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| •11/08/2009 • Leave a Comment Title: How to Paint a Dead Man Author: Sarah Hall Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Faber and Faber (4 Jun 2009) Language English ISBN-10: 057122489X ISBN-13: 978-0571224890 Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.6 x 2.8 cm Product DescriptionItaly in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him. He begins his last life painting, using the same objects he has painted obsessively for his entire career – a small group of bottles. In Cumbria 30 years later, a landscape artist – and admirer of the Italian recluse – finds himself trapped in the extreme terrain that has made him famous. And in present-day London, his daughter, an art curator struggling with the sudden loss of her twin brother while trying to curate an exhibition about the lives of the twentieth-century European masters, is drawn into a world of darkness and sexual abandon. Covering half a century, this is a luminous and searching novel, and Hall’s most accomplished work to date. About the AuthorSarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974 and now lives and works there. Her first novel, Haweswater, was published by Faber in 2002. Her second, The Electric Michelangelo, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2004. In 2007 Sarah won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Posted in literary blogs
Tags: How To Paint A Dead Man, Sarah Hall •11/07/2009 • Leave a Comment Title: The Forgotten Garden Author: Kate Morton Paperback: 350 pages Publisher: Pan (29 May 2008) Language English ISBN-10: 0330449605 ISBN-13: 978-0330449601 Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 4.4 cm Product DescriptionA lost child . . . On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her –but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret . . . On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family. A mysterious inheritance . . . On Nell’s death, her granddaughter, Cassandra, comes into an unexpected inheritance. Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the secrets they hold – secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family and their ward Eliza Makepeace, a writer of dark Victorian fairytales. It is here that Cassandra will finally uncover the truth about the family, and solve the century-old mystery of a little girl lost. About the Author Kate Morton grew up in the mountains of southeast Queensland, Australia. She has degrees in Dramatic Art and English Literature and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Queensland. Kate lives with her husband and young son in Brisbane. The Forgotten Garden is her second novel. You can find more information about Kate and her books at www.katemorton.com. Buy Online: http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/1416550542 Posted in literary blogs
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Tags: author, Bibliophil, books, Library, title •11/06/2009 • Comments Off Title: Me Cheeta: The Autobiography Author: James Lever and Cheeta Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd (28 May 2009) Language English ISBN-10: 0007280165 ISBN-13: 978-0007280162 Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm Product DescriptionThe incredible, moving and hilarious story of Cheeta the Chimp, simian star of the big screen, on a behind-the-scenes romp through the golden years of Hollywood. The greatest Hollywood Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller, died in 1984. Maureen O’Sullivan, his Jane, died in 1998. Weissmuller’s son, who first played Boy in the 1939 film ‘Tarzan Finds a Mate’, has gone too. But Cheeta the Chimp, who starred with them all, is alive and well, retired in Palm Springs as an abstract painter. At the incredible age of seventy-six, he is by far the oldest living chimpanzee ever recorded. Now, in this extraordinary debut novel, James Lever uncovers the astonishing tale of Cheeta! Cheeta was just a baby when snatched from the Liberian jungle in 1932, by the great animal importer Henry Trefflich, who went on to supply NASA with its ‘Monkeys for Space’ programme. That same year, Cheeta appeared in ‘Tarzan the Ape Man’, and in 1934 ‘Tarzan and His Mate’, in which he famously stole the clothes from a naked O’Sullivan, dripping wet from an underwater swimming scene with Weissmuller. Full of humour, wit and emotion, James Lever’s novel tells the truly unique tale of a monkey stolen from deepest Africa and forced to make a living among the fake jungles and outrageous stars of Hollywood’s golden age. Cheeta’s tinseltown journey extends beyond the screen, to his struggle with drink and addiction to cigars, his breakthrough with a radical new form of abstract painting, ‘Apeism’, his touching relationship with his retired nightclub-performing grandson Jeeta, now a considerable artist in his own right, his fondness for hamburgers and his battle in later life with diabetes, and, through thick and thin, carer Dan Westfall, his loving companion who has helped this magnificent monkey come to terms with his peculiar past. Funny, moving — and so searingly honest, you know it has to be fiction — ‘Me Cheeta’ transports us back to a lost Hollywood. Cheeta is a real star, and this is the greatest celebrity non-memoir of recent times! About the AuthorJames Lever was born in Bolton and educated in Oxford. He’s 38, and spent his twenties writing an 800-page novel called ‘News Sport Weather’, whose subject was ‘everything’. It wasn’t any good, and nor was it published. He lives in London, where he has worked as a comedy-writer and performer, reviewer, ghost and editor. ‘Me Cheeta’ is his first novel. Posted in literary blogs
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Tags: AllReaders.Com. book revoews, Authors, books •11/05/2009 • Comments Off Title: Midnight’s Children (Vintage Classics) Author: Salman Rushdie Paperback: 672 pages Publisher: Vintage Classics (1 May 2008) Language English ISBN-10: 0099511894 ISBN-13: 978-0099511892 Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 5 cm Product DescriptionBorn at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India’s independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other ‘midnight’s children’ all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem’s story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious. About the AuthorSalman Rushdie is the author of eight novels, one collection of short stories, and four works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. In 1993 Midnight’s Children was judged to be the ‘Booker of Bookers’, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. The Moor’s Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995, and the European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. Posted in literary blogs
Tags: Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie •11/04/2009 • Comments Off http://www.shelfari.com/ This social media site is focused on books. Members can build virtual bookshelves, discover, rate and discuss books, and participate in online groups.
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Tags: Authors, books, Library, shelf, WE Read •11/04/2009 • Comments Off Title: The Lucky One Author: Nicholas Sparks Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Sphere (7 May 2009) Language English ISBN-10: 0751539244 ISBN-13: 978-0751539240 Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2.6 cm Product DescriptionIs there really such a thing as a good luck charm? Ex-soldier Logan Thibault thinks he just might have found one. Haunted by memories of the friends he lost in Iraq, Logan knows how fortunate he is to be home. He believes that a photograph he carried with him, a picture of a smiling woman he’s never met, kept him safe. Even though he knows nothing about this woman, he hopes she might hold the key to his destiny. Resolving to find her, Logan embarks on a journey of startling discovery. Beth, the woman whose picture he holds, is struggling with problems of her own: her volatile ex-husband won’t accept their relationship is over and threatens anyone who gets too close to her. And, despite a growing attraction between them, Logan has kept one explosive secret from Beth: how he came across her photograph in the first place … About the AuthorThis is Nicholas Sparks’s 13th novel. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and five children. You can visit the author’s website at www.nicholassparks.com Posted in literary blogs
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