Article: Monday books: Working with crystal; Crystals - What They Are and How to Use Them by Neil Irwin(Thorson. pounds 5.99).(Features)

Article: Monday books: Hold your tongue, language under ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  December 18, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Byline: DAPHNE ABERNETHY AUTHOR David Crystal looks at present and future threats to ... linguistics or indigenous cultural survival. Crystal begins by looking at the scale of the ... should we even care about language death? Crystal presents five arguments: from the general ...

Article: Book review: The urban underbelly beyond the Crystal ...
The Independent - London;  August 6, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... levels of international co-operation": all of these converged to ensure that the exhibition housed in Paxton's magnificent Crystal Palace in Hyde Park captured the imagination of the nation and the world between May and November 1851. Such success could ...

Article: Monday books: Staying alive through the power of ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  August 5, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Byline: CIARAN McKEOWN Staying Alive - Real Poems for Unreal Times. Edited by Neil Astley. Published by Bloodaxe Books. Price pounds 10.95 DID school put you off poetry for life? Do you think it is strictly for arty-farty types, or people with special gifts? There is a doctor in Australia who has

Article: Monday books: Foreign field that feels so very ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  August 5, 2002 ;     587 words ...Byline: STEVEN MOORE A Foreign Field, by Ben Macintyre, published by HarperCollins Paperbacks pounds 7.99. WHEN a story drops into Ben Macintyre's lap, he makes the most of it. As a reporter in the Times' Paris office, he was dispatched to the little French village of Villeret to cover a ceremony

Article: Monday Books: A visual guide to the work of ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  July 29, 2002 ;     568 words ...Byline: DAPHNE ABERNETHY Guadi: Builder of Visions of Philippe Thiebaut. Published by Thames & Hudson. Price pounds 9.95 ANTONIO Gaudi and his inimitable fluid, organic style will be forever linked to Barcelona. His spectacular buildings, among them the Guell Palace and the monumental La

Article: Monday Books: Satirical look at the death of a pop ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  July 29, 2002 ;     359 words ...Sleb by Andrew Holmes. Published by Sceptre. Price pounds 10.99 (paperback). A BRILLIANT satire on celebrity and the media, Sleb centres on the murder of an international pop star, Felix Carter. He is killed when Chris Sewell, a famous ad sales executive with a drink problem, forces his way into

Article: Monday Books: Exploring the paranormal world of ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  July 29, 2002 ;     484 words ...Byline: KIM HEWITT Unexplained Encounters by Sheila St Clair. Published by White Row Press, Belfast. CLIFF Richard famously sang about a living doll but I'm sure it was not the same kind that is recalled in Lisburn woman Sheila St Clair's latest publication, Unexplained Encounters. Her book