I find that I am rationing myself in the reading of his books. It happens with authors I really like. I fear that there is a finite number of books that they will write and therefore I try to prolong the pleasure in my reading by always having a title in reserve. Not very lucid or clever, I know, as there are so many authors out there that are worthwhile that the list will not end but will expand ever outwards like the universe (according to some scientists).
Tim Winton's writing reminds one of the style of J.M. Coetzee, whose stripped down, spare and lean prose strikes with the concentration of singularity. His writing is earthy and so vitally alive that it feels like your own heartbeat.
Enjoy.
This month we are featuring 2 unused books and one collectable book.
On the Edge - My Story by Richard Hammond.
From the fi
rst ridiculous stunts on his tricycle to his increasing and near obsessive attraction to speed and the smell of gas, this is the high-octane life of TV personality Richard Hammond. A lively and intelligent communicator, TV soon beckoned for Hammond. He became one of the daredevil trio--along with Jeremy Clarkson and James May--who have made an enormous, world-wide success of the revamped BBC TV program Top Gear, Hammond describes the personalities, the camaraderie, and the stunts with which the trio entertains their weekly audiences, including the day of his 300 MPH crash that took his show off the air, put him into a coma, and plunged a nation into mourning. The stages of recovery as his shattered mind reformed are covered, as are the milestones in his slow recovery to full health and his return to Top Gear.
Beneath The Bleeding by Val McDermid
Tony H
ill, criminal profiler and hero of the television series Wire in the Blood, is back in a terrifying psychological thriller from bestselling author Val McDermid. Troubled criminal profiler Dr Tony Hill may have problems of his own but when Bradfield CID need him, he's the best they've got. While the police sometimes view him with the same suspicion as some of their suspects, DCI Carol Jordan is one of the few who appreciates his unique talents. For Tony, the feeling is more than mutual. Both have survived horrifying ordeals of their own. In Beneath the Bleeding they must risk them again. As the two return to duty, it's Val McDermid at her terrifying best.
404 pages, September 2007 Published by HarperCollins Publishers
Published Price : R195.00
Tall Stories Price : R85.00
First Edition.Faber & Faber : London (1967) Very Good +/ Very Good. Blue Cloth. Octavo. 96 pp. Gilt titles on the spine. Slight spinal lean. Edges of the boards slightly dusty. Ink name of a previous owner on the front free end paper. Very, very light tanning to the end-papers. Spine of the dust-jacket browned. Very minor line of tanning to the interior top edge of the dust-jacket (2mm). Very light wear to the top and bottom edge of the spine of the dust jacket (1 mm chip, couple of millimetre closed tears). Slight soiling on the rear panel of the dust-jacket (more shelf-wear than soiling).
ad", and "Rock 'n' Roll". He co-wrote the screenplays for "Brazil", "Shakespeare in Love", "Empire of the Sun" and "The Russia House" and is rumoured to have assisted George Lucas with some of the dialogue for "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". It is also rumoured that Stoppard worked on "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", though he never received any official or formal credit in this role. He worked in a similar capacity with Tim Burton on his film "Sleepy Hollow". He was born Tomás Straussler in Zlín, Czechoslovakia. He fled to Singapore with other Jews on 15 March 1939, the day that the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia. In 1941, the family was evacuated to Darjeeling, India, to escape the Japanese invasion of Singapore. His father, Eugen Straussler, remained behind as a British army volunteer, and died in a Japanese prison camp after capture. Stoppard completed his first play ("A Walk on the Water", later retitled "Enter a Free Man") in 1960. This first play was optioned and staged in Hamburg. Stoppard conitnued to work in London for "Scene" magazine often writing under the pseudonym of William Boot which he took from Evelyn Waugh's "Scoop". On the 11th of April, 1967, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" opened to acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival and Stoppard became an international success. Indeed he has become an adjective : "Stoppardian" has become a term used to refer to works in which an author makes use of witty statements to create comedy while addressing philosophical concepts. The linguistic complexity of his works, with their puns, jokes, innuendo, and other wordplay, is a chief characteristic of his work. In 2008, Stoppard was voted number 76 on the Time magazine's list of the most influential people in the world. "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" is one of Stoppar
d's most famous works. It is a comedic play which casts two minor characters from Hamlet as its leads, but with the same lack of power to affect their world or exterior circumstances as they have in Shakespeare's original. Hamlet's role is similarly reversed in terms of his stage time and lines, but it is in his wake that the heroes drift helplessly toward their inevitable demise. Rather than shaping events, they pass the time playing witty word games and pondering their predicament. It is similar to Samuel Beckett's absurdist "Waiting for Godot", particularly in the main characters' lack of purpose and incomprehension of their situation. In 1990, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead", was made into a film staring Gary Oldman as Rosencrantz and Tim Roth as Guildenstern. The film was directed by Stoppard and won the Golden Lion Award. - Sourced (text & images) from Wikpedia.Price: R11 400.00
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