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Thursday 17th May |
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Book Reviews
The Glass Swarm By Peter Bennet Bennet's at his best when writing of ice and shadows and dark water.
Notes From Walnut Tree Farm By Roger Deakin A book of a physical quality worthy of its text
The Magic Thief By Sarah Prineas This is a pleasingly fresh and pacy take on some much-visited themes
Terra Amata By Jmg Le Clézio The Nobel laureate as Martian
Northline By Willy Vlautin A painful, straightforward tale
A Lust For Window Sills By Harry Mount A Lover's Guide to British Buildings from Portcullis to Pebble Dash
The Stupidest Angel By Christopher Moore A Heart warming Tale of Christmas Terror
Winter Notes On Summer Impressions By Fyodor Dostoevsky Everyone is in a hurry to drink himself into insensibility.
The Jewel House By Deborah E Harkness Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
The Choice Of Hercules By Ac Grayling Pleasure, Duty and the Good Life in the 21st Century
Tony Hancock : The Definitive Biography By John Fisher A devotee's account of his own boyhood hero
The Anatomist By Anthony Sampson The Autobiography
Liberty By Garrison Keillor A Novel of Lake Wobegon
The Triumph Of Music By Tim Blanning Composers, Musicians and their Audiences, 1700 to the Present
The Return Of Depression Economics And The Crisis Of 2008 By Paul Krugman One of the sharpest economists in the world
The China Lover By Ian Buruma The fictionalised account of Yamaguchi's life from three separate narrative viewpoints
Starstruck: Fame, Failure, My Family And Me By Cosmo Landesman Very funny and often quite astonishing memoir
My Father's Wives By José Eduardo Agualusa A magical journey with multiple narrators
The Man Who Owns The News By Michael Wolff Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch
Globalising Hatred: The New Anti-semitism By Denis Macshane Misdirected passion
Stepping Stones By Dennis O'driscoll Interviews with Seamus Heaney
Outliers: The Story Of Success By Malcolm Gladwell Outliers is perhaps the ultimate Gladwell book
The Man Who Owns The News By Michael Wolff Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch
Harry, A History By Melissa Anelli Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon
Harry, A History By Melissa Anelli Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon |