... hello. The more culturally aware of you will recognise a line or more from a few Bob Dylan songs in the above text (no, not “mmmf . . . splfff . . . mmble . . .”—obviously that’s from a Tom Waits tune). Bob has been much on my mind of late. Not surprising ...

... History (Second World War) Carroll, Tim. Great Escapers, The: The Full Story of the Second World War’s Most Remarkable Mass Escape. 20cm.288p.8col.insert n.e. pbk £7.99 Mainstream Pub. Co. (10.2004) 1 84018 904 5 David, Saul. Churchill’s Sacrifice of ...

... Live Forever, in January 2008. The deal, for world rights, was brokered by PFD agent Rosemary Canter, who judged the prize. The book, which includes lists, stories and questions, is the fictional scrapbook of an 11-year-old boy with leukaemia. “Sam asks ...

... Some beautiful images of Dylan in his youthful, less ragged days, plus text from Springsteen chronicler Marsh, make this a handsome package. With competition from Bob’s own Scrapbook and Chronicles, however, it may suffer and languish in the wake. Benjamin ...

... Owen Collins Willow, September, £9.99, 0002189372 Like the Beckham book, this scrapbook is again aimed primarily at children. If he manages to repeat his feats in the 1998 World Cup (that goal) at Euro 2000, this portfolio of exclusive behind-the-scenes ...

... National Portrait Gallery will feature this exhibition displaying selfportraits from some of the world’s greatest artists from the 16th to the 20th Century. A fully illustrated book of the same name by Anthony Bond and Joanna Woodall (National Portrait ...

... which,apart from the bookshops, include beach kiosks, hotels, garages, tea shops, campsites, co-ops, the museum gift shop and the tourist board. Recently I received an impressive freebie: volume one of Guernsey: Local Business on a World Stage, produced ...

... 000 copies in hardback, will be released in October along with The Bob Dylan Scrapbook 1956–1966 (also Simon & Schuster, above) in October. Both Dylan books will benefit from a two-part BBC 2 “Arena” film about the reclusive artist, which will be directed ...

... starting middle school and gives an engaging account of school and family life. Called a “scrapbook novel”because it contains a 32-page colour section of scrapbook artwork (a craze in the US) devised by the author herself. Charlotte Haptie Otto and the ...

... classic book,” she explains. “We felt we’d done the scrapbook style, and we didn’t want a ‘dip in, dip out’ book. We wanted to invite people to read it cover to cover.” The interviews—interspersed by essays from observers such as photographer David Bailey and ...

... Serialisation of Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ Off the Shelf World Service, 8.45 am Daily extracts from Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (Cape) World Service, 10.30 am The Word: World How to Get Published Harriet Gilbert follows the progress ...

... Humphrey Lyttelton It Just Occurred to Me … An Autobiographical Scrapbook Robson, October, £12.99, 1861059019 Radio 4 listeners will be wanting to hear revelations about the lovely Samantha from “I’m Sorry, I Haven’t a Clue”; jazz fans will be entertained ...