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Reviwe: Bring on the Apocalypse by George Monbiot

Bring on the Apocalypse : 6 Arguments For Global Justice by George Monbiot Atlantic, £8.99 The problem with climate change, according to George Monbiot, is that it simply isn't glamorous enough: terrorism can at least lay claim to a ...

From HEATHER THOMPSON, Guardian Unlimited,  31 Jan 2009
Related Topics: George Monbiot,  World Bank,  International Monetary Fund,  Martin Amis,  Jonathan Powell

Review: The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt

With Keynes chattering on about cocks in one corner and Strachey moaning about the vagaries of modern transport from another, business progresses pretty much as usual for the Cambridge Apostles. On the fringes sits GH Hardy. He may be an atheist, and ...

From HEATHER THOMPSON, Guardian Unlimited,  31 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Martin Amis,  Macromedia

Review: One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard

On a good night in Bethesda, Wales, in the mid 1910s, only two people are carted off to the asylum. In a village ruled by poverty, illness, religion and back-breaking labour, only the young narrator - devoted in nearly equal measures to his widowed mam, ...

From HEATHER THOMPSON, Guardian Unlimited,  10 Jan 2009

Review: Friday Nights by Joanna Trollope

One day at the bus stop Karen - wife, mother and worn-out breadwinner - experiences what she describes as a "metaphor moment". The grocery bags weigh heavily, the work bag even more so, and there she stands, absolutely powerless to make that darn bus ...

From HEATHER THOMPSON, Guardian Unlimited,  10 Jan 2009

Review: My Tango With Barbara Strozzi by Russell Hoban

Phil is short, weak and freshly divorced. He finds his new maybe-girlfriend Bertha irresistible, but unfortunately she comes with a six-foot-something bouncer husband who hits her for fun. He writes novels that Bertha finds boring - actually, a lot of ...

From HEATHER THOMPSON, Guardian Unlimited,  22 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Germaine Greer

Review: Milton by Anna Beer

Whether composing a contentious celebration of free speech or defence of divorce, a poem in reserved praise of Oliver Cromwell or Paradise Lost, John Milton was always very much a man of his times. From the loquacious virtuosity of his youth to his ...

From HEATHER THOMPSON, Guardian Unlimited,  22 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Oliver Cromwell,  John Milton,  Burt Lancaster

Review: Kristallnacht by Martin Gilbert

After a night and day that saw thousands of synagogues and shops destroyed, a quarter of the Jewish male population in Germany deported and the rest 'hunted like rats in their homes', Lore Pels's father still refused to take the golden ticket of freedom ...

From HEATHER THOMPSON, Guardian Unlimited,  22 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Martin Gilbert

Review: Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani

Review: Remembering the Bones by Frances ItaniFrances Itani doles out lucidity, empathy and poetry in crackling equal measures, writes Heather ...

From HEATHER THOMPSON, Guardian Unlimited,  25 Oct 2008

Review: From Anger to Apathy by Mark Garnett

Review: From Anger to Apathy by Mark GarnettGarnett's caustic history takes no prisoners, says Heather ...

From HEATHER THOMPSON, Guardian Unlimited,  25 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Denis MacShane,  Tony Blair,  Jonathan Powell,  Committee to Protect Journalists

Review: Edward Burra - Twentieth-Century Eye by Jane Stevenson

Review: Edward Burra - Twentieth-Century Eye by Jane StevensonThis book is a fascinating, eccentric look at a fascinating eccentric, says Heather ...

From HEATHER THOMPSON, Guardian Unlimited,  25 Oct 2008

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