05-01-2005, 07:20 PM
FEEL: ROBBIE WILLIAMS - Chris Heath
When Chris HeathÂ’s book with Robbie Williams was first published in September 2004 it became an instantaneous bestseller. So far, so predictable...
However its honesty, humour and intelligence took the literary critics by surprise. The review in the Saturday Telegraph read, ‘Feel is far too good to be confined to Robbie Williams fans. It is one of the great documentaries of our time’. In a world of deceptive images and pampered celebrity Feel has a unique wit and energy, and a shockingly honest edge. It is a groundbreaking book.
Chris HeathÂ’s writing is evocative, compulsive and extremely funny. His book is one of the very few to ever explore eloquently the nature of fame, ambition and talent. It has been praised as the most extraordinary book ever to be written on the business of celebrity, but at heart it is a beautifully constructed, very surreal tale of an ordinary young man thrust into a most peculiar world.
THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB - Karen Joy Fowler
Six people, five women and a man, meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, but each of them is wounded in different ways and are mixed up about their lives and relationships.
Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, and unsuitable arrangements become suitable. Under the guiding eye of Jane Austen a couple of them even fall in love.
CLOUD ATLAS - David Mitchell
In Cloud Atlas David Mitchell combines the stories of six individuals to create a masterful whole, which is both thought provoking and incredibly exhilarating.
The morality and ambitions of a reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan’s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified ‘dinery server’ on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation, echo and impact on each others stories down the corridor of history and point to a terrifying vision of the world’s future which challenges our ability to shape not only our destiny but those that will come after us.
THE SIXTH LAMENTATION - William Brodrick
What should you do if the world has turned against you? When Father Anselm is asked this question by an old man at Larkwood Priory, his response, to claim sanctuary, is to have greater resonance than he could ever have imagined. For that evening the old man returns, demanding the protection of the church.
His name is Eduard Schwermann and he is wanted by the police as a suspected war criminal. With her life running out, Agnes Aubret feels it is time to unburden to her granddaughter Lucy the secrets she has been carrying for so long.
Fifty years earlier, Agnes had been living in Occupied Paris, a member of a small group risking their lives to smuggle Jewish children to safety – until they were exposed by a young SS Officer: Eduard Schwermann.
As Anselm attempts to uncover Schwermann's past, and as Lucy's search into her grandmother's history continues, their investigations dovetail to reveal a remarkable story.
When Chris HeathÂ’s book with Robbie Williams was first published in September 2004 it became an instantaneous bestseller. So far, so predictable...
However its honesty, humour and intelligence took the literary critics by surprise. The review in the Saturday Telegraph read, ‘Feel is far too good to be confined to Robbie Williams fans. It is one of the great documentaries of our time’. In a world of deceptive images and pampered celebrity Feel has a unique wit and energy, and a shockingly honest edge. It is a groundbreaking book.
Chris HeathÂ’s writing is evocative, compulsive and extremely funny. His book is one of the very few to ever explore eloquently the nature of fame, ambition and talent. It has been praised as the most extraordinary book ever to be written on the business of celebrity, but at heart it is a beautifully constructed, very surreal tale of an ordinary young man thrust into a most peculiar world.
THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB - Karen Joy Fowler
Six people, five women and a man, meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, but each of them is wounded in different ways and are mixed up about their lives and relationships.
Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, and unsuitable arrangements become suitable. Under the guiding eye of Jane Austen a couple of them even fall in love.
CLOUD ATLAS - David Mitchell
In Cloud Atlas David Mitchell combines the stories of six individuals to create a masterful whole, which is both thought provoking and incredibly exhilarating.
The morality and ambitions of a reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan’s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified ‘dinery server’ on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation, echo and impact on each others stories down the corridor of history and point to a terrifying vision of the world’s future which challenges our ability to shape not only our destiny but those that will come after us.
THE SIXTH LAMENTATION - William Brodrick
What should you do if the world has turned against you? When Father Anselm is asked this question by an old man at Larkwood Priory, his response, to claim sanctuary, is to have greater resonance than he could ever have imagined. For that evening the old man returns, demanding the protection of the church.
His name is Eduard Schwermann and he is wanted by the police as a suspected war criminal. With her life running out, Agnes Aubret feels it is time to unburden to her granddaughter Lucy the secrets she has been carrying for so long.
Fifty years earlier, Agnes had been living in Occupied Paris, a member of a small group risking their lives to smuggle Jewish children to safety – until they were exposed by a young SS Officer: Eduard Schwermann.
As Anselm attempts to uncover Schwermann's past, and as Lucy's search into her grandmother's history continues, their investigations dovetail to reveal a remarkable story.
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