http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=53&catid=55News Feed for - Book-reviewshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96204053&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-22T04:15:00Lyttelton, London WH Auden, the Oxford oracle, is peeing into his washbasin. He's waiting for a rent boy to arrive in his college rooms; he's stuck over his stanzas; he looks not so much like a bag person Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96192651&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-22T04:15:00Machine gun prose meets labyrinthine plot in James Ellroy's latest, says Sean O'Hagan The title of James Ellroy's latest novel is taken from AE Housman's poem "Reveille", a very English meditation on Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96182883&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-22T04:15:00This 1825 account of one man's passionate relationship with food remains an appetising read, says Mary Fitzgerald Since its completion in 1825, this handbook has appeared in so many different guises Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96117802&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-22T04:15:00Nabokov's incomplete last novel shows flashes of brilliance, but why it was published remains unclear, says William Skidelsky This is a book that wouldn't exist if its author had had his way. Shortly Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96192758&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-22T00:15:00A bravura biography paints a masterly portrait of Charles II, says Geraldine Bedell In May 1660, Charles II disembarked in front of cheering crowds at Dover, following a nine-year exile. He had been invited Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96192697&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-22T00:15:00Jack Kerouac, William Styron and VS Naipaul among others offer stunning insights into the art of writing, says Jessica Holland Writing is difficult and painful and writers are all a little mad. That's Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96186158&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-21T22:04:00"" by Marc Spitz (Crown, 429 pages) isn't just about David Bowie. After the Beatles, there was David Bowie. I'm not equating them, not by a long shot, but Bowie's music felt like a big change from what CNET News.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96138752&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-21T04:31:00John Preston reviews Helena Bonham-Carter in BBC Four's biopic of children's author Enid Blyton. Published: 6:21PM GMT 20 Nov 2009 Enid (Monday, BBC Four), a dramatised biography of Enid Blyton starring Telegraphhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96138230&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-21T04:27:00The Cartoons that Shook the World , by Jytte Klausen (Yale, £20) In what deserves to become the definitive account of the Danish cartoon controversy of 2005-6, none of the major actors comes out looking Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96120795&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-21T04:25:00Frances Leviston is charmed by a vision of northern England in a debut collection "O collapser of delicate moods and arch lyrical poignancies! / damper of youthful enthusiasms! / user of out-of-date Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96117870&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-21T04:26:00Miranda Seymour enjoys a detailed insight into the daunting life of a Victorian hostess Gertrude Tennant, a centenarian born in 1818, was one of those formidable 19th-century hostesses whose names surface Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96117643&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-21T04:27:00Sue Arnold on Stephenie Meyer, Michael Crichton, Michael Morpurgo, Neil Gaiman and others Breaking Dawn , by Stephenie Meyer, read by Ilyana Kadushin and Matt Walters (21hrs unabridged, Hachette, £24.99) Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=95861079&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-18T02:52:00The Edible Series of food histories (Reaktion, $15.95 each) has cooked up a plan to answer such questions. Nine of its elegant little volumes have been published thus far and at least 20 more are planned, Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96111661&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-20T23:15:00If your last fond memory of a bovine sitting under a tree is a bull named Ferdinand, and you loved Mike Mulliganâ??s steam shovel, Mary Ann, this book is for you, though it includes neither a bull nor Chicago Tribunehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96111651&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-20T23:15:00This is the story you dont know, one that happened after Jackie Robinson moved his family out to Connecticut. The best thing about this book is that Sharon Robinson and Kadir Nelson can retell the story Chicago Tribunehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96111640&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-20T23:15:00The opening picture shows the world into which Django Reinhardt was born, in 1910, in Belgium. A small caravan sits on the outskirts of a city. Django plays his banjo on the streets of Paris, and soon Chicago Tribunehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96104167&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-20T20:30:00To engage in some literary hopscotch momentarily, consider that the poet and novelist Brad Leithauser, writing in Slate magazine on John Updike, connected his subject with Henry James's admonition that Chicago Tribunehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96091650&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-20T18:50:00EATING ANIMALS By Jonathan Safran Foer Little, Brown. 341 pp. $25.99 It's tempting to dismiss Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Eating Animals' as the product of a cocky, self-involved writer who woke up one day Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96181277&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-21T22:24:00November 2009 vine AFP/DON EMMERT $ new $adsHtml google_ad_request_done(google_ads) s 'Ads by for(i i i++) // the banned sections myRegExp new // if it is an article myRegExp2 new (myRegExp.test(ref_url) The Independenthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96156732&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-21T14:09:00Lost Voices From The Titanic âÂ?Â? The Definitive Oral History by Nick Barratt is published by Preface Publishing, priced Ã?£20. This new book about the world's most famous shipwreck confirms unpleasant The Scotsmanhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96167920&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-22T21:42:00As you read Haleh Esfandiaris memoir of imprisonment in Iran, its easy to lose track of time, both because her compelling tale draws you in and because similar situations are still playing out in her Kansas City Starhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=95821352&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-22T21:42:00The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future. Lifetime achievement winner Gore Vidal envisioned only pulp and dust Wednesday as he contemplated Kansas City Starhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96117959&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-21T00:22:00How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Irish Tiger by Fintan O'Toole Faber, 224pp, £12.99 IN THE 1980s I lived for half a dozen years in Ireland. It's an easy country to fall in love with, and I did. The Scotsmanhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96117731&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-21T00:20:00A Change In Altitude By Anita Shreve Little, Brown, 291pp, £16.99 BEING a prolific writer can count against you. One novel every three or four years is all well and good, but to be seen to be churning The Scotsmanhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96117651&Channel_ID=53&Category_ID=552009-11-21T00:20:00Truth or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston Headline Review, 152pp, £14.99 JENNIFER Johnston is an elegant and economical writer, whose novels are always beautifully structured. The title of her new book â?' The Scotsman