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1066 & All That: 75th Anniversary Edition (Methuen Humour) 13 reviews
W. C. Sellar
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2006
And it is all true
If you've ever visited England, you'll swear this is all true. And who will dispute you? Most people "remember" history more or less the way it is recounted here. A gem -- provided you really do know something of English history.
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Road From Coorain 46 reviews
Jill Kathryn Conway
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1992
enjoyable read
The wonderful autobiography entitled, The Road From Coorain, written by Jill Ker Conway is a must-read! Her engaging and rich detail gives an enchanting description of the Australian life-style from a very unique perspective.
Beginning in the 1930's, young Jill Ker lived with her tightly-knit family on a ranch called Coorain, Australia. Isolated in the desert and located far from Sydney, ...
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I, Claudius160 reviews
Robert Graves
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1976
Totally awesome
"I Claudius" was the first book that convinced me that history could be engrossing. Ridiculously fun to read - it delivers a thrill on a level with the first time you saw "The Mikado", heard the Saint-Saens cello concerto, Callas singing 'Casta Diva'. You get the picture.
It is a stroke of genius for Graves to choose Claudius, the drooling 'halfwit' among the Caesars, overlooked and ridiculed ...
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Autobiography of A Face99 reviews
Lucy Grealy
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2004
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...Go Away
With great description and vivid detail, Lucy Grealy explains the traumatic effects of living with cancer treatments and a crooked jaw line in her memoir, The Autobiography of a Face. Grealy reveals her inner thoughts of self-consciousness in her everyday interactions, portraying how even a simple conversation can provoke great anxiety: "Out of nowhere came an intense feeling that he shouldn't be ...
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Revolutionary Road (Modern American Fiction)99 reviews
Richard Yates
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2001
Suburban disillusionment keenly detailed
Yates really exposes the true feeling of what it is like to attain the so called American Dream and yet feel emptiness and despair. Frank and April Wheeler are a reflection of what happens when Americans settle for the comfort and empty promises of the suburban life. The characters often operate on such a superficial level that their level of self suppression is suffocating to themselves and ...
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You'll Have Had Your Hole 5 reviews
Irvine Welsh
Methuen Publishing, Ltd., 1998
great quick read if you like irvine welsh
just going to be brief, but i thought this was an enjoyable quick read about two kidnappers and the guy they kidnap and his gf. its like welsh's other novels where it has some very funny parts but at other times has some very deep serious portions.
some of it might seem to be a bit of a stretch, but hey it is fiction, it'd probably be interesting to actually see on stage.
so if you like welsh ...
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The Red Devil: A Memoir About Beating the Odds38 reviews
Katherine Russell Rich
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2002
Courageous
For a cancer survivor to record the whole nasty experience and not succumb to the fear that the words she writes will be her last is so courageous and selfless. They don't have to share, but they do. My mother-in-law is in her second remission from ovarian cancer. As a family member who so dearly loves her and wishes this evil cancer would be silenced, Kathy's novel is refreshing. I agree with ...
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Ella Minnow Pea57 reviews
Mark Dunn
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2003
Absolutely brilliant. I could never do it justice.
This review will likely never earn a "yes" vote for its helpfulness, but nevertheless, I wanted to share that I absolutely adored this book. The premise was brilliant and I not once felt that the excution got stale. I don't know; maybe I'm just easier to amuse/impress than some, but this book really was one of the smartest things I've ever read.
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Jesus' Son93 reviews
Denis Johnson
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2004
Children of loneness
In Denis Johnson's stunning collection of short stories "Jesus' Son", there is an image that stays with you most of the time. This is the picture of loneness and desolation. In one of the best tales, called "Emergency", the main character whose name goes by FH and a friend drive through the country. They eventually find a drive-in. But the weather is awful and there is no one in there - even ...
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The Moviegoer107 reviews
Walker Percy
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2004
Slicing into the core of mundacity
The Moviegoer is a worthwhile read for anyone who questions the tediousness and resultant boredom of life. It is certainly not outdated for being published in 1960; if anything, it is more relevant today than then. Life as we know it now is even more formulaic than then. It is now even more difficult (if not impossible)to escape the "everydayness" we experience. Binx questions, attempts to search ...
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Now We Are Six17 reviews
A. A. Milne
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1965
A must for all libraries
A.A.Milne's "Now We are Six" is a must for all chldren. Read it over and over, and son the child will learn favorite poems and can look at the words and read along. It is good that children learn the Real Pool characters rather than Disney's idea.
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Merry Christmas, Strega Nona 6 reviews
Tomie De Paola
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1987
Great :() One of my family's favorite books
I love this book. My family always reads this book when christmas is coming up. This book is about Strega Nona getting ready for christmas. She has everything ready, but then something happens. To find out read this book. If you like this book also read another christmas book called The Poinsetta by Tomie De Paola.
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A Traveller in Rome4 reviews
H.V. Morton
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2006
SHAMEFULLY OUT OF PRINT
There is a small, independent bookshop in New York dedicated to the Art of Travel. It is there that I've spent many happy hours looking through new and used books and maps- some treasures and some highly disposable. One of the favorite places I've ever visited is Rome, Italy. And this book by H. V. Morton which is shamefully out of print, is positively the finest I've read on this forever ...
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Thelwell's Pony Cavalcade4 reviews
Norman Thelwell
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2000
cherished since childhood
I was so happy to find that this book (collection of three books actually) by Thelwell had been re-released. As another reviewer said the quality of the illustrations are not a good as the origional editions. But the spirit of his art and humour is still intact. This book is a collection of very funny sketches of horses and their owners going through everything that horses and their owners go ...
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Thelwell's Pony Panorama1 review
Norman Thelwell
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2000
re-release of three of his best!
Pony Panorama is a re-release of "Thelwell Goes West," "Penelope," and Gymkhana." These are three of my all-time favorite Thelwell books. At last, we don't have to haunt the used bookstores any more!
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Riding Academy3 reviews
Norman Thelwell
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2006
A British cartoonist looks at learning to ride a pony
This is one of my favorite books from childhood. A tongue-in-cheek riding instruction manual, it is filled with cartoons about the antics of girls and their sometimes-naughty ponies. Add subtle British humor to the mix, and it's a must for girls in that "horsey" stage . . . my 10-year-old adores it!
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For Colored Girls Who Have When the Rain18 reviews
Ntozake Shange
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1978
It Ain't The Same If Your African American
This incredibly precious gem of a book was produced on Broadway back in the late 70's or early 80's but I was too young to see it at the time and probably would not have been able to relate to it anyway. In this prose poem, a "choreopoem" Shange depicts the hardships of African American Women in America. The different perspective of their lives is precisely and poignantly elucidated by the ...
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The Magic Years (University Paperbacks)19 reviews
Selma Horwitz Fraiberg
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1968
Well worth reading
Of the twenty or so books on parenting I read after our first daughter was born, I recommend this one to friends most often. Based on research, well written and with almost no redundant material, this book helped me understand psychological development of our child very much. Two more books I would readily recommend are Haim G Ginott's Between Parent and Child and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek's Einstein ...
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Gymkhana (Methuen Humour)
Norman Thelwell
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2006
The master of advice on equitation returns in this classic and much-loved cartoon selection. The originator of the classic pony cartoon, Thelwell's work has been beloved of children and equestrians for decades, and its popularity seems set to continue. Since their debut appearance in Punch over 40 years ago, Norman Thelwell's cartoons and drawings have delighted millions of people all over the world. He died in February 2004.
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Story
Robert McKee
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1999
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