Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 2004-10-18
Dewey code: 364.152309759
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.27
Review Lethal Intent / Zebra Books:
Creator: Amanda Haley
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 179.608342
RRP: £5.18
Price: £1.75
Review True Stories: Girls' Inspiring Stories of Courage and Heart (American Girl Library) / American Girl:
Edition: 1st Pocket Books Hardcover Ed
Publication date: 2005-11-07
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £20.00
Price: £4.61
Review Divas Uncovered (WWE) / Pocket Books:
Publication date: 2001-10-04
Dewey code: 328.41092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.00
Review Betty Boothroyd: The Autobiography / Century:Betty Boothroyd: The Autobiography has Baroness Boothroyd of Sandwell, with her characteristic endearing zeal, recounting her trail from working-class Dewsbury to Westminster. The daughter of a weftman, she passes from rags to political riches with the Labour Party, to which she claims an umbilical loyalty. After a now-notorious spell with the Tiller Girls, she started working full-time for the Labour Party, and eventually, after four attempts at securing a seat, she finally won West Bromwich in 1973-the constituency she was to represent for 27 years. Pro-Europe, pro-choice, anti-capital punishment, she was made a junior Whip in 1974 and Deputy Speaker in 1987 before finally succeeding Jack Weatherill to become the 155th-and first female-Speaker of the House of Commons in 1992. By the time of her retirement from the Chair in July 2000, her "wigless informality" had seen her become one of the most recognisable and popular faces, not just in the House or West Bromwich, but throughout the country. The woman Private Eye cruelly and unfairly accused of having "all the charm of carbon monoxide gas in an airtight room" airs her story with unstuffy grace and emphatic integrity. Much has been made of the large sum the publishers paid for her story, but Boothroyd chooses discretion over revelation in describing her path from model to Madame Speaker: while she discusses her brief experience training with the Tiller Girls, she includes no photographs from the period, and declines to elaborate further on the three proposals of marriage she claims to have received. Nevertheless, she assesses her political career and tenure on the Chair with splendid candour, from the fight to rid the Party of Militant, ding-dongs with party Whips, the "cash for questions" controversy, Nelson Mandela's first state visit to London, Gerry Adams' and Martin McGuinness' refusal to take the Parliamentary oath, to the fuss over her banning women MPs from breastfeeding during committee. Never constrained by doctrine but always fiercely loyal to her principles, her motto as Speaker, "I Speak to Serve", fittingly sums up the distinguished, quietly extraordinary political career of this much-loved Yorkshire terrier. -David Vincent.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1971-02
Dewey code: 335.830924
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.76
Review Living My Life, Vol 1 / Dover Publications Inc.:
Publication date: 1994-01-14
Price: £4.99
Review Heaven and Earth: Child of War, Woman of Peace / Pan Books:
Publication date: 2006-09-02
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £15.99
Price: £0.94
Review Justice Under Siege / Arcadia Books:
Publication date: 2008-10
Dewey code: 791.43028092
RRP: £24.95
Price: £13.65
Review Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty (Hollywood Legends) / University Press of Mississippi:
Publication date: 2005-06-03
Dewey code: 709.2
RRP: £25.95
Price: £18.53
Review Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art (October Books) / MIT Press:
Authors
- Penny Valentine
- Vicki Wickham
RRP: £17.99
Price: £39.99
Review Dancing with Demons: The Authorised Biography of Dusty Springfield / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:As a child, in a desperate effort to get the attention of her parents, Mary O'Brien would place her hands on the boiler until they burned. As an adult, Mary would have the attention of the whole world. But her wigs and heavy eyeliner masked childhood insecurities that she had never been able to shake. Despite being adored by millions, a part of Dusty Springfield would forever feel loathed and unloved. While chronicling the singer's roller-coaster career, Dancing With Demons-The Authorised Biography of Dusty Springfield, reveals a vulnerable, temperamental, addictive personality whose acts of self-mutilation led to habitual hospitalisation. Based on the "intimate and personal memories" revealed by those "who knew her best", Penny Valentine and Vicky Wickham endeavour to dissect the damage that created the character that became an icon. As you'd expect from a biography written by two of her closest friends, the book paints a sympathetic picture of the high life and low times of the woman who was once the bestselling female artist in the world. But while the book benefits from the close relationship the authors shared with their subject, it also suffers from their inability to be able to view their friend from an objective perspective. Nevertheless, Dusty devotees will devour the detailed and personal account of the all too often sad existence of the white queen of (tortured) soul. -Christopher Kelly.
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1997-10-01
Dewey code: 796.44092
RRP: £4.99
Price: £18.95
Review Dominique Moceanu: an American Champion / Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group:
Publication date: 2007-04-30
Dewey code: 944.361083092
RRP: £11.99
Price: £6.26
Review Girl in Paris: A Persian Encounter with the West / Tauris Parke Paperbacks:
Publication date: 2007-05-03
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.03
Review The Kabul Beauty School: The Art of Friendship and Freedom / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:
Authors
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Rose Wilder Lane
Publication date: 1989-11-30
Dewey code: 813.52
RRP: £8.44
Price: £2.81
Review A Little House Sampler / HarperPaperbacks:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2008-08-21
Dewey code: 306.76092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £12.53
Review Both Sides Now: One's Mans Journey Through Womanhood / J P TARCHER/PENGUIN PUTNAM:
Edition: 1st HarperPerennial Ed
Publication date: 1993-05
Dewey code: 335.430947
Price: £8.47
Review How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed / HarperPerennial:
Publication date: 1999-05-27
Dewey code: 738.092
RRP: £25.00
Price: £64.95
Review Clarice Cliff: The Art of Bizarre / Thorsons:
Publication date: 2008-11-15
Dewey code: 955.0530922
RRP: £40.50
Price: £38.50
Review Eminent Persians: v. 1 & 2: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979: v. 1 & 2 / Syracuse University Press:
Creator: Andrew Bromfield
Publication date: 2008-08-05
Dewey code: 958.7084
RRP: £9.12
Price: £3.89
Review The Dancer from Khiva: One Muslim Woman's Quest for Freedom / Grove Press, Black Cat:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-08-01
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.85
Review Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography (Women In History) / Phoenix:
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Lethal Intent, True Stories: Girls' Inspiring Stories of Courage and Heart (American Girl Library), Divas Uncovered (WWE), Betty Boothroyd: The Autobiography, Living My Life, Vol 1, Heaven and Earth: Child of War, Woman of Peace, Justice Under Siege, Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty (Hollywood Legends), Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art (October Books), Dancing with Demons: The Authorised Biography of Dusty Springfield, Dominique Moceanu: an American Champion, Girl in Paris: A Persian Encounter with the West, The Kabul Beauty School: The Art of Friendship and Freedom, A Little House Sampler, Both Sides Now: One's Mans Journey Through Womanhood, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, Clarice Cliff: The Art of Bizarre, Eminent Persians: v. 1 & 2: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979: v. 1 & 2, The Dancer from Khiva: One Muslim Woman's Quest for Freedom, Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography (Women In History) |
