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Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren - In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures

Memoir

(4 stars)4 Oct 2007

‘I have a blissfully forgetful brain,’ Helen Mirren informs us in the opening paragraph of her autobiography, which hardly bodes well for a book which demands total recall. But Mirren has dredged the past up from somewhere, or someone, because In the…

Wesley Stace

Interview with By George author Wesley Stace

4 Oct 2007

Ventriloquism is creepy. From traditional vaudeville acts and their scary wooden schoolboy dummies through to Keith Harris with his hand up Orville’s jacksie, there’s something distinctly unsettling about this mostly defunct form of entertainment. So…

5 books about sport

4 Oct 2007

Ray Stubbs (ed) The Sports Book: The Sports, the Rules, the Tactics, the Techniques The ‘ultimate armchair companion’ to more than 250 leisure pursuits (just didn’t want to use the word ‘sport’ again there) including bobsleigh and synchronised swimming.

Alice Sebold - The Almost Moon

Alice Sebold - The Almost Moon

Suburban tale

(2 stars)4 Oct 2007

‘When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily.’ With that opening sentence, Alice Sebold tells you all you need to know about her long-anticipated follow-up to The Lovely Bones. The subject matter – matricide and mental illness – is just as…

Don Paterson - The Blind Eye

Don Paterson - The Blind Eye

Comic aphorisms

(4 stars)4 Oct 2007

The Blind Eye is another delightful rendering of Dundee Don Paterson’s graceful ability to shift between the high brow and the pop cult with Game Boys and The Simpsons rubbing shoulders up against Orpheus and Auden. Never dull, often flighty, Paterson…

Fuyomi Kuono - Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms

Fuyomi Kuono - Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms

Historical manga

(3 stars)4 Oct 2007

Set ten years after the US dropped the ‘Little Boy’ atomic bomb on Hiroshima, decimating the city, these two stories follow the lives of the Hibakusha (‘explosion-affected people’). ‘The first story, ‘Town of Evening Calm’, details the descent into…

Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson - The Boys

Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson - The Boys

Superhero

(4 stars)4 Oct 2007

Garth Ennis, the bad boy British writer responsible for the controversial series’ Preacher and Transmetropolitan, puts the boot into the iconoclastic superhero strip sub-genre. The first six issues, collected here, introduce the titular CIA-backed…

Heath Robinson - Heath Robinson’s Helpful Solutions

Humour

(4 stars)4 Oct 2007

Given the relative dearth of books about the brilliant English humour cartoonist Heath Robinson, it’s heartening to see London’s Cartoon Museum publishing a heavily illustrated catalogue (with an informative essay by Simon Heneage, founder of the…

Michael Palin

Hitlist - the best Festival book events

4 Oct 2007

Michael Palin To hook into his BBC show New Europe, the ex-Python guy will be calling in to sign copies of the book of the same name. Waterstone’s, Edinburgh, Mon 15 Oct. Alasdair Gray With Old Men in Love having just dropped onto the nation’s…

Jonathan Trigell - Cham

Jonathan Trigell - Cham

Mystery Thriller

(3 stars)4 Oct 2007

Snowsports are gnarly and the Romantic poets were rad so why not have them meet on common ground (the ski resort of Chamonix; Shelley’s Mont-Blanc) and add in a serial rapist for good measure? After winning the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 2004 with Boy…

Michael Harvey - The Chicago Way

Michael Harvey - The Chicago Way

Crime drama

(3 stars)4 Oct 2007

Purported by his own press material to do ‘what Elmore Leonard did for Detroit and Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles’, Michael Harvey is unlikely to join that esteemed noir canon any time soon. Yet, with this brisk and engaging debut thriller, he’s…

Nicolas de Crecy - Glacial Period

Nicolas de Crecy - Glacial Period

Graphic novel

(4 stars)4 Oct 2007

Being branded an enfant terrible is too often faint praise for some artists but it poses no problems for Nicolas De Crécy who goes to great pains not to conform to stereotypical comic boy clichés and in doing so has produced a distinct body of work that…

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