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Wednesday, 9 March 2011
ROBERT'S RULES OF WRITING book review
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Title: ROBERT'S RULES OF WRITING:
Author: ROBERT MASELLO
There are actually 102 rules, but who is counting? You already have a million books about how to write. You know the principles, the lectures, the 'expert' techniques and you have, of course, discovered that sometimes 'tried-and-true' just equals tired. In this breath of fresh air for writers, a successful author stomps out status quo writing advice and delivers 101, well, OK, 102, uninhibited techniques to improve your writing. They include: Strip down to your briefs or knickers. Spend time gossiping. Skip the Starbucks and take up whittling. Whether you are a fiction writer, freelancer, memoirist or screen writer, this book gives you unorthodox advice on how to transform your writing life and get published. With a table listing the rules so they are easy to access.
Published Price: £9.99
BIBLIOPHILE PRICE: £4
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
WHY JESUS DIDN'T MARRY MARY MAGDALENE Book review
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Title: WHY JESUS DIDN'T MARRY MARY MAGDALENE
Author: JOHN VAN SCHAIK
Subtitled 'A Short History of Esoteric Christianity', this book is an antidote to the vague theories and fantastic claims that have long surrounded the question of the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Dan Browne's The Da Vinci Code proposed a theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and this idea has caught the popular imagination worldwide. Where the Church has simply tried to dismiss the question, this fascinating book addresses it head-on and seriously considers all the evidence. Van Schaik uses his vast knowledge of esoteric Christianity to explore Christian history and the secret practices of the time of Jesus. To the likely disappointment of conspiracy theorists, he concludes firmly that they were not a couple. 142pp in softback.
Published Price: £8.99
BIBLIOPHILE PRICE: £4
Friday, 4 March 2011
CASEFILES OF MR J. G. REEDER Book review
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Title: CASEFILES OF MR J. G. REEDER
Author: EDGAR WALLACE
Let us introduce you to the enigmatic J. G. Reeder, a timid, gentle middle-aged man who carries a furled up umbrella and wears an old-fashioned flat-topped bowler hat. He is one of the great unsung sleuths of mystery fiction, created by the prolific Edgar Wallace, the 'King of Thrillers'. Despite his insignificant appearance, Reeder is a cold and ruthless detective who credits his success to his 'criminal mind' which allows him to solve a series of complex and audacious crimes and outwit the most cunning of villainous masterminds. This volume is a rich feast for crime fiction fans, containing the first three volumes in the Reeder canon: two novels, Room 13 and Terror Keep; and the classic collection of short stories, The Mind of J. G. Reeder. 434pp. Wordsworth paperback.
BIBLIOPHILE PRICE: £3
Thursday, 3 March 2011
IMAGINING PARADISE Book Review
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Title: IMAGINING PARADISE: The Richard and Ronay Menschel Library
Author: SHEILA FOSTER ET AL
Rare works of great consequence can be found within the library of Richard and Ronay Menschel at George Eastman House in Rochester, USA, renowned for its collection of books on photographic history. More than 250 rare books have been carefully selected for this superb tome to reflect the incomparable strength and depth of this unparalleled remarkable library. Each work is richly illustrated and accompanied by commentary written by prominent scholars in photographic history. The selected works represent a broad range of subjects - bucolic landscape, travel and exploration, science and medicine, the literary and the illustrious. Groundbreaking publications by featured photographers include the Incunabula of William Henry Fox Talbot, the Reveries of Maxime du Camp and Francis Frith, the idyllic visions of Peter Henry Emerson and the exceptional books by Alvin Langdon Coburn, both published and unpublished. You will find highlights of the turn-of-the-century international art movement as well as Alfred Stieglitz's momentous Camera Work and 291. The book features works with many and various photographic processes - tipped-in original salt prints, albumen prints, platinum prints, photogravures, carbonprints, collotypes and Woodbury types. The book offers a glimpse into the library's many versions of Daguerre's seminal instructional manuals describing the Daguerreotype process with translations in five different languages. Here too are landmark manuals, journals and technical books published during the first 50 years of photography written for both amateur and professional. Rare works include the copy of the Treaty between Great Britain and China signed at Nanking in 1842 with the Chinese text copied by the photographic process licensed by Talbot to W. Henry Collen, the only known photographic copy of the Treaty that ended the First Opium War and ceded Hong Kong. Also presented are works of exceptional beauty such as The Holy Bible, a two volume edition dating from 1862-63, bound in rich red Moroccan leather with gold letter press, finished with bronze clasp and illustrated in the 1860s with 56 photos by Francis Frith. We open the gates to a special library we may never have chance to visit. 2007 first edition. 288pp lavishly illus, 11" x 12".
Published Price: $85.00
BIBLIOPHILE PRICE: £40
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