by bertbaby | Dec 17, 2013 | Book Reviews
Critic and ardent home cook Heller McAlpin recommends new cookbooks whose winning voices and visual delights are just as beguiling as the dishes they highlight.
by bertbaby | Dec 17, 2013 | Book Reviews
December 17: ‘I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour…”
by bertbaby | Dec 17, 2013 | Book Reviews
Embedding himself into the lives of demobbed soldiers and their families, David Finkel manages to convey all the excruciating trials and tribulations, glories and gratitudes of the modern military.
by bertbaby | Dec 17, 2013 | Book Reviews
The number of humans who have been into space is vanishingly small, but Col. Chris Hadfield has managed to crystallize his orbital experiences into a text of inspirational gleanings as vivid as Saturn’s rings.
by bertbaby | Dec 17, 2013 | Book Reviews
With its first presentation in English, Irmgard Keun’s revolutionary and audacious 1931 novel about a little shopgirl who dared should now find the wider audience it fully deserves.
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