Irish Hong Kong PromsIF you happen to be passing through Dublin Airport this morning, you may notice a group of vivacious - if slightly bedraggled…Tue Aug 13 1996 - 01:00
The Vampyre: The Secret History of Lord Byron, by Tom Holland (Warner, £5.99 in UK)It was inevitable, I suppose, that the runaway success of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles would produce a host of imitatorsSat Aug 10 1996 - 01:00
Memnoch the Devil, by Anne Rice (Arrow, £5.99 in UK)The fifth of the Vampire Chronicles, Memnoch the Devil opens with the vampire Lestat up to his old tricks in New York - stalking…Sat Aug 10 1996 - 01:00
Collected Stories, by Alan Sillitoe (Flamingo, £7.99 in UK)This volume contains a generous helping of Sillitoe's writing, with selections ranging from the early Loneliness of the Long …Sat Aug 10 1996 - 01:00
Under the Durian Tree, by Fergus Linehan (Pan, £5.99 in UK)Fergus Linehan's tale of life lived and love lost in Malaya during the twilight of British rule there contrasts the vivid colours…Sat Aug 03 1996 - 01:00
Streets Ahead, by Keith. Waterhouse (Sceptre, £6.99 in UK)Keith Waterhouse is a very funny writer, and this second volume of autobiography takes up where the first, City Lights, left …Sat Aug 03 1996 - 01:00
Eveless Eden, by Marianne Wiggins (Flamingo, £5.99 in UK)A great many journalists would give their eye teeth, if they had any, to have written this novelSat Aug 03 1996 - 01:00
Another serving of Rice, minus vampiresANNE RICE sells so many books that she is not so much a writer as a publishing phenomenon.Fri Aug 02 1996 - 01:00
Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir, by Margaret Forster (Penguin, £6.99 in UK)In this elegant biographical study of her grandmother, her mother and herself, Margaret Forster traces her family's emergence…Sat Jul 27 1996 - 01:00
Unkindest Cut, by Joe Queenan (Picador, £6.99 in UK)Robert Rodriguez has a lot to answer forSat Jul 27 1996 - 01:00
OOH, AH, OP-PERA!YOU may have heard of horse opera but you ain't seen nothin' like this, pardner, no sireeFri Jul 26 1996 - 01:00
Sky, by Deirdre Purcell (Town House, £5.99)Her fifth novel sees Deirdre Purcell journeying further and further from the family sagas with which she began her fiction writing…Sat Jul 20 1996 - 01:00
The Pillars of Hercules a Grand Tour of the Mediterranean, by Paul Theroux (Penguin, £6.99 in UK)From high rise horror on the Spanish coast to the uncertainties and tensions of war torn Croatia, from giddy Tunisian teenagers…Sat Jul 13 1996 - 01:00
A headlong rush at lifeYou don't so much read this rambunctious memoir as get sucked, with much slurping and licking of lips, into it rude, crude and…Sat Jul 13 1996 - 01:00
Dylan Behind Closed Doors (The Recording Sessions 1960-1994), by Clinton Heylin (Penguin, £11.00 in UK)"On a deeper level the songs operate in context, as a series of parables in ballad form..."Sat Jul 13 1996 - 01:00
Anais Nin A Biography, by Deirdre Bair (Bloomsbury, £9.99 in UK)I honestly thought I was bored to death with Anal's Nin after the appearance of umpteen volumes of her diaries, but Deirdre Bair…Sat Jul 13 1996 - 01:00
Rose Madder, by Stephen King (New English Library, £6.99 in UK)Rose, a woman who has been brutally abused by her husband for 14 years, decides, one day, to leave him while she busies herself…Sat Jul 13 1996 - 01:00
Done Deal, by Les Standiford (Pan, £5.99 in UK)Les Standiford is one of the extremely trendy clique of south Florida crime writers which is headed by Karl Hiaasen, and his …Sat Jul 13 1996 - 01:00
The god of ecstasy in an Edinburgh pubThe Acid House, by Irvine Welsh, read by the author (Random House, 2 tapes, 3 hrs, £8.99 in UK)Sat Jul 13 1996 - 01:00
My Life, by Isadora Duncan (Gollancz, £8.99 in UK)Certain individuals often, though not always, of course, artists lead lives of such jaw dropping intensity that their autobiographies…Sat Jul 13 1996 - 01:00
Hood, by Emma Donoghue (Penguin, in UK)Take one clever idea to trace a week in the life of a woman whose young lesbian lover has just been killed in a car crash - execute…Tue Jul 09 1996 - 01:00
Ted Turner: It Ain't as Easy as It Looks: The Amazing Story of CNN, by Porter Bibb (Virgin, £9.99 in UK)Once you get over gawping in disbelief at the title and the name of the author, this proves to be a rather wordy biography of…Tue Jul 09 1996 - 01:00
The Horse Whisperer, by Nicholas Evans (Corgi, £599 in UK)Reading the cover blurb, and knowing quite well that this book has sold zillions of copies in hardback (well, two million, to…Tue Jul 09 1996 - 01:00
The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction, edited by Maxim Jakubowski (Robinson, £6.99 in UK)On the face of it, this book does everything rightTue Jul 09 1996 - 01:00
The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction, edited by Maxim Jakubowski (Robinson, £6.99 in UK)On the face of it, this book does everything rightSat Jul 06 1996 - 01:00
Ted Turner: It Ain't as Easy as It Looks: The Amazing Story of CNN, by Porter Bibb (Virgin, £9.99 in UK)Once you get over gawping in disbelief at the title and the name of the author, this proves to be a rather wordy biography of…Sat Jul 06 1996 - 01:00
The Horse Whisperer, by Nicholas Evans (Corgi, £599 in UK)Reading the cover blurb, and knowing quite well that this book has sold zillions of copies in hardback (well, two million, to…Sat Jul 06 1996 - 01:00
Hood, by Emma Donoghue (Penguin, in UK)Take one clever idea to trace a week in the life of a woman whose young lesbian lover has just been killed in a car crash - execute…Sat Jul 06 1996 - 01:00
Michael Redgrave, My Father, by Corin Redgrave (Fourth Estate, £6.99 in UK)Which of us could write two hundred pages of lucid, affectionate and occasionally exasperated prose on the subject of our father…Sat Jun 29 1996 - 01:00
Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of The Beatles, by Mark Hertsgaard (Pan, £6.99 in UK)"A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of The Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart," Paul McCartney famously…Sat Jun 22 1996 - 01:00
Creating their own suite mysterySINCE music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical…Wed Jun 19 1996 - 01:00
The versatility of vampiresVAMPIRES. They just won't lie down, will they? On the contrary, of all the fevered imaginings which have haunted the pages of…Wed Jun 19 1996 - 01:00
An Experiment in Love, by Hilary Mantel (Penguin, £5.99 in UK)The heady horrors of young adulthood can rarely have been captured with such bittersweet poignancy as in this little gem of a…Sat Jun 15 1996 - 01:00
That Blooming Day!PARDON the pun, and let's hope James Joyce isn't reading this over anybody's shoulder, but Bloomsday has really blossomed of …Sat Jun 15 1996 - 01:00
Cheap Lives, by Antony Sher (Abacus, £6.99 in UK)If an epistolary novel is well done, it packs an extraordinarily powerful punchSat Jun 15 1996 - 01:00
Seated next week at the organPICTURE this. The conductor raises his baton and the voices soar to the roof of cathedral, if not straight to heavenWed Jun 12 1996 - 01:00
Homebush Boy: A Memoir, by Thomas Keneally (Sceptre, £5.99 in UK)"I was," says Thomas Keneally of his teenage sell, which slouched towards adulthood in a small Australian town in the 1950s, "…Sat Jun 08 1996 - 01:00
The guns of BrixtonTELEVISION drama has come a long way since the days when a couple of cameras were shoved into the same room as a small scale …Sat Jun 08 1996 - 01:00
Out on a Limb, by Heather Mills (Warner Books, £5.99 in UK)The need to have a leg amputated just below the knee would be a pretty devastating blow for most people; the basic premise of…Sat Jun 01 1996 - 01:00
Lizard, by Banana Yoshimoto (Faber & Faber, £5.99 in UK)A young husband sits on a commuter train, transmogrified by alcohol; a young doctor finds in an eccentric acupuncturist both …Sat Jun 01 1996 - 01:00
Heart's Journey in Winter, by James Buchan (Panther, £6.99 in UK)Does anybody really understand spy novels? I mean really understand, as opposed to being intimidated into admiration by incomprehensible…Sat Jun 01 1996 - 01:00
BOW BELLETHERE is, to the untutored eye, something miraculous about the violin virtuosoFri May 31 1996 - 01:00
So Far, So Good, by Paul Eddington (Coronet, £6.99 in UK)Paul Eddington (of course you know who he is - remember Jerry in The Good Life and Jim Hacker in Yes, Prime Minister?) is by …Sat May 25 1996 - 01:00
Gorleston by Henry Sutton (Sceptre, £5.99 in UK)Most of us have been brought up to believe that old age, despite its unquestioned drawbacks, at least brings lashings of good…Sat May 25 1996 - 01:00
Sambas at the crossroadsWHILE they may be familiar to those who follow the fortunes of the Brazilian national football team, it's probably fair to say…Thu May 23 1996 - 01:00
She Fades Away, by Michael Carroll (Poolbeg, £3.99)Ghosts, grandads and awful jokes; Michael Carroll is apparently a writer of fantasy fiction but this is more of a high class …Sat May 18 1996 - 01:00
It takes Tango to make twoHaving a baby is not an end but a beginning, as teenagers - Crystal and Tango discover. when Baby D arrivesSat May 18 1996 - 01:00
Different Lives, by Jane Mitchell (Poolbeg £3.99)Why do teenagers drop out of the school/university/job path laid out so painstakingly, and often painfully, by their parents? …Sat May 18 1996 - 01:00
