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2 reviews
Joe Thorley

Virgin Publishing, 2003

A Biography with Pictures
This book provides a decent survey of the life and music of Canadian singer Avril Lavigne. The main drawback of the book is that the author apparently never interviewed Avril for it. Also, he apparently never interviewed anyone even connected with Avril. So this book is written from a distance. Mr. Thorley describes Lavigne's childhood growing up in Napanee, Ontario. She lived with her ...

A Bike Ride: 12,000 Miles Around the World

2 reviews
Anne Mustoe

Virgin Publishing, 2002

A 54 year old Headmistress bikes around the world.
Feeling 50 and old? Stuck in your ways with life a bit monotonous? Read this and feel the freedom of following the trail of Alexander the Great. Ride on the Royal Road through Turkey staying at local Inns and stopping for coffee. A fascinating book!

The Oxford Union Guide to Successful Public Speaking
Dominic Hughes, Benedict Phillips

Virgin Publishing, 2002

Since it was founded in 1823, the Oxford Union has established itself as the world's leading forum for debate. It is the place US senators visited to ask advice on the conduct of debates; a breeding ground for great orators - it has attracted an unparraleled collection of speakers over the years, including the Dalai Lama, Malcom X, Yasser Arafat, Henry Kissinger, Mother Theresa, Billy Joel, Ronald Regan, Michael Jackson. Dr Dominic Hughes and ...

The Complete Hitchcock

5 reviews
Paul Condon, Jim Sangster

Virgin Publishing, 1999

A great place to start
I bought this book sight-unseen, knowing absolutely nothing about it (which is why I'm now writing this review; maybe you'll be more willing to try it once you know what it has to offer). It's a thorough, well-nigh encyclopedic look at Hitch's work, with a brief chapter (averaging about 4 pages) on each major film. The chapters include complete cast and credits --including "uncredited cast" ...

Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill

1 review
Eddie Izzard

Virgin Publishing, 1998

first review?
It's been almost 10 years since the book has been out. It's about time that someone dropped a line about it. Whether you are a fan or not, this book will not disappoint. It shares photos & memories of growing up, frequent relocation (home & school), loss of his mother, and realizing his belief in total clothing rights.

Doctor Who: The Paradise of Death (Target Doctor Who Library, No 156)

1 review
Barry Letts

Virgin Publishing, 1994

Radio story works better as a book
For Doctor Who's thirtieth anniversary, the BBC commissioned a 5 episode original radio play featuring Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth Sladen and Nicholas Courtney reprising their roles as the Doctor, Sarah and the Brigadier. Written by former Doctor Who producer and sometime author Barry Letts, the story had all the potential to be something great. It wasn't. This novelisation is the last in the long ...

The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize

1 review
David Cavanagh

Virgin Publishing, 2001

A great read, but....
Critically acclaimed account of the (in)famous UK record label Creation Records. The book tells the story of flamboyant company founder Alan McGee and the many great bands that recorded for the label, such as the Jesus and Mary Chain, the House of Love, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Primal Scream and Oasis. It's incredibly comprehensive, including a wealth of behind the scenes material and ...

Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks (Doctor Who (BBC Paperback))

6 reviews
John Peel

Virgin Publishing, 1993

Novelization of Pat Troughton's 1st Who story
One of two Dr. Who stories that initially never got novelized due to rights involving Terry Nation, the creator of the Daleks, Power Of The Daleks was finally novelized by John Peel in 1993. The difference between this and the slim by the numbers novelizations of other stories is that this is a full twenty-six chapters, putting more depth into the characters of the Doctor, Ben, and Polly. As ...

From Joy Division to New Order: The True Story of Anthony H. Wilson and Factory Records

1 review
Mick Middles

Virgin Publishing, 2002

Fair to Middles
At the start, I felt Mick was a bit of a sycophant. And he may well be. As things progress, I was able to put that aside and was quite fascinated with this slice of British music history. And really, being sycphantic is not a bad thing in context. Anyone who was around when the music came out, or anyone who loves electro pop, dance and DJ culture should enjoy this. Me, I always love the Brits and ...

Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks (Target Doctor Who Library, No 155)

5 reviews
John Peel

Virgin Publishing, 1993

How the Daleks met their final end
Like its cousin, The Power Of The Daleks, the novelization for Evil Of The Daleks was also written by John Peel and is a story that's incomplete in TV form (except Episode 2). However, this is a very significant story in the Doctor Who canon, as this sees the very end of the Daleks. At least that's what it was meant, as Dalek creator Terry Nation was looking to market his creations in America, ...

The Hand of Amun (Black Lace Series)

11 reviews
Juliet Hastings

Virgin Publishing, 1997

A delicious tale from from a master writer ...
Somewhat atypical of the Black Lace series of books that deal with strong women that live hard, work hard and play hard, the Hands of Amun deal with a strong woman that seems to be taken along a path and adventure that was pre-destined for her in ancient Egypt. The main character Naunakhte, a beautifull young girl living in a humble village on the Nile with her adoptive parents, hopes that one ...

Inside Bartlet's White House: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to The West Wing

4 reviews
Keith Topping

Virgin Publishing, 2004

Great for looking up quick facts,
I use this all the time, still after all of these years being off the air. You can never have enough WW knowledge in my opinion.

Gilles Villeneuve: The Life of the Legendary Racing Driver

12 reviews
Gerald Donaldson

Virgin Publishing, 2003

Let me be clear...
Let me be clear: this is simply the best racing driver biography ever written. It's complete, well written, touching and objective at the same time, respectful to the dead. It's an amazing book. No doubt the writer is a big Villeneuve fan, but he managed to avoid being totally partial. It's full oof data, anecdotes, funny parts, tragic parts, competition, brief technical analysys of the cars, a ...

The Plant Programme: Recipes for Fighting Breast Cancer

2 reviews
Jane Plant, Gill Tidey

Virgin Publishing, 2002

A book I can't LIVE without!
It is 3 years since I bought this book,in April 2005, soon after being diagnosed with the most serious staging of prostate cancer. I had only just celebrated my 54th birthday and here was I being told that the prognosis was very, very bleak. I then bought and read Jane Plant's own inspiring story of her fight against breast cancer in her book "Your life In Your Hands", and I became convinced of ...

Eternity Weeps (Doctor Who: The New Adventures) (New Adventures)

3 reviews
Jim Mortimore

Virgin Publishing, 1997

In the end, everyone dies (or everyone dies in the end)
As the Virgin line was winding down, obviously the fine people there wanted to keep making money. To do that, they needed to keep publishing books, of course. But how to do it with the Doctor taken out of their hands? The idea was to just keep using Bernice Summerfield and other characters who were created for that series. In retrospect then, this novel seems like a test-run for that sort of ...

The Beatles Encyclopedia

3 reviews
Bill Harry

Virgin Publishing, 2001

COMPLETE AND FACTUAL!
Anyone who is a product of the 60's lived in an era where long hair was in, conformity was out, and the new wave of music from the Beatles was shaking the country from coast to coast. Boys copied the Beatles' music and hairstyle, while girls swooned, screamed and fainted as the world rocked to "I Wanna To Hold Your Hand." The Beatles had arrived! This book is a collector's item because it ...

Lone Wolf: True Stories of Spree Killers (Virgin True Crime)

1 review
Pan Pantziarka

Virgin Publishing, 2002

Well crafted true crime writing.
I read this book not knowing very much about what spree killers are, and along the way I learned an awful lot about them and what makes them tick. The book looks at a series of case histories, some of the British but mostly from the US. Each case had detailed biographies of these killers and covered in gruesome detail their horrenmdous acts of spree killing. As well as the case histories ...

Alan Rickman

14 reviews
Maureen Paton

Virgin Publishing, 2003

If You're a Fan, DON'T!!!!!
If you are truly a fan of Alan Rickman's -- or just interested in him as a wonderful actor -- run, don't walk, AWAY from this offensive drivel! I am not even going to dignify this tripe with a lengthy review...even a NEGATIVE one (and, if you haven't guessed by now, this IS a negative review). If, indeed, the man is to have an unauthorized biography, let it be worthy of him, and not this ...

As I Am: Abba Before & Beyond

38 reviews
Agnetha Faltskog, Brita Ahman

Virgin Publishing, 1997

One book to fall in love
I have read parts of different books about ABBA, but I have never liked to read the books about my favorite group.. for different reasons - and the main one is because in all these books it was not ABBA members' points of view, but the different person's. This is why I decided to try "As I Am" - not only because Agnetha Faltskog has been my favorite star for 10 years. I started the book the very ...

George Clooney: A Biography

1 review
Jeff Hudson

Virgin Publishing, 2004

good book, iffy subject
This is a well written book that is far above the typical quickie celebrity bios that you buy in the grocery store. The only qualm I have, is the subject. George Clooney is still rather early in his career. He's handsome and has made good decisions in picking movie parts but this isn't Clark Gable or Gary Cooper. He still has a long way to go before deserving the legend treatment that he gets ...

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