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Greetings from Amazon.co.uk Delivers, Biography
Editor, Catherine Taylor

FEATURED IN THIS E-MAIL:
* What We're Reading
"Iris and the Friends"
by John Bayley
"Rudyard Kipling"
by Andrew Lycett
"'tis"
by Frank McCourt
* Interview with Michael Crawford
* Interview with Trevor Baylis
* Bestsellers
"Park and Ride"
by Miranda Sawyer
"Managing My Life"
by Alex Ferguson
"Addicted"
by Tony Adams

***WHAT WE'RE READING***
"Iris and the Friends"
by John Bayley
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0715629328/entertainments08
Novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch died in February 1999;
she had been living with Alzheimer's Disease for three years.
Her husband John Bayley published the elegiac "Iris: A Memoir"
during her last few months; now he has produced a sequel,
recounting Murdoch's final year, when she was visited more by
her own imaginary "friends" than by the exigencies of real life.

"Rudyard Kipling"
by Andrew Lycett
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0297819070/entertainments08
A sure-handed, mellow expertise is evident in Andrew Lycett's
new biography of Rudyard Kipling, one of 20th-century
literature's most controversial figures; a fine short-story
writer and poet of genius to some, an imperial apologist to
others. Lycett presents both sides of this flawed individual
without giving way to facile judgement.

"'Tis"
by Frank McCourt
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0002570807/entertainments08
The long-awaited sequel to his bestselling memoir "Angela's
Ashes", Frank McCourt's "'Tis" picks up the story in October,
1949, upon his arrival in America. McCourt views the US with
the same sharp eye and dark humour that distinguished his
first memoir; racial prejudice, casual cruelty and dead-end
jobs weigh on his spirits as he searches for a way out.
Fortunately, McCourt's openness to every variety of human
emotion and longing remains exceptional, as does his magical
prose.

***INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL CRAWFORD: A LIFE ON THE HIGH WIRE***
Some mothers do have 'em, but rarely are they as accomplished
an all-round entertainer as Michael Crawford. In "Parcel
Arrived Safely: Tied With String" the star of "The Phantom
of the Opera" and "Barnum" unwraps the ups and downs of a
celebrity life on the high wire. Crawford speaks to Amazon.co.uk
about his astonishing 40-year career.
Biography

***INTERVIEW WITH TREVOR BAYLIS: JACK OF ALL TRADES"
It's been a life less ordinary for Trevor Baylis, inventor
extraordinaire who masterminded the famous--and revolutionary--
clockwork radio. In his effervescent autobiography, "Clock
This", Baylis dares you to tune in and create for yourself.
Biography

***BESTSELLERS***
In bestsellers this month we bring you a witty trawl around
90s suburbia, the bestselling autobiography of one of the
most successful sports managers ever and, new in paperback,
an addictive memoir that combines two other 90s obsessions--
football and the confessional.

"Park and Ride"
by Miranda Sawyer
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316645753/entertainments08

"Managing My Life"
by Alex Ferguson
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0340728558/entertainments08

"Addicted"
by Tony Adams
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0002187957/entertainments08

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