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How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian | Book review
One of Britain's most trenchant comics offers a fascinating insight into creating comedy Stewart Lee is the most enigmatic of comedians: a thoughtful, softly spoken man who somehow managed to become a hate figure for the 65,000 people who complained tomore
My Life in Pieces by Simon Callow | Book review
The actor's collection of his journalism and other writing displays a lust for life both infectious and exhausting Simon Callow is as noisy on the page as he is on the stage, not necessarily a bad thing. Reading through this skilfully arrangedmore
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott | Poetry review
Jo Shapcott's enigmatic poems fight shy of referring directly to her battle with cancer Of Mutability is, as its title suggests, a protean collection: the poems keep shifting ground, subtly transforming themselves ? you need to watch Jo Shapcott likemore
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker | Book review
Nicholson Baker's novel about a failed poet is a delight As literary enticements go, spending the duration of a novel in the company of a washed-up poet with writer's block and girlfriend issues is not exactly a high-ranker. Two pages into Nicholsonmore
Thérèse Raquin by Emile Zola | Book review
Zola's 1867 tale of murderous lovers is a work of enduring fascination, says Anna Winter Zola's Thérèse Raquin (1867) is a story of lust, madness and destruction set within the dingy backstreets of Paris. The eponymous protagonist ? a repressed andmore
The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre by Michael H Fisher | Book review
William Dalrymple marvels at the tragic and extraordinary life of Britain's first Anglo-Indian MP At around 4am on 21 September 1843, a man recently certified as a lunatic escaped from his Liverpool confinement, gave his keepers the slip and disappearedmore
Room by Emma Donoghue | Book review
Inspired by the Josef Fritzl case, Emma Donoghue's much-hyped seventh novel is a gem, says Nicola Barr Much hyped on acquisition and by its publisher since (and longlisted for the Booker prize last week), Room is set to be one of the big literary hitsmore
Review: 'Instead of a Letter,' 'After a Funeral' show off Diana Athill's prowess
When Diana Athill's maternal grandmother was dying a long and painful death at 92, Athill writes, she "turned her beautiful speckled eyes towards me one afternoon and said in so many words: 'What have I lived for?' " It is this question, which Athillmore
Book Review of Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology. Volume 50
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'The Baddest of The Bad' is Oh So Good
Crime fiction can be broken down into subgenres. There are the cozies like those found in Ellery Queen, the hard-boiled grit of a Sam Spade or Mike Hammer novel, and the fact-heavy and suspense-driven stories of James Ellroy. Then there are the storiesmore
Cooking for Geeks Book Review
While O'Reilly is known for their technical programming titles, they occasionally publish a book that's tangentially outside of their typical content sandbox. Some of these experiments turn out to be highly entertaining and informative surprises (such asmore
Book review: Mr Two-Bomb
Mr Two-Bomb by William Coles is published by Legend Press, priced £7.99. Is a man who witnesses two atomic bombs in a week blessed or cursed? This is the question behind the latest literary offering by Edinburgh writer William Coles, a release thatmore
Book Review | 'How to Sew a Button: And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew'
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Colonials Abroad
In the decades before the Declaration of Independence, thousands of American colonists visited London. Wealthy Southern plantation owners and New England merchants, husbands and wives, children and slaves all arrived in what was thought to be the mostmore
Curious Cases
In his wide-ranging, technically daring story collection, The Surf Guru, no occupation is too offbeat for Doug Dorst. Over the course of fragmented vignettes, an aging, entrepreneurial surfer realizes hes past his prime. A young woman tries and fails tomore
Summer reading for children
Julia Eccleshare suggests fiction for all agesCave Baby, by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Emily Gravett (Macmillan, £10.99). Age: 2+ An exuberant, rhyming text matched by equally lively illustrations makes this a romp of a bedtime story. Havingmore
Rain by Don Paterson
Nicholas Lezard on words like hammer blowsPaul Muldoon is quoted on the back cover of this book: "Don Paterson is simply the most interesting mid-career poet at work in the UK." This might look, to the casual glance, like faint praise, but it isn't. Andmore
Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis
Graham is famous, but what about the other Greenes? Ian Thomson investigatesGraham Greene's darkest entertainment, The Third Man, ends with a shoot-out in the sewers of Vienna and the death of the penicillin racketeer Harry Lime. A convert tomore
Et cetera
Steven Poole on science, pseudo-science and perceptionNonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk, by Massimo Pigliucci (Chicago, £13) At one end we have super-successful "hard" sciences such as quantum physics; at the other, homeopathy andmore
BOOK REVIEW: Strange but true -by Afrah Jamal And Thereby Hangs a Tale
BOOK REVIEW: Strange but true ?by Afrah Jamal And Thereby Hangs a Tale Macmillan; Pp 400; Rs 595 He has penned numerous bestsellers, done a stint as a member of parliament, a stretch in prison, stopped by the House of Lords, and been in and out ofmore
Book Review - The Quickening - By Michelle Hoover
This novel, narrated by two Midwestern farm wives, was inspired by a real journal.more
Book Review - The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno - By Ellen Bryson
In this first novel, a mysterious seductress who signs on as an attraction at P. T. Barnum?s museum enchants the resident thin man.more
Book Review - Cocaine Nation - By Tom Feiling
How America?s insatiable craving for cocaine has spread misery and violence across the globe.more
Book Review - Furious Love - Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century - By Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, 1964.more
Book Review - When That Rough God Goes Riding - Listening to Van Morrison - By Greil Marcus
Van Morrison in 1990.more
Book Review - The Fall of the House of Walworth - By Geoffrey O?Brien
Celebrity murder: ?With frightful coolness, young Walworth sent four bullets into his father?s body.?more