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National Year of Reading

National Year of Reading

28 Feb 2008

Compared to a stick that transforms into a golf club, tennis racket or aeroplane control, the book seems a poor choice of entertainment. But when was the last time a Nintendo Wii helped a child overcome bullying, get through their parents’ divorce or…

Martin Amis

Martin Amis - The Second Plane

Jonathan Cape

(4 stars)31 Jan 2008

For maximum enjoyment of The Second Plane, readers should ideally possess two things: an ambivalent approach to religion and a rather hefty dictionary. The first because Martin Amis is not, as some people suggest, anti-Muslim, just disparaging of any…

The Book of Other People

Zadie Smith (ED) - The Book of Other People

(3 stars)29 Nov 2007

ANTHOLOGY The Book of Other People (Hamish Hamilton) ‘Write a short story about a person,’ said Zadie Smith to 23 of fiction’s finest. And they did, each author taking the remit into a vastly different direction. From a New York socialite to a human…

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…

Ricky Gervais and Harry Hill

Ricky Gervais and Harry Hill

20 Sep 2007

CHILDREN’S BOOKS Once upon a time, it was perfectly acceptable for an entertainer to devote their life to one career. These days, however, if you don’t learn to ice skate, cook or dash off a kids’ book in your spare time, you’re a veritable…

Simon Parke

The Beautiful Life (Bloomsbury)

(3 stars)19 Dec 2006

LIFE GUIDE It’s been a fair few years since Moses scribbled down the Ten Commandments and for many of us, they’re a little outmoded. Stepping into the breach, with a whole new set of ideas to live your life by, is former priest Simon Parke. Subtitled…

Paul Auster

Travels in the Scriptorium (Faber)

(3 stars)26 Oct 2006

METAPHYSICAL DRAMA On the surface, Travels in the Scriptorium takes place in a small room with no means of escape. Its occupant, a confused old man known only as Mr Blank, finds even the most mundane tasks problematic. The who, where and why of…

Harry Hill

Horsing around

28 Sep 2006

Ricky Gervais, Charlie Higson, Nigel Planer: many a British comedian has deviated into the world of children’s literature. Yet none of them seemed quite so born to it as Harry Hill. The question wasn’t so much if the man who created the ‘Badger Parade…

Maggie O'Farrell

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (Review)

(4 stars)1 Sep 2006

SOCIAL DRAMA The parameters of mental illness have shifted over the years, but not so long ago young women could be sectioned simply for being what most parents term ‘a handful.’ The eponymous heroine of Maggie Farrell’s heartbreaking new novel is…

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