Book Reviews
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Pyongyang by Guy Delisle
Kim Il-Sung is the Eternal Leader of North Korea, whose death ten years ago still can't stop him from holding the presidency Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Shenzhen by Guy Deslisle
Everyday life in the city that serves as a communist country's main trading post with the capitalist West Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Wimbledon Green by Seth
This book retains the zany sort of fun Seth must have had in writing it Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
the cumulative impact is moving and profound - mature and graceful Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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The Very Best of Monty Python, by 'Monty Python'
The famous cheese shop skit, with John Cleese removed, becomes just a list of types of cheese. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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500 Reasons Why I Hate the Office by Malcolm Burgess
If, for some reason, you need to read a hack book about how unbearable your work life is you are just adding, masochist-like, to your woes. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006
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Cautionary Tales: Comic Verse for The Twenty First Century by James Landale
Landale has replaced Belloc's characters, who Run Away from Nurse and Slam Doors, with twenty first century hell raisers who instead Play Computer Games, Shoplift and Wind Up With An ASBO. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
The Monarch of the Glen' charts the rise of an ancient evil in the Scottish Highlands (obvious when you think about it) Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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The Secret River by Kate Grenville
subjects such as the breakdown of family relations and the stifling atmosphere of eighteenth century London are described without qualms or precedent Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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House of Meetings by Martin Amis
an astonishing command of grammar and a vocabulary that the average dictionary would envy Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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The Gift - Lewis Hyde
his examples serve as a fascinating survey of human myth-making Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Scots Who Made America, by Rick Wilson
The first man on the moon was the son of a Scotsman and Uncle Sam himself came from Greenock Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Idea in Stone - Hamish MacDonald (Self-published)
The characters are paper thin, clichéd and unbearable Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Alexander McCall Smith - Dream Angus
Like a fairytale for adults, a light, rose-tinted book that almost passes you by Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Would I be too emphatic in saying that this is one of the best books I have read all year? No, because quite simply it is. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006