Don't forget about the book All Made Up by Janice Galloway
11 Sep 2011 04:38:02
Galloway's first volume of memoir, This Is Not About Me, was published in 2008 and contained innumerable moments of cruelty. Janice's father comes home in a foul mood one day and tosses the family's supper (a pot of stew) into the garden. Janice's mother eventually leaves him, taking the young Janice with her. Janice's sister Cora then leaves her own husband and moves in, bringing fear and tyranny. Every morning Cora "painted on eyebrows like gull-wings" before going out to work as a secretary, ... Read Full Story
Another "must read" book Back from the Brink writen by Alistair Darling
11 Sep 2011 04:35:55
Alistair Darling did neither. He presided over the longest and deepest recession in Britain since the second world war, including the biggest one-year drop in activity since the early 1920s. And, having been dealt one of the duffest hands imaginable, he survived the run on Northern Rock, the enforced nationalisation of a good chunk of Britain's high-street banking network and incessant bad-mouthing, to be there when Brown departed from Downing Street five days after the 2010 general election.
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What we think about book A Short History of England written by Simon Jenkins
11 Sep 2011 04:33:10
At the height of last month's riots, the BBC issued an edict. It told its staff that henceforth they were to describe the disturbances not as "British" but as "English". Anyone familiar with the corporation's nervous system will have instantly detected a response to Celtic whinges. Like so many reflections of the infirmity of the United Kingdom, there was nothing you could object to in this ruling: the riots really did happen in "English" cities. Perhaps they reflected a uniquely English malaise... Read Full Story
The connection between Simon Fuller with Bug Music
08 Sep 2011 17:58:55
American Idol creator Simon Fuller is among parties in the final stages of bidding for Los Angeles music publisher Bug Music, according to three people familiar with the process.
Bug, which is owned by private equity firm Spectrum Equity Investors, is expected to fetch bids starting in the high $200 millions to $300 million range, according to two of the people.
Fuller's XIX Entertainment, BMG Music and Ole Music are among second-round bidders for the publisher whose 250,000-strong catalog of s... Read Full Story
Barnes&noble identified 6 novels
08 Sep 2011 17:54:15
Barnes's novel "The Sense of an Ending," about an ordinary man who muses on the absence of drama in his life, was praised as "technically marvelous" by the panel of five judges, chaired by British spymaster-turned-writer Dame Stella Rimington.
It marks Barnes's fourth appearance on the shortlist following "Flaubert's Parrot" (1984), "England, England" (1998) and "Arthur and George" (2005). He has not won so far.
"Julian Barnes's book is the most obvious novel on the shortlist and perhaps the mos... Read Full Story
New book ''Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength" written by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney
08 Sep 2011 17:49:35
The latter quality is good news since most problems — drug abuse, violence, overspending, underachievement, unhealthy habits — can be traced back to a lack of self-control.
That's according to "Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength," a new book by Florida State University psychologist Roy F. Baumeister and New York Times science writer John Tierney. The authors cite fascinating lab experiments that reveal how the human mind and body work and, less compellingly, profile famous peop... Read Full Story
New changers in Jo Nesbø's novel
05 Sep 2011 02:37:27
Jo Nesbø, the Norwegian author whose books about the driven, enigmatic detective Harry Hole have made him a bestseller in Britain, said yesterday it was inevitable that crime writing would change in the wake of the Anders Behring Breivik shootings last month.
The author, speaking at the Edinburgh international book festival, said that the massacre "will definitely affect crime writing. I don't think it will be something that crime writers will think about consciously, but we are all changed. It... Read Full Story
Time doesn't have powwer on Stephen King's creativity and potential
05 Sep 2011 02:34:46
Stephen King is hoping to "make some people a little bit angry" with a new, left-leaning morning talk show which will offer a counterbalance to the proliferation of conservative American radio hosts.
"We're a little to the left, but we're right," the bestselling horror author said at a rare press conference announcing the new show. To be hosted by Pat LaMarche, a Green party vice-presidential candidate in 2004, and former reporter Don Cookson, The Pulse Morning Show will air on the King-owned r... Read Full Story
It isn't theft of the century, but it is unpleasantly
05 Sep 2011 02:33:19
Almost 70 books stolen from the Social Democratic party by the Nazi regime will be returned in a ceremony at the end of August, Berlin's Central and Regional Library has announced.
The books, which include an 1883 English edition of The Communist Manifesto thought to come from the library of Friedrich Engels, who wrote the original with Marx, were confiscated by the Nazi party. The Social Democrats, Germany's oldest political party, was outlawed after the Nazis came to power in 1933.
The retur... Read Full Story
Attractiveness doesn't metter
04 Sep 2011 04:31:05
When a man is noted for his Byronic looks he is generally chuffed – dark, handsome, attractively unavailable. Slightly morose, it's true, but in a sexy way.
The reality though should now be amended to overweight, not at all attractive and thoroughly unpleasant. Or, as historian Lucy Worsley puts it: "Self-regarding poser."
Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, believes that the word Byronic is bandied around without people really knowing what it means.
She makes her claim in her n... Read Full Story
What is the book "Maggie Goes on a Diet" is about and will be picture books popular in future?
04 Sep 2011 04:29:03
For seconds, like-wildfire circulation of a blurb describing how the bullied girl is transformed through time, exercise and hard work into a popular, confident and average size soccer star. And cover art showing her wistfully holding up a Cinderella dress as she stares at her imagined, much slimmer self in a full-length mirror.
And an inside page, the only one most people have seen, that shows her hunched over the fridge during a two-fisted eating binge.
Thirds? Real teenagers have long moved on... Read Full Story
Kate Bosworth and her things about future
04 Sep 2011 04:27:15
Kate, who stars as Amy Sumner in the remake of the 1971 film "Straw Dogs," said she went from awkward teen to awkward adult, moving to Hollywood at 18, after deferring entry to Princeton.
"Talk about anxiety!" she told the mag. "That was a really stressful time for me. I look back now and think, 'How did I ever do that?' I lived there, in a tiny studio apartment, on my own."
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Kate stars alongside former boyfriend Alexander Skarsgard, of "True Blood" fame, in the "St... Read Full Story
