It Just Occured to Me . . .: An Autobiographical ScrapbookBy Humphrey LytteltonHardcover: 224 pagesPublisher: Anova Books (July 1, 2006)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1861059019ISBN-13: 978-1861059017  Humphrey Lyttelton belongs to that section of the UK population (10%, is the generally accepted percentage, so I’m told) which, all these year’s on from Keir Hardie’s flat-cap, persists in laying claim ...

Hollywood StationBy Joseph WambaughMass Market Paperback: 432 pagesPublisher: Vision (October 1, 2007)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0446401242ISBN-13: 978-0446401241 ‘I have been waiting a long time for this book,’ says Michael Connelly, best-selling author of LA-based police detective thrillers, ‘and two pages in I knew it was worth every minute, month and year. Joseph Wambaugh is the master of the ...

Matters of Life and DeathBy Bernard MacLavertyHardcover: 240 pagesPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company (September 17, 2006)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 039305716XISBN-13: 978-0393057164 Bernard MacLaverty now has five novels to his name and five collections of short stories, too – and Matters of Life and Death (2006) is his best collection of short stories to date. Not that there was anything amiss...

Nothing But Blue SkiesBy Timothy James KeoghPaperback: 160 pagesPublisher: Keoboy Publications (July 1, 2009)ISBN-10: 0956288103ISBN-13: 978-0956288103   Mancunian from the start, Middletonian since the Princess Royal’s first wedding day, with undeniable Sky Blue affiliations if too severely put to the test by Sky Reds of little brain, I confess to reading at one sitting Nothing but Blue Ski...

Manchester United – Man and BabeBy Wilf McGuinness and Ivan PontingHardcover: 272 pagesPublisher: Pitch Publishing (October 1, 2008)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1848185030ISBN-13: 978-1848185036 With a generously bubbly 1200 word Foreword penned by the author’s good friend and former team mate, Sir Bobby Charlton, and no fewer than 140-plus photographs within its 316 page format, it is quite unb...

The Devil Wears PradaBy Lauren WeisbergerPaperback: 368 pagesPublisher: Broadway (April 13, 2004)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0767914767ISBN-13: 978-0767914765 At 448 pages, The Devil Wears Prada is an enormous novel. A work of fiction, and, perhaps, chick-lit, it is a story about a young woman, Andrea Sachs (‘Andy’) who has recently graduated from college and stumbles into the hectic world of h...

Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst DogBy John GroganHardcover: 466 pagesPublisher: William Morrow; 1ST edition (2005)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0739461192ISBN-13: 978-0739461198 If you’d like to laugh, cry and be entertained all at once, this memoir is the book for you. John Grogan, a journalist, tells a tale about his dog and, on the back cover of this book, it is stated as fol...

The Old Man & The Monkey: The story of a friendshipBy George PolleyPaperback: 60 pagesPublisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (March 25, 2010)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1451543778ISBN-13: 978-1451543773 This work of fiction opens with this paragraph: In a small park near one of the rivers in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, there is a bronze statue of an old man and a monkey seated side by ...

The Slippery Art of Book ReviewingBy Mayra Calvani and Anne K. EdwardsPaperbackPublisher: Twilight Times Books; First Edition edition (2008)Language: EnglishASIN: B0064GADLU Have you read a review and wondered whether it is good or bad? Have you ever wanted to venture into writing reviews but don’t know how to begin? Are you wary of writing a review and having publishers think that it might be to...