MARION BOYARS

(P/B) THE DEMON

(H/B) RUNNY BABBIT
So if you say, "Let's bead a rook That's billy as can se," You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk, Just like mim and he. RUNNY BABBIT is a previously unpublished collection of Pig Latin verses - meet Wormy Squirm, Goctor Doose, Snerry Jake and their friends the Funny Bamily. Hilarious and acutely observed animal characters from Shel Silverstein, one of America's best loved poets - think Spike Milligan meets Edward Lear: this is nonsense poetry that makes perfect sense. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
Shel Silverstein is one of America’s best loved poets, whose work is read by every child in the USA but is almost unknown in the UK. Think Spike Milligan meets Edward Lear: it’s nonsense poetry that makes perfect sense. Of course you would sell your sister, who wouldn’t want to get rid of ‘This crying and spying young sister for sale?’ Shel Silverstein’s work is full of children who eat whales, who can kick footballs from here to Afghanistan, who know that thumb sucked thumbs taste the sweetest, and can’t go to school because their brains ...
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(P/B) QUINTESSENTIAL TARANTINO
When people ask me if I went to film school, I say 'No, I went to films.' - Quentin Tarantino From Reservoir Dogs in 1992 to the recent Kill Bill series, the films of Quentin Tarantino have always provoked a reaction from critics and audiences alike - many attracting a cult-like following.Edwin Page discusses each of the eight films which Tarantino has written, directed, or both - in an attempt to find out how the former video store clerk has realised his fantasy and become one of the world’s most successful and well-known directors. Exam...
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(P/B) THE FLEA PALACE
The setting is a stately residence in Istanbul built by Russian noble e'migre' Pavel Antipov for his wife Agripina at the end of the Tsarist reign, now sadly dilapidated, flea-infested, and home to ten families. Shafak uses the narrative structure of A Thousand and One Nights to construct a story-within-a-story narrative. Inhabitants include Ethel, a lapsed Jew in search of true love and the sad and beautiful Blue Mistress whose personal secret provides the novel with an unforgettable denouement. Add to this a strange, intensifying stench ...
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(P/B) REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
Requiem For A Dream , now a major film by cult director Darren Aronofsky, is a modern-day fable set in New York. Lonely widow Sara Goldfarb nurtures fantasies about appearing on prime-time television, while her son Harry, with girlfriend Marion and buddy Tyrone C Love, plans his break into big-time drug dealing. Their eyes fixed on an impossible future they move blindly onwards, contorting their lives into coils of self-deception as they struggle to keep their dreams alive. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE ROOM

(P/B) GOTHIC FANTASY

(H/B) A WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS
Shel Silverstein is one of America’s best loved poets, whose work is read by every child in the USA but is almost unknown in the UK. Think Spike Milligan meets Edward Lear: it’s nonsense poetry that makes perfect sense. Of course you would sell your sister, who wouldn’t want to get rid of ‘This crying and spying young sister for sale?’ Shel Silverstein’s work is full of children who eat whales, who can kick footballs from here to Afghanistan, who know that thumb sucked thumbs taste the sweetest, and can’t go to school because their brains ...
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(P/B) FERDYDURKE
In this bitterly funny novel, the hero narrates the story of his absurd transformation from confident 30-year-old man into paranoid teenage boy. Awakening one morning in the grip of fear he receives two unwelcome visitors: a ghost of himself standing in the corner of his room, then Pimko, the diabolic doctor of philosophy. As Pimko talks, the narrator finds himself shrinking and Pimko, in turn, growing larger and larger. So begins a hellish nightmare: Ferdydurke is dragged back to the school playground and forced to experience the cruel ou...
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ARTAUD AT RODEZ (P/B)

WAITING PERIOD

(H/B) STORY OF THE EYE

(P/B) LIMITS TO MEDICINE - MEDICAL NEMESIS

(P/B) EROTICISM

(P/B) THE COMPOSER IN HOLLYWOOD

(P/B) BLUE OF NOON
Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is one of Bataille's most overtly political works, exploring the ambiguity of sex as a subversive force and synthesizing the fetishes of violence, power and death that mesmerized an age. In this classic of twentieth century eroticism, the reader is taken on a dark journey through the psyche of the pre-war French intelligentsia, torn between identification with the victims of history and the glamour of its victors. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE DEVIL IN THE FLESH

(P/B) SONG OF THE SILENT ROOM

(H/B) LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN