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Alexander Ahndoril - The Director

Alexander Ahndoril - The Director

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

NOVELISED PORTRAIT (Portobello Books) This novel portrait of an artist captures the late, great Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman at a crucial moment in his life, in 1961 when he was making the second film in his celebrated faith trilogy, Winter Light.

Also Published - 5 Diet Books

4 Jan 2008

Theresa Cheung - The Lemon Juice Diet It’s the big ingredient in the Hollywood slimmer’s scran these days, replacing the various recent dieting fads of coconut, pineapple and cabbage soup. Vermillion . Marisa Peer - You Can Be Thin This one is aimed…

Avril Lavigne’s Make 5 Wishes Volume 1 & 2

Camilla D’errico & Joshua Dysart - Avril Lavigne’s Make 5 Wishes Volume 1 & 2

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

TEEN (Titan) I really wanted to hate this. I was hoping for a cheesy, corporate celebrity tie-in scamming money out of a willing fanbase. Sadly, it’s a stunningly-drawn, intelligent, jet-black study of adolescent isolation. Dammit. Hana is a…

Cecil Castellucci & Jim Rugg - The Plain Janes

(3 stars)4 Jan 2008

DRAMA (Minx) The latest entry in the new Minx range captures almost every chick lit cliché. High school setting? Check. Geeky girls save the day? Check. And, of course, there’s a moody pretty boy for those raging hormones. And yet it’s not terrible…

Doggles

Dave Evans - Coolhunting

(3 stars)4 Jan 2008

CULT DESIGN Current adverts for DVD box sets of flashy dross such as The OC and Friends claim that these shows are ‘funny, sexy, cool’. But what, then, does it mean to be cool? The definitions have certainly changed down the years with archetypal…

Desmond Morris - The Naked Man

Desmond Morris - The Naked Man

(1 star)4 Jan 2008

FACTUAL (Jonathan Cape) After the international success of 2004’s The Naked Woman, it now seems fitting for Desmond Morris (zoologist and author of best-seller The Naked Ape) to turn his attention to the male frame. However, he would have been…

Jodi Picoult, Terry Dodson

Jodi Picoult, Terry Dodson & Rachel Dodson - Wonder Woman: Love and Murder

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

SUPERHERO (DC) Novellist Jodi Picoult (who gave us bestseller My Sister’s Keeper) makes her first foray into graphic fiction and surprisingly she’s the first female writer to take on the monthly Wonder Woman title. This gripping work follows Diana…

Lucie Whitehouse - The House at Midnight

Lucie Whitehouse - The House at Midnight

(1 star)4 Jan 2008

MYSTERY DRAMA (Bloomsbury) Employing a strategy inherently demanding that there’s no good reason to use one paragraph to describe paintings about Greek gods when an entire page-and-a-half will do, Lucie Whitehouse’s debut ultimately borders on the…

Confessions of a Blabbermouth

Mike Carey, Louise Carey & Aaron Alexovich - Confessions of a Blabbermouth

(3 stars)4 Jan 2008

TEEN (Minx) Minx is a DC imprint, created as a way to entice teenage girls into graphic-novel reading, and while this may at first seem a little patronising, the genre is unfortunately still viewed by most as the preserve of speccy adolescent males.

Preview 2008 - Books

4 Jan 2008

So, surely this year will mark a big new beginning when proper literature, you know, actual novels, replaces the ridiculously self-serving and endless charade that is the celebrity autobiography? Nah, not really. 2008 will witness little in the way of a…

Richard T Kelly

4 Jan 2008

Richard T Kelly is laughing at the jibe that his debut novel is a cross between Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers and Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty. It’s a cutesy icebreaker and this editor and writer whose published works to date have…

Tom Paulin - The Secret Life of Poems

Tom Paulin - The Secret Life of Poems

(2 stars)4 Jan 2008

LITERARY CRITICISM (Faber) The extent to which you’re likely to enjoy Tom Paulin’s The Secret Life of Poems depends entirely on what you’re hoping to get out of it. If you’re looking for a ‘poetry primer’ (as the book is billed) that breaks down every…

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