23 Jan 2015
THE KIND WORTH KILLING: You Should Never Talk To Strangers… – Book Review
Swanson’s second novel after last year’s improbable but enjoyable enough The Girl With A Clock For A Heart suffers from the same problems – irksome characters…
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17 Jan 2015
EPILOGUE: A MEMOIR – A Movingly Personal Autobiography From Will Boast – Book Review
Boast’s movingly personal autobiography’s title is taken from his belief that he was an ‘epilogue’ in his family when he lost his mother (brain tumour), brother…
17 Jan 2015
Stephen Fry’s Third Autobiographical Work… MORE FOOL ME: A Memoir – Book Review
Fry’s third autobiographical work after Moab Is My Washpot and The Fry Chronicles suffers from all the same irksome problems: wild overuse of adjectives; oodles…
16 Jan 2015
Be The Star In Neil Patrick Harris’ Life Story With CHOOSE YOUR OWN AUTOBIGRAPHY – Book Review
Neil Patrick Harris, star of Doogie Howser M.D , How I Met Your Mother and countless stage productions, has written his autobiography in the style of a Choose…
16 Jan 2015
DISOBEYING HITLER: German Resistance In The Last Year Of WWII – Book Review
Have you ever wondered why an entire population of people all banded together behind Adolf Hitler to perpetrate the worst war crimes recorded in human history?…
7 Jan 2015
FROG: The Story Of Brutal Government Policy In A Country Steeped In Tradition And Myth – Book Review
In Frog, Tadpole tells the story of his Aunt Gugu, a feisty young woman who trains in modern obstetric techniques and is scornful of old traditions which often…
7 Jan 2015
FUNNY GIRL: An Edgy Girl With Edgy Writers Making An Edgy 1960s TV Sitcom… But Without The Edge – Book Review
Nick Hornby has written some ripper books: High Fidelity, A Long Way Down and Juliet, Naked are my favourites. So when I picked up Funny Girl I was anticipating…
7 Jan 2015
HOW PARIS BECAME PARIS: The Invention Of The Modern City – Book Review
There’s no doubt about how much Joan DeJean loves Paris in the spring… and the summer, autumn and winter. To write to such a meticulously researched book on the…
7 Jan 2015
HOW TO WRITE COMEDY: Discover The Building Blocks Of Sketches, Jokes And Sitcoms And Make Them Work – Book Review
Now is a great time to be a comedy writer, according to Tony Kirkwood. Even better, you don’t even have to be funny all the time – you just have to be…
7 Jan 2015
HUMANS: AN A – Z – Make The Most Of Your Time On Earth – Book Review
Supposedly a phrase book, a dictionary and a guide to the strange life form that is the human, and apparently written to aid Vonnadorians who are to come to…
7 Jan 2015
MORIARTY: Sherlock Holmes Is Dead And Darkness Falls – Book Review
Commissioned by the Conan Doyle Estate to keep the Sherlock Holmes legend alive, Anthony Horowitz has now delivered a sequel to 2011’s bestseller House Of Silk…
7 Jan 2015
MY HIROSHIMA: A Powerful True Story Of War, Survival And Hope – Book Review
The Japanese-Australian Morimoto’s beautiful book, first published in 1987, is one of the few offerings in the realms of children’s literature about atomic…