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Oh, the " Giddy Carousel of Pop "! Mark Ellen's amusing and nostalgic memoir brought back many happy music-based memories: Dad...

Perhaps it's a little unfair to award Orwell's collection of 50 essays a mere three out of five stars. Some of the essays are brilli...

The Truants begins on a park bench. As dawn approaches, a vampire who has been alive since pre-history, is waiting to end his life. A teena...

Henry Farrell's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? opens in 1908 with the famous child star having a tantrum in public. " What's...

" She might have been waiting for her lover. " So opens Graham Greene's book, England Made Me , in a railway station cafe, whe...

I used to imagine Hell as a Sisyphean search for friends in a packed, Covent Garden Piano & Pitcher bar on a Friday night. In The Balla...

" Inventing a universe is tough work, " confesses Ursula Le Guin in the Foreword to this collection of short stories. Reading abou...