy by the masses, he sees the realisation of de Toqueville's warning of "the tyranny of the majority" and witnesses, for those lower down the food chain, the corruption of the "be all that you can be" meritocracy America promises. If these are soft targets, then the hilariously toe-curling experiences that lead him to take aim are well worth the price of a cocktail. -Fiona Buckland.
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