Saturday, 31 May 2008

"In the Shadow of the Moon"

The DVD of "In The Shadow Of The Moon [2007]" is available from Amazon for the price of £9.98 (which is a 50% discount on the RRP of £19.99). Click on the blue link to directly to the correct page at Amazon where you can read more and buy the DVD if that's what you want to do.

The book In the Shadow of the Moon: which covers the Space programme from 1965-1969 is currently available for £15.19, which means it is eligible for free delivery with Amazon's Super Saver Delivery option. (You may be able to get it cheaper in the New and Used Section. Again - click on the blue link to go to the correct page at Amazon.

The authors', Burgess and French, first book Into That Silent Sea is also still available from Amazon

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PS. Is Space a proper noun?


"A Man on the Moon" by Andrew Chaikin.

The book "A Man on the Moon. The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts" by Andrew Chaikin is available from Amazon for £8.99 (which is a 40% discount on the RRP of £12.99).

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I've read this book and I agree with the comments at Amazon - it really is a quite brilliant book. There is something about the book's tone that captures the imagination. It avoids hyperbole and instead, because the focus is on the details of what happened, you get drawn into the extraordinary adventure that these men experienced. This book makes it clear that what these men achieved is right at the very limits of human experience and achievement.

'Tis a really really great book.

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"The Eye of the Leopard" by Henning Mankell

The novel "The Eye of the Leopard" by Henning Mankell is available form Amazon for £9.09 which is a 30% discount on the RRP of £12.99.

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"Attachment" by Isabel Fonseca

The novel "Attachment" by Isobel Fonesca is currently available from Amazon for £11.19 which is a 30% saving on the RRP.

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"The Pain and The Privilege" by Ffion Hague

The book "The Pain and the Privilege. The Women in Lloyd George's life" by Ffion Hague is currently available for Amazon for £17.50 which is a 30% discount.

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"Penguin History Of Modern China" by Jonathan Fenby

The book "The Penguin History of Modern China" by Jonathan Fenby is available from Amazon for £21 (which is a 30% saving on the RRP of £30).

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Thursday, 29 May 2008

Medieval Lives. Terry Jones

The book "Medieval Lives" by Terry Jones is available from Amazon for £5.99 (which is a 25% discount on the RRP of £7.99).

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Wednesday, 28 May 2008

"The New Paradigm for Financial Markets" by George Soros

The book "The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means" by George Soros is available from Amazon for £9.09 (which is a saving of 30% on its R.R.P. of £12.99)

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"Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym"

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"Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak" by Jim Riordan

The book "Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak" by Jim Riordan is available from Amazon for £10.49 (which is a saving of 30% from the cover price of £14.99).

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Monday, 26 May 2008

"Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs" by Helen Rappaport

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"The Atlantic Ocean" Essays on Britain and America by Andrew O'Hagan

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"Bearded Tit" A memoir by Rory McGrath

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Sunday, 25 May 2008

"The Trillion Dollar Meltdown" by Charles Morris

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The Lark Ascending. Ralph Vaughan Williams

I guess it's all subjective but there are two versions of this piece of music that manage to really turn me inside out.

The first features Hilary Hahn on violin and is on the CD Elgar - Violin Concerto; Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending [SACD]

The second is Vaughan Williams: Tallia Fantasia; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending etc. which, as the title suggest, has the added bonus of also having "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" and "Fantasia on Greensleeves"

(If I had to choose I would go with the second)

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"Grace After Midnight" by Felicia Pearson

The book "Grace After Midnight" by Felicia Pearson ("Snoop" Pearson in "The Wire) is available from Amazon for £9.09 which is a 30% discount.

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Saturday, 24 May 2008

"O Lucky Man" directed by Lindsay Anderson

The DVD "O Lucky Man" with Malcolm McDowell, directed by Lindsay Anderson has finally been released. You can buy the DVD from Amazon for £9.98 which is a 38% discount.

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"West Coast" by Kate Muir

The novel "West Coast" by Kate Muir is available from Amazon for the price of £10.19 which is a discount of 40%.

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"The Lighted Room" by Richard Mason

The novel "The Lighted Room" by Richard Mason is available at Amazon for £7.79 which is a 40% discount.

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"The Lost Dog" by Michelle de Krester

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Vaughan Williams: The Collectors Edition

The box set "Vaughan Williams: The Collectors Edition" contains all the major orchestral,vocal, chamber and stage works, as well as many lesser pieces. (See below for a full list)
It is available from Amazon for £40.98 and qualifies for free delivery if you choose the Super Saver Delivery option.

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If you are specifically after "The Lark Ascending" then click here to read which two versions I would recommend.

Irritatingly Amazon do not include a full track listing for the box set so I've included it here (I hope there are no mistakes in it)

Symphony No.1 'A Sea Symphony'.
Symphony No.2 'London Symphony'.
Symphony No.8 in D minor.
Symphony No.3 'Pastoral Symphony'.
Symphony No.4 in F minor.
Oboe Concerto in A minor.
Symphony No.5 in D.
Symphony No.6 in E minor.
Symphony No.9 in E minor.
Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica'.
The Wasps Suite.
Prelude & Fugue in C minor.
Piano Concerto in C.
Piano Concerto in C for two pianos.
Job.
Serenade to Music - original version with 16 soloists. London Symphony Orchestra / Adrian Boult - English Folk Songs - Suite (orch. Gordon Jacob) : March - Seventeen Come Sunday / Intermezzo - My Bonny Boy / March - Folk Songs from Somerset.
Norfolk Rhapsody No.1.
Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'.
In the Fen Country.
The Lark Ascending.
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
Sea Songs - March military band.
English Folk Songs - Suite : March - Seventeen Come Sunday / Intermezzo - My Bonny Boy / March - Folk Songs from Somerset.
Dawn Patrol from the film Coastal Command.
Romance in D flat for harmonica with strings and pianoforte.
Tuba Concerto in F minor.
Serenade to Music - orchestral version.
The Poisoned Kiss : Overture.
Old King Cole - A Ballet for Orchestra.
Five Mystical Songs.
Prelude on an Old Carol Tune.
The Running Set.
Prelude: 49th Parallel.
Sea Songs : March - symphony orchestral.
Variations for Brass Band
Two Hymn-Tune Preludes.
Concerto accademico for violin and orchestra in D minor.
Three Preludes Founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes.
String Quartet No.1.
Violin Sonata in A minor.
Phantasy Quintet.
Six Studies in English Folk-Song.
String Quartet No.2 in A minor For Jean on her Birthday.
Toward the Unknown Region.
Dona nobis pacem.
Magnificat.
An Oxford Elegy.
Flos campi.
Whitsunday Hymn.
Sancta Civitas.
Five Tudor Portraits.
Benedicite.
Five variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'.
Fantasia on Christmas Carols.
Hodie A Christmas Cantata.
Fantasia on Christmas Carols
In Windsor Forest.
Songs of travel.
On Wenlock Edge.
O clap your hands.
Mass in G minor.
All people that on earth do dwell - Old Hundredth.
O taste and see.
Te Deum in G.
For all the saints - Sine nomine.
Three Preludes Founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes.
Four Hymns.
Merciless Beauty.
Ten Blake Songs.
On Wenlock Edge.
The House of Life.
Songs of Travel.
A Dorset song.
Joy Shipmate Joy!.
A Clear Midnight.
Orpheus with his lute - first setting.
Hands Eyes and Heart.
Rest.
Five Mystical Songs.
Five English Folk Songs.
Bushes and Briars.
Loch Lomond.
John Dory.
Greensleeves.
Ward the Pirate.
Ca' the Yowes.
The Unquiet Grave.
The Seeds of Love.
Early in the Spring.
The Turtle Dove.
An Acre of Land.
The Captain's Apprentice.
As I walked out.
Geordie.
On Board a Ninety-Eight.
The Ploughman.
The Brewer.
Rolling in the Dew.
The Truth Sent from Above.
Joseph and Mary.
The Saviour's Love.
Reveillez-vous Piccars.
Chanson de quete.
Ballade de Jesus Christ.
She's like the swallow.
The Morning Dew.
The Maiden's Lament.
The Cuckoo.
The Lawyer.
Searching for Lambs.
How cold the wind doth blow or The Unquiet Grave.
A Song of Thanksgiving.
Epithalamion.
Riders to the Sea.
Hugh the Drover or Love in the Stocks.
Pilgrim’s Progress & rehearsal sequence

"The Murder Farm" by Andrea Maria Schenkel.

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"Armageddon in Retrospect" by Kurt Vonnegut

The book "Armageddon in Retrospect" by Kurt Vonnegut is available from Amazon for £11.42 which is a 10% discount. (It may also be currently cheaper in Amazon's New and Used section)

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"Quiet Please. Dispatches From A Public Librarian" by Scott Douglas

The book "Quiet Please. Dispatches From A Public Librarian" by Scott Douglas is available at Amazon for £14.24 which is a 5% discount. It is available for less than that in Amazon's New And Used section

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"Charles Fort" by Jim Steinmeyer

The book "Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural" by Jim Steinmeyer is available from Amazon for £11.89 which is a 30% discount on the RRP.

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"Devil May Care" by Sebastian Faulks

The book "Devil May Care", a new James Bond novel by Sebastian Faulks is available from Amazon for the price of £9.99 which is a 23% discount.

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Schoenberg: Violin Concerto and Sibelius: Violin Concerto op.47 performed By Hilary Hahn

The CD "Schoenberg: Violin Concerto and Sibelius: Violin Concerto op.47" performed by Hilary Hahn with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is available from Amazon for £11.99. (You will find it cheaper than that in Amazon's "New and Used" section)

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Mahler - Symphony No 6 . Conducted by Valery Gergiev

The Hybrid SACD "Mahler - Symphony No 6" played by the London Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Valery Gergiev is available from Amazon for £7.99.

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"Cloud Book" by Richard Hamblyn

"Cloud Book: How to Understand the Skies" by Richard Hamblyn is available from Amazon for £6.99 which is a 30% discount.

Amazon also have "The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies" by Richard Hamblyn for £5.99 - though it is a lot cheaper in their New and Used Section.

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"Crow Country" by Mark Cocker

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Thursday, 22 May 2008

"Flat Earth News" by Nick Davies

The book "Flat Earth News" by Nick Davies is available from Amazon for £10.69 which is a 41% discount.

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"Works Of Igor Stravinsky"

"The Works of Igor Stravinsky", a 22 CD box set is available from Amazon for £17.99 with free delivery if you choose the Super Saver Delivery option.

This is an extraordinary low price for this definitive collection of Stravinsky's work and you can read more about it, including some enthusiastic reviews, by clicking on the link below which will take you to the right page at Amazon.



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La Bohéme. Puccini with Netrebeko and Villazon

The CD of Puccini's La Bohéme with Anna Netrebko as Mimi and Rolando Villazon as Rodolfo is available from Amazon for £17.99 and is available for free delivery if you choose the Super Saver Delivery option.

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"Child 44" Tim Rob Smith

The novel "Child 44" by Tim Rob Smith is available from Amazon for £6.93 which is a saving of 47%.

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Wednesday, 21 May 2008

"An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage"

You can get the book "An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage" by Malcolm Macmillan from Amazon for £18 which is a 5% discount. It is also eligible for free delivery with Super Saver Delivery.

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"Shadow of Death". A Sister Agnes mystery by Alison Joseph

Shadow of Death (Sister Agnes) is the latest book in the Sister Agnes series by Alison Joseph. It has been adapted as "Sister Agnes Investigates" on Radio 4. You can buy it from Amazon for £5.49 which is a 21% discount by clicking on the blue link.

Amazon also has previous books from the sister Agnes series in their New and Used Section. Prices vary greatly but some are available for a penny. Again you'll need to click on the blue link to go directly to the right page where you can read more and order them if you want.

Sacred Hearts (A Sister Agnes Mystery)
The Hour of Our Death (A Sister Agnes Mystery)
The Quick and the Dead (A Sister Agnes Mystery)
A Dark and Sinful Death (A Sister Agnes Mystery)
The Dying Light (A Sister Agnes Mystery)
The Night Watch (A Sister Agnes Mystery)
Darkening Sky (A Sister Agnes Mystery)

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"I Will Need to Break Your Other Leg" Prasanna Gautam

I Will Need to Break Your Other Leg: Tales of Medical Adventure and Misadventure by Prasanna Gautam is available from Amazon for £6.99 which is a 30% discount.

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"Criminal' Caspar Walsh

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Monday, 19 May 2008

"The Wisdom of Whores" by Elizabeth Pisani

The book "The Wisdom of Whores" by Elizabeth Pisani is available from Amazon for £8.99 which is a 50% discount.

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Sunday, 18 May 2008

"Chant. Music For Paradise"

"Chant. Music For Paradise" by The Cistercian Monks Of Stift Heiligenkreuz is available from Amazon for £6.97.

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"Up Till Now. The Autobiography" William Shatner

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"The Library At Night" by Alberto Manguel

The book "The Library At Night" by Alberto Manguel is available from Amazon for £18.99 and comes with free delivery if you selct Amazon's Super Saver Delivery option.

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"Fatal Misconception" by Matthew Connelly

"Fatal Misconception" by Matthew Connelly is available from Amazon for £24.65 (a 5% discount). It is eligible for free delivery with the Super Saver Delivery option.

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"The Kingdom Of Infinite Space" Raymond Tallis

"The Kingdom Of Infinite Space" - A Fantastical Journey Around Your Head by Raymond Tallis is available from Amazon for the price of £12.99 which is a discount of 35%.

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Saturday, 17 May 2008

"Pilgrim State" by Jaqueline Walker

The book "Pilgrim State" by Jaqueline Walker is available from Amazon for £10.49 which is a discount of 30%.

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"Halfway To Venus" by Sarah Anderson

"Halfway To Venus" by Sarah Anderson is available from Amazon for £8.44 which is a 35% discount.

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"Torture Team" by Philippe Sands

"Torture Team: Deception, Cruelty and the Compromise of Law" by Philippe Sands is available from Amazon for £14.99 which is a 25% discount.

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"ID: The Quest for Identity" by Susan Greenfield

"ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century" by Susan Greenfield is available from Amazon for £12.99 which is a discount of 24%.

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James Bond Novels By Ian Fleming

There are many different editions of the James Bond novels available but Amazon have this complete series from Penguin available - each edition being under £6

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Casino Royale (Penguin Viking Lit Fiction) 1953
Live and Let Die (Penguin Viking Lit Fiction)1954
Moonraker (Penguin Viking Lit Fiction) 1955
Diamonds Are Forever (Penguin Viking Lit Fiction) 1956
From Russia with Love (Penguin Viking Lit Fiction)1957
Dr No (Penguin Viking Lit Fiction) 1958
Goldfinger (Penguin Viking Lit Fiction) 1959
For Your Eyes Only (Penguin Viking Lit Fiction) 1960
Thunderball (Penguin Viking Lit Fiction) 1961
The Spy Who Loved Me (Penguin Viking Lit Fiction) 1962
On Her Majesty's Secret Service1963
You Only Live Twice 1964
The Man with the Golden Gun (Penguin Viking Lit Fiction) 1965
Octopussy: AND The Living Daylights (Penguin Viking Lit Fiction) 1966

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Friday, 16 May 2008

Novel About My Wife. Emily Perkins.

The book "Novel About My Wife" by Emily Perkins is available from Amazon at the price of £9.99 which is a discount of 23% on the RRP.

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"Russia". Jonathan Dimbleby

The book "Russia: A Journey to the Heart of a Land and Its People" by Jonathan Dimbleby is available from Amazon for the price of £17.49 which is a 30% discount.

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William McGonagall Collected Poems

"William McGonagall Collected Poems" is available at Amazon for the price of £8.99 which is a discount of 30%.

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Sea of Poppies. Amitav Ghosh

The book "Sea Of Poppies" by Amitav Ghosh is available from Amazon for £11.39 which is a 40% discount. Click on the link below to go to Amazon where you can read more about the book and buy it if you want to.

A History Of Modern Britain. Andrew Marr.

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Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Standard Operating Procedure Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris

"Standard Operating Procedure" by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris is available from Amazon for the price of $17.13 which is a 34% discount.

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The Boat Nam Le

"The Boat" by Nam Le is available from Amazon.com for $15.38 which is a 33% price reduction.
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Francesco's Venice Francesco da Mosto

The book "Francesco's Venice" by Francesco da Mosto is available from Amazon for the price of £8.98 which is a 55% reduction.

The DVD of the series is available from Amazon for £6.98 which is a 65% discount.

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The Wild Boy of Aveyron by Harlan Lane

The following three books:
"The Wild Boy of Aveyron" by Harlan Lane,
"Savage Girls and Wild Boys" by Michael Newton
"Encounters with Wild Children" by Adriana Benzaquen
and the DVD
"The Wild Child" by Francois Truffaut
are available from Amazon - click on the links below to go to Amazon where you can read more and buy them if you want to.



Becoming Drusilla by Richard Beard

The Book Becoming Drusilla: One Life, Two Friends, Three Genders by Richard Beard is available from Amazon for £9.09 which is a 30% discount. To go to Amazon click on the link below where you can find out more about the book and buy it if you want to.

"Bambi And Me" Johnny Kingdom

The book "Bambi And Me" by Johnny Kingdom is available from Amazon for the price of £9.09 which is a 30% discount.

Click on the link below to go directly to the correct page at Amazon where you can read more and where you can buy it if you feel like it.



Please note that whilst the information above is correct at the time of writing price and availability do sometimes change at Amazon.

Tuesday, 13 May 2008

"Speaking For Myself" Cherie Blair

The book "Speaking For Myself" Cherie Blair's autobiography is available from Amazon for £12.34 which is a 35% discount on the RRP.

Click on the link below to go to Amazon to read more about the book and order it if you want to.



Please note that the information above is correct at the time of writing but that price and availability do sometimes change at Amazon

The Damned United David Peace

After his appearance on the South Bank Show there has been a lot of interest in David Peace's quite brilliant The Damned Utd. (Which you can buy from Amazon by clicking on the link below)



I would also recommend his other books: (each link goes to Amazon)

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Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy 1)
Nineteen Seventy Four (Red Riding Quartet)
Nineteen Seventy Seven (Red Riding Quartet)
Nineteen Eighty (Red Riding Quartet)
Nineteen Eighty Three (Five Star)

As well as recommending all of David Peace's work I also recommend "Provided You Don't Kiss me" by Duncan Hamilton - which like The Damned Utd is about Brian Clough. It's a non - fiction work and is similar to Peace's book in that it portrays Clough as a genius, but it is a genius that is constantly tempered with a rather bleak desperation.

It has a brilliant opening description of football, of workman like performances in dull matches on muddy pitches that I would love to see Sky Sports use in their promotional campaign for next season. Instead of showing us Ronaldo skipping through defences they should lead on Titus Bramble falling over in the mud. But I imagine they won't, they'll continue to try to sell us football as shiny and breathtaking as is their wont.




The Jennings Books. Anthony Buckeridge

Here is a list of all of the Jennings Books by Anthony Buckeridge.
Clicking on the title will take you to the Amazon page for that book. As I write this Amazon have most of the early books in stock but you will have to look in Amazon's New and Used Section (which you can find on the same page) to find some of the other books in the series. (Some of the rare ones can be rather expensive so if they are the books that you after then it may be worth looking at E-Bay).

1. Jennings Goes to School. 1950
2. Jennings Follows a Clue 1951
3. Jennings' Little Hut (Jennings) (Jennings) 1951
4. Jennings and Darbishire 1952
5. Jennings' Diary (Jennings) (Jennings) 1953
6. According to Jennings1954
7. Our Friend Jennings 1955
8. Thanks to Jennings 1957
9. Take Jennings for Instance1958
10. Jennings as Usual 1959
11. Trouble with Jennings (Armada S) 1960
12. Just Like Jennings (Jennings books / Anthony Buckeridge)1961
13. Leave it to Jennings ... Illustrated by Mays 1963
14. Jennings, of Course (Jennings) 1964
15. Especially Jennings 1965
16. A Bookful of Jennings 1966
17.Jennings Abounding! (Acting Edition) 1967
(also titled 'Jennings Unlimited (Jennings)')
18. Jennings in Particular 1968
19. Trust Jennings 1969
20. The Jennings Report (JENNINGS) 1970
21. Typically Jennings 1971
22. Speaking of Jennings 1973
23. Jennings at Large (Jennings) 1977
24. Jennings Again! 1991
25. That's Jennings 1994