Publication date: 2006-02-09
Dewey code: 306.775092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.50
Review Princess Spider: True Experiences of a Dominatrix / Virgin Books:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1997-09-01
Dewey code: 942.055092
Price: £17.95
Review The First Elizabeth / St. Martin's Griffin:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-07-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.50
Review Mistress of the House: Great Ladies and Grand Houses 1670-1830 / Phoenix:
Publication date: 2009-02-19
RRP: £6.99
Price: £6.64
Review Tears of the Desert: One Woman's True Story of Surviving the Horrors of Darfur / Hodder Paperbacks:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-10-03
Dewey code: 782.42166092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.04
Review Deborah Harry: Platinum Blonde / Andre Deutsch Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-12-27
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £14.95
Price: £4.44
Review Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne / Jeremy P. Tarcher:
Creator: Karen V. Kukil
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-09
Dewey code: 818.5403
Price: £19.00
Review The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath / Anchor Books:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-01-02
Dewey code: 613
RRP: £13.99
Price: £3.70
Review Gaining: The Truth about Life After Eating Disorders / Wellness Central:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2000-08-23
Dewey code: 942.055092
RRP: £15.99
Price: £12.37
Review Elizabeth I (Profiles In Power) / Longman:
Edition: 1st U.S. ed
Publication date: 1995
Dewey code: 941.0858092
Review THE PATH TO POWER / HARPERCOLLINS:
Authors
- Julia Child
- Alex Prud'Homme
Dewey code: 641.5092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.03
Review My Life in France / Random House USA Inc:
Publication date: 2000-09-21
Dewey code: 792.028092
Price: £18.99
Review All of Me: My Extraordinary Life / Headline Book Publishing:I always felt I was more than just a busty blonde with a giggle and a wiggle. Barbara Windsor is forever enshrined in the national psyche as a cheeky Cockney, the blonde bombshell star of that quintessentially British creation, the Carry On film. Windsor's career in showbusiness has spanned an incredible 50 years-from her first appearance in pantomime at the age of 12, to soap-star matriarch behind the bar at the Queen Vic in Eastenders. Windsor (born Barbara Deeks; the name-change came in 1952, Coronation year, and was "particularly apt") grew up torn between her rowing parents who nevertheless instilled in her a passion for film-going. Aware that her looks and cheeky air would get her work, Windsor secretly deplored being eternally typecast as a "bimbo in white stilettos" and saw herself instead as a "theatre comedy actress". Her comic talent and sheer capacity for hard work led her, after years of damp dressing rooms and end-of-the-pier shows, to an enduring status as an icon of sorts, her ultimate accolade being made an OBE in 2000. Yet Windsor is almost as famous for her private life as she is for her public achievements, and she is exceptionally candid about her affairs-most notoriously with fellow Carry On star Sid James, though there was an occasion over some salt-beef sandwiches with jazzman Ronnie Scott ("I felt he had taken me on more for my bosom than for my singing"). There were also her abortions, her friendships with some of the biggest stars of the 60s-Kenneth Williams and she were so close that he came on her honeymoon-and she has always held a rather dubious affection for the Krays. Her first husband, Ronnie Knight, became Britain's most wanted man after his involvement in a robbery, her second sold his story to the tabloids after their marriage ended; she has recently married her third husband after a turbulent relationship. "I'd always been a grafter, not a whinger; always got out there and done it when the chips were down", writes Windsor and we never expect anything less of her. [+]The enjoyable and slightly scandalous All of Me is written in the best British tradition of self-deprecation, hard work, laughter and tears-with a touch of sauciness thrown in. Just like a Carry On film, in fact. -Kate Weaver.
Authors
- Judy Taylor
- Joyce Whalley
- Anne Stevenson Hobbs
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £20.00
Price: £12.23
Review Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943: The Artrist and Her World / Frederick Warne Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-04-21
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.61
Review Anna, Countess of the Covenant / Birlinn Ltd:
Creator: Martin Jarvis
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-04-17
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.81
Review Richmal Crompton: The Woman Behind William / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-01-20
Dewey code: 158
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.87
Review Shared Lives / Virago Press Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-05-02
Dewey code: 915
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.98
Review The Sun in My Eyes: Two-Wheeling East / Time Warner Paperbacks:The Sun in My Eyes is the fourth travel book by inveterate cyclist Josie Dew, telling the story of her second cycling journey around Japan. Arriving in Hong Kong, Dew finds a sea passage over to Japan. Having now amassed the almost incredible figure of 200,000 miles on her cycling clock, there is no room for doubt as far as her determination and fortitude are concerned-so when the ship in which she is working her passage to Okinawa gets caught up in unseasonable storms, the sudden burst of fragility brought up along with her seasickness comes as a surprise. Nevertheless, Dew makes it to her destination, and the pedalling begins. For the reader, the pleasure in what follows is undoubtedly in Dew's unself-conscious admiration for the generosity of the Japanese. This makes her an engaging companion, and overrides any faults in the prose (which, it has to be said, is laden with adjectives). The result is a book which can be infuriating, but one that also raises a smile and introduces some unusual situations-a snake on the stones in front of Dew, for instance, or the couple who insist on her sleeping by their shop and helping herself to whatever she likes. Wherever she is, Dew appears effervescent, and it is this enthusiasm which makes The Sun in my Eyes more interesting than many other two-wheeled travel books. -Toby Green.
Authors
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- William Godwin
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1987-04-30
Dewey code: 828.603
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.49
Review A Short Residence in Sweden: AND Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Woman' (Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Creator: Louise Thornton
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 1991-04-01
Dewey code: 362.76
RRP: £13.95
Price: £2.42
Review I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse / HarperPerennial:
Publication date: 1997-12-01
Dewey code: 746.92092
RRP: £65.00
Price: £38.99
Review Madeleine Vionnet / Chronicle Books:
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Princess Spider: True Experiences of a Dominatrix, The First Elizabeth, Mistress of the House: Great Ladies and Grand Houses 1670-1830, Tears of the Desert: One Woman's True Story of Surviving the Horrors of Darfur, Deborah Harry: Platinum Blonde, Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, Gaining: The Truth about Life After Eating Disorders, Elizabeth I (Profiles In Power), THE PATH TO POWER, My Life in France, All of Me: My Extraordinary Life, Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943: The Artrist and Her World, Anna, Countess of the Covenant, Richmal Crompton: The Woman Behind William, Shared Lives, The Sun in My Eyes: Two-Wheeling East, A Short Residence in Sweden: AND Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Woman' (Classics), I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Madeleine Vionnet |
