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Book Reviews
My Autobiography By Menzies Campbell I do not think this book will be flying off the shelves
Mad, Bad And Sad: A History Of Women And The Mind Doctors From 1800 To The Present By Lisa Appignanesi The story of the men and women who created and developed psychiatry. Enthralling
What Happens Next: A History Of American Screenwriting By Marc Norman A history of screenwriting in Hollywood from 1896 to 2006. An inspirational book
Chasing The Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello And The Fight To Save The World By Samantha Power Biography of Sergio Vieira de Mello
For King And Country: Voices From The First World War By Brian Macarthur 'Impossible to read without comparing the folly of the politicians with the heroism of the men they sent to die'
Proust And The Squid: The Story Of Science And The Reading Brain By Maryanne Wolf Wolf's alarm about the spread of semi-literacy among the young is justified
The Angel Of Grozny: Inside Chechnya By Asne Seierstad Seierstad's first experience of war and her return to the land a decade later
The Age Of Assassins: The Rise And Rise Of Vladimir Putin By Yuri Felshtinsky And Vladimir Pribylovsky An admirable background to Russia's gloomy future
Nothing To Be Frightened Of By Julian Barnes Julian Barnes dances around death
George Gissing: A Life By Paul Delany George Gissing and the urban outcasts
On God: An Uncommon Conversation By Norman Mailer With Michael Lennon Norman Mailer questions God
Torture And Democracy By Darius Rejali A painstaking examination of torture
The Three Trillion Dollar War By Joseph Stiglitz Joseph Stiglitz: The Three Trillion Dollar War
The Ceremonial City: History, Memory And Myth In Renaissance Venice By Ian Fenlon Renaissance Venice, capital of spin
Exile On Main Street: A Season In Hell With The Rolling Stones By Robert Greenfield A shambolic summer with the Rolling Stones
Scenes From A Revolution: The Birth Of New Hollywood By Mark Harris The year Hollywood grew up
The Bridge By Geert Mak Attempting to span Turkey's divisions
The New Rome: The Fall Of An Empire And The Fate Of America By Cullen Murphy Is America the new Rome?
The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia And Depression By Darian Leader Prozac? How depressing
A Partisan's Daughter By Louis De Bernières Louis de Bernières: Incest amid fratricides
The Omega Force By Rick Moody Rick Moody's adventures in abstract paranoia
Something I'm Not By Lucy Beresford A woman's choice to be childless
The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao By Junot Díaz Junot Diaz's crash course in Dominican culture
God's Own Country By Ross Raisin An entertaining sociopath
If You Don't Know Me By Now By Sathnam Sanghera Loves, secrets and lies in Wolverhampton |
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