Recently added articles from The Independent on Sunday (London, England):
Repeat ad infinitum
Nov 01, 2009; ... Fiction When John Irving's novels are this exceptional, he canreturn to his favourite tropes as often as he likes Last Night inTwisted River By John Irving Bloomsbury Pounds 20 Repetition, repetition, repetition: there are those critics whohave long implied that John Irving - with ...
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Nov 01, 2009 ... Audio book by Stieg Larsson, read by Martin Wenner (Quercus audiobooks,16.98) The brilliant young maverick investigator Lisbeth Salander spendshalf of this book immobile in a hospital bed. Shot three times, oncein the head, and buried in a shallow grave, she has somehow ...
'Hi, I'm Will, I'm a pop star, and I'm not very confident'
Nov 01, 2009; ... On 'Pop Idol', he fought Simon Cowell - and won. On the slipperyslopes of the record industry, he kept his feet and triumphed withfour platinum albums. On stage, he was lauded for playing Coward. Onscreen, he shone alongside Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins. And on'Question Time', he ...
Well, who would have thought it?
Nov 01, 2009; ... Essays A 'New Yorker' stalwart in counterintuitive mood What theDog Saw By Malcolm Gladwell Allen Lane Pounds 20 The first "adventure" in What the Dog Saw, a selection of MalcolmGladwell's articles and essays from his 13 years as a staff writeron The New Yorker, is that of Ron ...
Confession of a sports virgin
Nov 01, 2009; ... Memoir How comma queen Lynne Truss met her match Get Her Off thePitch! By Lynne Truss Fourth Estate Pounds 12.99 Lynne Truss is best known as the nation's punctuation tsar thanksto Eats, Shoots and Leaves, but before she set out in search ofcrackpot commas, she spent four years ...