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Everyone Loves you When You’re Dead, by Neil Strauss
Join Neil Strauss as he: – Makes Lady Gaga cry – Tries to keep Motley Crue out of jail – Gets kidnapped by Courtney Love – Goes to church with Tom Cruise (and his mother) – Reads the mind of Britney Spears – Hunts down Jackie Chan – Gets picked on by Led Zeppelin – Buys nappies with Snoop Dogg – Goes drinking with Bruce Springsteen, dining with Gwen Stefani and hot-tubbing with Marilyn Manson – Talks glam with David Bowie, drugs with Madonna, death with Johnny Cash and sex with Chuck Berry – Gets molested by The Strokes, gets in trouble with Prince and gets Christina Aguilera into bed Also features exclusive UK heavyweight champions Steve Coogan, Noel Fielding, Russell Brand and more …
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On the State of Egypt, by Alaa Aswamy
On 25 January 2011, bestselling Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany joined a million protestors in Tahrir Square calling for President Hosni Mubarak’s departure. This was the moment he and other pro-democracy activists had been working towards, but could never be sure would come. Why did Egypt unexpectedly revolt? In a weekly newspaper column Al Aswany had been exposing the injustices of the Mubarak regime for years, arguing that ‘democracy is the solution’. Here the most incisive, prescient and urgent of these pieces are gathered together in English for the first time. He examines the conditions that made Egypt ripe for revolution, from Mubarak’s monopoly on power and his determination to install his son as his successor, to the poverty in which half the population live. He also writes passionately about Egyptian society generally, including the treatment of women, free speech and the role of the State police. On the State of Egypt is a brilliant and devastating critique of Mubarak’s rule, and an inspiring portrait of a people’s determination to rise up and make their voices heard.
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To the River, by by Olivia Laing
To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf’s river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape – and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love. Along the way, Laing explores the roles rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature and mythology alike. To the River excavates all sorts of stories from the Ouse’s marshy banks, from the brutal Barons’ War of the thirteenth century to the ‘Dinosaur Hunters’, the nineteenth-century amateur naturalists who first cracked the fossil code. Central among these ghosts is, of course, Virginia Woolf herself: her life, her writing and her watery death. Woolf is the most constant companion on Laing’s journey, and To the River can be read in part as a biography of this extraordinary English writer, refracted back through the river she loved. But other writers float through these pages too – among them Iris Murdoch, Shakespeare, Homer and Kenneth Grahame, author of the riverside classic The Wind in the Willows. The result is a wonderfully discursive read – which interweaves biography, history, nature writing and memoir, driven by Laing’s deep understanding of science and cultural history. It’s a beautiful, lyrical work that marks the arrival of a major new writer.
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May 27th, 2011 at 9:56 am
pleasee be me!
May 27th, 2011 at 2:09 pm
cant wait to read my bundle!!