Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography

Author	Dorothea Brande
ISBN	0874771641

Refreshingly slim, beautifully written and deliciously elegant, Dorothea Brande's Becoming a Writer remains evergreen decades after it was first written. Brande believed passionately that although people have varying amounts of talent, anyone can write. It's just a question of finding the "writer's...

Author	Evelyn Waugh
ISBN	0141184248

Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the...

Author	Sasha Sokolov
ISBN	0941423077

“Since it’s winter what kind of butterflies can you be speaking of, asks the pedagogue with mock surprise, what’s wrong – are you crazy? And you respond with unshaken dignity: in the winter one can speak only of winter lepidoptera, those which are called snow butterflies, I catch them in the...

Author

Martin Stannard

Recently I have re-discovered Muriel Spark’s work and have enjoyed becoming re-acquainted with her novels. Realising I knew very little about her life, I decided to read her biography and, having done so, feel it was very well researched and covered both her work, and life, well.

Muriel...

Author	Peter Carey
ISBN	0679743324

As If

Many of the reviews of this fantastic collection of short stories mention the following comment by Peter Carey:

"The trouble with academics is that they try too hard to understand these stories ....

"They should relax. The stories are only about what they seem to be about....

Author	Evelyn Waugh
ISBN	0316917338

Black Mischief, " Waugh's third novel, helped to establish his reputation as a master satirist. Set on the fictional African island of Azania, the novel chronicles the efforts of Emperor Seth, assisted by the Englishman Basil Seal, to modernize his kingdom. Profound hilarity ensues from the issuance...

Author	Ruth Rendell
ISBN	0345351746

I read this because I was in a mood for some good classic mystery novel. Unfortunately, it was neither of those things.

First of all, I should've picked something American, as I find all mid-sized English towns dreary, and can hardly ever muster any enthusiasm for books taking place in mid-sized...