Book Reviews
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Book Reviews
Sugar-Coated Pill: Selected Poems - Mahmood Jamal
There is a clear sense of an approach to art and life that is grounded in the local and the human. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven - Alan Warner
Upon learning that he is HIV positive, Manollo Follana mostly just drifts around and Thinks About His Life. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
she remains a lone wolf, determined above all to remain independent of both patriarchy and matriarchy Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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The Walking Dead: Volumes 1-4 - Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard & Cliff Rathburn
Robert Kirkman tackles that most American of apocalypses: the zombie plague. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
This is a wonderful book, lyrically written Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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The Finishing School' by Muriel Spark
In an addendum to last month's obituary, we decided to re-read Muriel Spark's last published book. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006
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Book Reviews
Put The Book Back On The Shelf: A Belle & Sebastian Anthology - Various
At least when Kiss embarked on a ridiculous vanity comic book project they each mixed a vial of blood into the vat of red ink. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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The Architecture of Happiness - Alain de Botton
The book makes a walk around the city much more interesting - especially a city as architecturally rich as Edinburgh or Glasgow. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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The Dream Life of Sukhanov - Olga Grushin
Olga Grushin is obviously passionate about her subject, and for a first novel 'The Dream Life of Sukhanov' is dauntingly impressive. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Poetry to the People - The Callum Macdonald Memorial Award
Poetry in pamphlet form has become a cutting edge of creativity in Scottish poetry. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Everyman - Philip Roth
Great, moving, and a masterpiece Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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The Revenge of Gaia - James Lovelock
It is good science that will help us now, not this modern Jeremiad of hopelessness and gloom. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Innocent When You Dream: Tom Waits - The Collected Interviews - Mac Montadon (ed)
[I] think it's either Baltimore Negro or turn-of-the-century railroadese. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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School's Out - Christophe Dufossé
There are moments of dark humour and some genuinely disturbing characters, but there are more opportunities lost. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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Some Hope: A Trilogy & Mother's Milk - Edward St. Aubyn
funny, shocking and sad, but always beautifully written Read more »| 16 May 2006