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Neil Bartlett

Skin Lane (Serpent’s Tail)

(2 stars)13 Mar 2007

PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER Author and theatre director Neil Bartlett explores the link between repressed sexual desire and social envy in this disappointing follow-up novel to the Whitbread-shortlisted Mr Clive and Mr Page. London, 1967. Mr F is a…

Rhona Cameron

The Naked Drinking Club (Ebury)

(3 stars)13 Mar 2007

AUSTRALIAN ADVENTURE In 1979, the chronicle of a year in Cameron’s teenage life, she’s an adopted Lothians lassie who fixates on girls, lets the boys take advantage of her, and watches her father die. In her first novel, The Naked Drinking Club, the…

Will Davis

My Side of the Story (Bloomsbury)

(1 star)13 Mar 2007

COMING-OF-AGE TALE The horror, uncertainty and exasperation of being a teenager are supposed to be character-building. And so the horror of coming out, the uncertainty of running away to Brighton on a binge of pills and powder, and the…

Joe Hill

Heart of darkness

12 Mar 2007

One of the biggest skeletons in literature popped out of the cupboard earlier this year when Joe Hill’s true identity as Stephen King’s son was unveiled. Having ploughed away secretly for over a decade as writer and editor of short stories (most notably…

Life & Style - Play - Reviews

THE BOOK OF GAMES (VOLUME 1)

12 Mar 2007

BOOK (gameXplore, 3 stars) Given how popular videogames are, there’s a strange lack of books on the subject. Indeed, it’s hard to think of a bookshop with a gaming section. Beyond the walkthroughs and gaming guides that proliferate at…

Edwin Morgan

A Book of Lives (Carcanet)

(4 stars)12 Mar 2007

POETRY COLLECTION Every so often, a collection of poems comes along which warrants closing the door, leaving emails unopened and the phone unanswered to read it from cover to cover. A Book of Lives is one such publication. As Scotland’s Makar, it’s…

*Hitlist

Hitlist

12 Mar 2007

Steven Hall A cult legend in the making, The Raw Shark Texts somehow connects the missing link between The Matrix and Jaws with guile and panache. This is your chance to discover how the author managed it. Borders Books, Glasgow, Thu 15 Mar.

Emily Maguire

The Gospel According to Luke (Serpent’s Tail)

(3 stars)12 Mar 2007

SOCIAL DRAMA Acclaimed Australian author Emily Maguire’s latest book is nothing if not topical. It centres on Luke, a young Pastor of the Christian Revolution in Sydney, full of God and staunchly opposed to the sexual health clinic across the street.

Michael Weinreb

The Kings of New York (Yellow Jersey)

(3 stars)12 Mar 2007

SPORT Chess attracts both child prodigies and general oddballs, both of which can be found in abundance in this well-constructed and intriguing book about American’s top high school chess team. The Edward R Murrow School in Brooklyn is an…

René Weis

Shakespeare Revealed: A Biography (John Murray)

(4 stars)12 Mar 2007

LITERARY ANALYSIS Combining taut prose with tight scholarship, René Weis has written a gripping biography of the world’s most famous Bard. With the great man’s life notoriously wreathed in mystery, Weis has plunged into the works for clues. He cites…

Dan Rhodes

Gold (Canongate)

(3 stars)12 Mar 2007

COMIC NOVEL Were the cast of Last of the Summer Wine a little more off-kilter and if Nora Batty was a bit less of a lumpy-stockinged battleaxe with an eye for mindless trivia, they could have easily come to mind when reading Dan Rhodes’ pleasing and…

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5 SHORT STORY PAPERBACKS

12 Mar 2007

Margaret Atwood The Tent A bunch of updated fables and myths accompanied by the author’s own black and white drawings. Bloomsbury.

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