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It’s Only a Movie – Book Review

• January 13, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in America, book reviews, Cinema, New Orleans
Tags: Angelina Jolie, autobiography, Ben Dupre, Brain in a vat, cinema, critics, film, gallerist, Jonathan Ross, Mark Kermode, movies, New Orleans, Nick Bostrom, philosophy, Radio, Simon Mayo, Treme, Ultimate Film, Werner Herzog

On Radio Five Live in Support of Harry Potter

• October 18, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in book reviews, Harry Potter, Other people's books, Virtual Bookshelf
Tags: AA Road Atlas, Dotun Adebayo, Hephzibah Anderson, JK Rowling, Jo Rowling

The Man Booker Prize Readings at the Royal Festival Hall

• October 10, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Authors, book reviews, Book signings, Previews, Prizes, Publishing Industry
Tags: Andrea Levy, C, Damon Galgut, Emma Donoghue, Howard Jacobson, In a Strange Room, literary prizes, Orange Prize, Oscar and Lucinda, Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey, RFH, Room, Small Island, The Finkler Question, The Long Song, Tom McCarthy, True History of the Kelly Gang

Dotun Adebayo’s Virtual Bookshelf

• September 12, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in book reviews, Other people's books, Publishing Industry, Virtual Bookshelf
Tags: Hephzibah Anderson, Radio Five Live, Travis Elborough, Up All Night

The Universe: The Big Questions

• September 11, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in book reviews, Science, space
Tags: Alcubierre Drive, Cygnus X1, ESA, first stars, Hubble, Hubble Ultradeep Field, Planck Telescope, Quercus, relativity, Rush, Stuart Clark, time travel

The Sun Kings

• December 6, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in book reviews, Other people's books, Science, Sun
Tags: astronomy, astrophysics, Cambridge, mathematics, Plus Magazine, Stephen Hawking, Stuart Clark, The Sun Kings

Johnny Mackintosh flies into The Sun

• January 26, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in book reviews, Johnny Mackintosh, Publishing Industry
Tags: Alastair Campbell, book reviews, John Major, Johnny Mackintosh, Natasha Harding, Rupert Murdoch, Something for the Weekend, The Sun, Tony Blair