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Mark Borkowski - The Fame Formula

Mark Borkowski - The Fame Formula

(4 stars)7 Aug 2008

ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY (Sidgwick & Jackson) Behind every great celebrity is a brilliant publicist. It’s this remarkable breed which is examined by Mark Borkowski, an experienced PR man himself, as he takes us back through the modern history of fame…

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…

Away

(Granta)

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

SOCIAL DRAMA Amy Bloom’s latest novel follows the journey of Lillian, a Russian woman who watches her family being brutally killed and then travels to America to escape those memories and her country. Once there, the plot rockets through a number of…

The Male Gaze

Joe Treasure

(3 stars)9 Apr 2007

BLACK COMEDY At first glance, The Male Gaze is cheerful dick-lit. English bloke, stuck in LA, feeling detached from his wife, meets vivacious American woman for out-of-character adventures. Things soon take a darker turn, as a young girl’s suicide…

Edward Dolnick

Stealing the Scream (Icon Books)

(3 stars)12 Feb 2007

ART HISTORY The title of Edward Dolnick’s light-hearted look at art history is misleading. This is less about the theft of Munch’s classic The Scream and more the tale of its saviour: policeman Charley Hill. The author worked with Hill to get the…

Sarah Miller

Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn (Bloomsbury)

(3 stars)26 Oct 2006

TEEN FICTION The premise of the book is interesting enough: for some unexplained reason a nameless female finds herself with full access to the confused mind of one Gideon Rayburn. Young Gid is just starting at an expensive prep school and the…

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