Books, Issue 666
8 articles
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Kevin MacNeil - A Method Actor’s Guide to Jekyll and Hyde
7 Sep 2010
The classic tale of Jekyll and Hyde influenced the latest novel by Kevin MacNeil. Brian Donaldson hears from an author who believes there are at least two sides to every story
Sarah Silverman - The Bedwetter
7 Sep 2010
(Faber) There’ve been plenty of reasons to be slightly scornful of Sarah Silverman’s rise to infamy. With a demeanour which suggested that butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth (usually because there was no room to fit both butter and all those potty…
DBC Pierre - Lights out in Wonderland
7 Sep 2010
(Faber) The third novel from Booker-winner DBC Pierre promises vivid, unthinkable decadence, but delivers a self-absorbed quarter-life crisis. Chronicling the alleged end days of suicidal pamphleteer Gabriel Brockwell – wannabe miscreant…
Christopher Brookmyre discusses Pandaemonium around Scotland
7 Sep 2010
A busy old fortnight for the king of comedic Tartan Noir with his opening event of three coming as part of a highly impressive double bill with Mark Billingham, whose ’tec, DI Thorne, will soon be made flesh on the small Sky One screen c/o David…
The Faber Book of New South American Cinema - Demetrios Matheou
1 Sep 2010
“This book is very much concerned with personal filmmaking”, Demetrios Matheou insists in the introduction to New South American Cinema, a book of interviews with various filmmakers from the region. But South American film seems as close to the Korean…
Vidal Sassoon
1 Sep 2010
The Life and Times of a Style Icon
(Macmillan) Vidal Sassoon was once called ‘the Chanel of hair’ by his friend Mary Quant. While she was upping skirt lengths during the 60s, he was busy revolutionising attitudes to hair. He thought back combing, hairspraying and spaceman-helmet…
Robert Alan Jamieson - Da Happie Laand
1 Sep 2010
(Luath) We imagine Robert Alan Jamieson spent a lot of noggin-aching days and nights trying to work out how to match what he accomplished with A Day at the Office, the 1991 novel regarded by many as one of the greatest Scottish works of all time.
Eddie Campbell & Daren White - The Playwright
1 Sep 2010
(Knockabout) The Playwright is perhaps unusual compared to so many comics, being simply a gentle character study of a middle-aged writer. There’s no grand story arch, just a dip into someone’s life, examining their foibles and opening up their psyche.
