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The Day of Judgment Beckons Unless the Negatives Are Bought Book of the Moment

For the Death of Me Quintin Jardine

One Coffee-Table Book That's Actually Worth Reading First Word

I'VE NEVER really understood the concept of coffee-table books. The glossiest offspring of the publishing world, they are the supermodels of the bookshop, shrink-wrapped works of art intended to be viewed rather than touched. In this rarefied realm, presentation and glamour are all. Photos are king - the bigger, the better - and the more anorexic the text the more attractive the package. Whether it's a display of fashion plates or exotic wildlife, these are the sort of books you wish came wit...

Does He Mean a Word of It? Aa Gill's Latest Work Dresses Disturbing Verbal Attacks As Humour. Just Don't Expect a Laugh.

SOMETHING is missing from the index of this sad and savage book. It's the word piss. Oh, the index is impressive enough: a grand tour of AA Gill's intellectual hinterland, taking in Bauhaus, Shakespeare, Trotsky, Vita Sackville-West and Herodotus. Gosh, yes, indeedy, AA Gill is desperately clever (so clever, in fact, they named him twice).

The Strange Case of the Fictitious Detective

Sherlock Holmes, The Unauthorised Biography Nick Rennison

The Blurb a Quick Skim Through the Rest

Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life Lynne Truss

Fleeing the Demons the Original It Girl, Lee Miller's Life Is a Fairy Tale and a Horror Story Rolled Into One

A TALE of twenties New York. A beautiful young woman steps into the path of an oncoming car. At the last second she is pulled to safety by a stranger. He turns out to be Conde Nast, publisher of Vogue. Captivated by his fallen angel, he puts her on the cover of his magazine and makes her immortal.

Signs of the Times the Times of the 1980s and 1990s Is Dominated by Characters, Egos and the Absurd

THIS very long, official but not sycophantic history of the Times from 1981 to 2002 is dominated by two protracted and highly dramatic episodes. The author Graham Stewart describes both of them well, and fairly. The first is the debacle of the phoney Hitler diaries; the second is the bittersweet victory of the move to Wapping. The account of the fake diaries invites a kind of retrospective schadenfreude; the story of a union-smashing move across London a sort of grudging gratitude. In 1983, n...