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Also Published - 5 Unit Shifters

17 Jan 2008

Cathy Kelly - Lessons in Heartbreak Izzie has broken her own rules about having affairs with married men while her ageing aunt has just discovered her husband’s infidelity. HarperCollins . Monty Don - Around the World in 80 Gardens The presenter…

Mike Dash - Satan’s Circus

Mike Dash - Satan’s Circus

(3 stars)17 Jan 2008

TRUE CRIME (Granta) ‘Nearly five million men and women have served the United States as police officers. Only one has been executed for murder.’ There is little doubt that Charles Becker was more than just a bad apple, in an early 20th century New…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

Alistair Findlay

Alistair Findlay (ED) - 100 Favourite Scottish Football Poems

(4 stars)29 Nov 2007

POETRY 100 Favourite Scottish Football Poems (Luath) When it comes to transferring the beautiful game into the arts sphere, all we can see is a litany of own goals. Can you remember a half-decent football film? No, Escape to Victory doesn’t count…

Also Published - 5 US Crime Dramas

29 Nov 2007

Otto Penzler (ed) Dead Man’s Hand A collection of newly written poker-based tales from crime writers such as Jeffrey Deaver, Michael Connelly and Walter Mosley. Quercus. James Lee Burke The Tin Roof Blowdown A cache of stolen diamonds has floated…

Robin Ramsay - Who Shot JFK?

Robin Ramsay - Who Shot JFK?

(3 stars)29 Nov 2007

TRUE CRIME Who Shot JFK? (Pocket Essentials) Early on in this pacy dissection of the current state of the JFK assassination industry, Robin Ramsay asks why we should still be bothered about the slaying of an American president in downtown Dallas…

Charlie Brooker

Charlie Brooker

(5 stars)15 Nov 2007

COLLECTED JOURNALISM Dawn of the Dumb (Faber) Listening to a verbose man rant on and on about the things that irritate him can be a relentless and exhausting chore at times. Put that down in print and those same demented opinions can appear more…

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