Historical children's books: review
Telegraph - 53 Minutes ago
Toby Clements celebrates five historical novels for children The best writers of historical fiction dont let their chosen period crowd out the story, but use it as a colourful backdrop or foil for their Add Comment |
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Picture Books: review
Telegraph - 90 Minutes ago
Judith Woods gets lost in the latest batch of picture books, including the new Julia Donaldson Julia Donaldson, the author of The Gruffalo, is as big a celebrity as it gets in the world of picture books, Add Comment |
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Swinging into change
Guardian Unlimited - 7 Hours ago
'The 60s,' writes Jenny Diski in the introduction to her monograph, 'were an idea in the minds, perhaps even more powerful than the experience, of those who were actually living through them.' Diski's Add Comment |
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All quiet on the God front
Guardian Unlimited - 7 Hours ago
This is an eloquent and interesting book, although you do not quite get what it says on the tin. Karen Armstrong takes the reader through a history of religious practice in many different cultures, arguing Add Comment |
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A little light on the dark ages
Guardian Unlimited - 7 Hours ago
Anyone who did the Black Death at school - which must be just about everyone - will have hung on to certain key facts. First, it was spread by a rodent whose Latin name was the satisfyingly euphonious Add Comment |
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Cultural Locations of Disability - Book Review
Disabled World - 3 Hours ago
Disability : Books and Publications Review: I learned something new and unanticipated from almost every page of this book. Snyder and Mitchell's Cultural Locations of Disability lays out in an extraordinary Add Comment |
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The master's voice
Guardian Unlimited - 7 Hours ago
The following wedge of prose has two things wrong with it: one big thing and one little thing - one infelicity and one howler. Read it with attention. If you can spot both, then you have what is called Add Comment |
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Food, Inc
Guardian Unlimited - 7 Hours ago
Still, I might be better off eating crisps than a lot of other industrial food products, as this printed complement to the documentary film of the same title demonstrates. It includes a 'making of' essay Add Comment |
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Mr Toppit
Guardian Unlimited - 7 Hours ago
The woods around the Hayman family's Dorset home stretch for 300 acres, taking in caves, clearings and a bowl-like quarry. They are a fine landscape for the imagination, and the genial Arthur spins yarns Add Comment |
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Liberty
Guardian Unlimited - 7 Hours ago
Another visit to Lake Wobegon, where Clint Bunsen, a 60-year-old car mechanic, is attempting to organise the Fourth of July parade while negotiating an extramarital affair with a spiritual healer 30 years Add Comment |
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America, America
Guardian Unlimited - 7 Hours ago
Told in flashbacks, this is the story of Corey Sifter, teenage son of a union man, who gets a Saturday job on the estate of a New York magnate and becomes embroiled in the family's life and political Add Comment |
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Flood
Guardian Unlimited - 7 Hours ago
After years as hostages, locked away in the basements of a war-torn Spain and handed from one extremist faction to another, Lily, Piers, Gary and Helen emerge to a much-changed world. It's raining most Add Comment |
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The Scourging Angel by Benedict Gummer: review
Telegraph - 10 Hours ago
The Scourging Angel, Benedict Gummer's fascinating study of the Black Death, shows that the pandemic that killed half the population left opportunity as well as misery in its wake, says Noel Malcolm Try Add Comment |
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Julia Keller
Chicago Tribune - 11 Hours ago
Salesmen have a trick. It's a well-known trick, but even though you know it's coming, it really works: They use your name over and over again in their spiel. Hearing your name operates as a sort of verbal Add Comment |
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