Brief Candle. Bryson on top form in this brief "bio" of the Bard. The book illustrates for the uninitiated (like me) what a dearth of knowledge there actually IS about Shakespeare but still ...
IF LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE EVERYONE SHOULD OWN THIS BOOK. I remember watching Pam on Opportunity Knocks when I was 11 and I loved her poems then, this is the 1st book I've bought of he...
Great memoir. L have never read a Ballard book,but found this auto-biography very enjoyable.His narrative is simple and direct,yet it delivers with vigour and zest.This is really two books.T...
Short and snappy as it is, Stephen King's On Writing really contains two books: a fondly sardonic autobiography and a tough-love lesson for aspiring novelists. The memoir is terrific stuff, ...
A moving finale to this fine series. This final volume, Coda, in Simon Gray's diaries will be warmly welcomed by anyone who has followed Gray's progress from The Smoking Diaries to The Last ...
Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is an exemplary autobiographical graphic novel, in the tradition of Art Spiegelman's classic Maus. Set in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, it follows the youn...
Best book on death I've ever read. Until now Julian Barnes has always been opaque - his writing has been brilliant but you never felt you knew much about the man, except that he is clearly a...
Elvis's wimpled sister rocks on in a convent she calls Graceland; Nancy Sinatra gets out her boots made for walking with the Kray Sisters; Mrs Midas misses the touch of her now dangerous g...
Impeccable prose, prosaic content. I was disappointed by this book. I found nothing in it that was in any way moving or uplifting. It brought no tear to my eye, caused no gasp of shock or s...
