http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/leisure/entertainment/books/reviews/ The Northern Echo /leisure/entertainment/books/reviews/ en-gb Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:23:52 +0100 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:23:52 +0100 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/leisure/entertainment/books/reviews/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk (Nigel Vincent) webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk (Tim Joy) http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/resources/images/850268/?type=rsslogo http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/leisure/entertainment/books/reviews/ http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/leisure/entertainment/books/reviews/4478313.Cardus__Celebrant_of_Beauty_by_Robin_Daniels__Palatine_Books____25_/?ref=rss There will never be another cricket writer to equal Neville Cardus, says Harry Mead. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:54:29 +0100 c7134ba8535c4f330f0964b650eab7b8 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/leisure/entertainment/books/reviews/4478328.The_Official_Ashes_Treasures_by_Bernard_Whimpress___Carlton____30_/?ref=rss WITH Ashes fever set to dominate the nation’s sporting interest for the majority of the summer, now could not be a better time to immerse yourself in this lovingly-compiled companion book. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:56:57 +0100 238ab40b2cc6fbeba717b1e6aaf010e5 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/leisure/entertainment/books/reviews/4466049.The_Good_Plain_Cook_by_Bethan_Roberts__Serpent___s_Tail____7_99_/?ref=rss A WONDERFUL glimpse into sex, class and cooking in the 1930s. A rich and Bohemian American – much given to naked sunbathing – lives with her lover, a would-be poet, in a cottage in the English countryside and employs a shy and inexperienced local teenager as a cook. The resulting confusions – complicated further by the presence of the lovers’ two precocious children and a strong, silent gardener – is a delicious microcosm of the class war, subtly and wittily done, so that we are smiling until we realise the darkness of it all. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:50:05 +0100 f3b26c2b58ded77d5e6a58f7c93663c7 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/leisure/entertainment/books/reviews/4466034.Confinement_by_Katharine_McMahon__Phoenix____7_99_/?ref=rss IN 1848 Bess Hardemon starts as a teacher at a grim school (think Jane Eyre’s Lowood) and battles benefactors, parents, staff and endless committees to turn it into a success. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:44:58 +0100 57e84eeb14f1f38c57bbe9304cae8005 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/leisure/entertainment/books/reviews/4466021.It_s_a_PC_world__What_it_Means_to_Live_in_a_Land_Gone_Politically_Correct_by_Edward_Stourton__Hodder____7_99_/?ref=rss The only way to counter an increasingly PC world, is to satirise it, says Peter Mullen. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:40:32 +0100 bf02e48591dc518fb57805c89a3beea4 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/leisure/entertainment/books/reviews/4466067.Take_That__Now_and_Then_by_Martin_Roach__HarperCollins____16_99_/?ref=rss The full story, from fame first time around as a boy band, to mega-comeback as hugely popular man-band, this well illustrated book is a must for all fans of the singers... with or without Robbie. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:55:54 +0100 fce657f457c9cd5bbf618ed760c8d278 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/leisure/entertainment/books/reviews/4466056.Comfort_to_the_Enemy_by_Elmore_Leonard__Weidenfeld_and_Nicholson____18_99_/?ref=rss THE latest offering from the master of American crime writing follows the development of Carl Webster from a naive but trepidatious teen to the hot kid of the Marshal service. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:52:50 +0100 3cfd9f92c69da22c6e954f4a247a5adb http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/leisure/entertainment/books/reviews/4453597.Rosko_by_Phil_P_Mitchell__Alberts_Press____7_99_/?ref=rss TYNESIDE private investigator Rosko started out as an honest cop who unfortunately fell foul of his corrupt boss, but now a case brings him up against his old nemesis who is stronger then ever. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:33:40 +0100 e4396cebc6a7fadb13598bef83c879bf http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/leisure/entertainment/books/reviews/4453593.Midnight_Fugue_by_Reginald_Hill__HarperCollins____17_99_/?ref=rss MORE delight for Dalziel and Pascoe fans as the mid-Yorkshire detectives try to solve a murder case which embroils them in corruption in the Met, the murky goings-on in the world of “investigative journalism” and the even murkier world of national politics. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:30:53 +0100 1d44cd96695231e3dd4c0dc9b3d37dce http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/leisure/entertainment/books/reviews/4453506.Memoirs_of_a_Moldywarp_by_Peter_Ryder/?ref=rss Harry Mead admires the pluck of a burrowing band of brothers. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:05:18 +0100 5958e73c8cbb2418d5911d6e445e929e