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JULIAN COPE
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In 1995. roek‘n‘roll druid lL'I.IAr\' (iOl’F. iol‘the Teardrop Fsplodesi sc'lllriiililislic'cl and distributed his searineg honest autobiograpr Head ()II. Never widely
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‘VAQUES 'IIATI — His Life and Art” The life of‘one of the twentieth eenturv‘s great eomedians. by one of its outstanding biographers.
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TIM SEVERIN
“In Search of Moby Dick”
Herman Melville‘s famous novel Moby Dick immortalised the idea of a battling white sperm whale. But did such a beast ever exist? Aeelaimed writer and explorer Tim Severin travelled to the islands of the l’aeilie to find out.
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So begins the latest journal ofithe 3f) & a quarter writer
books
review
WESTERN COLLECTION The Tonto Woman And Other Stories
Elmore Leonard (Viking £16.99)
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Before Hollywood had immortalised Elmore Leonard's writing on film and before the author fashioned his own brand of international success with his crime fiction, Leonard wrote western novels
And before that in the 50s he wrote short stories for magazines such as [June Western and Two-Gun Western In these tales you'l1 find the origins of Leonard's sparse, rugged prose and his eye for character detail
'Saint With A Six-Gun' tells of the cool, gwet herOism of a naive deputy sheriff guarding a Wily outlaw in the week leading up to his hanging ‘You Never See Apaches ' is about an old Indian scout unafraid to die and treasure hunters all-too eager to And, in the title story, a gunslinger treats an abandoned woman With the respect her husband denies her after she is tattooed by Indians.
A must for the fans, these lean tales still sit tall in the saddle after all these years (MF)
MULTI-NARRATIVE COLLECTION
The Good Times James Kelman (Vintage £6.99)
Readers unfamiliar With the work of Booker Winner James Kelman considered by many to be the Godfather of ScotLit and looking for an accessible and palatable entree to his writing need look no further than this collection of short stories
Fans of his work Will not be
' disappomted to find Kelman in familiar
territory. His distinctive prose style — a fluid blend of the vernacular and the formal ~~ conveys a fascmation With language, While the stories themselves confess a commitment to the fragility of the human condition
In twenty short stories, Kelman taps into the male psyche, and articulates the frustrations of men kicking against ignorance, boredom and the banality of a great meaSure of eXistence Sustaining a deep-rooted optimism throughout, Kelman infuses his brief
but \’I‘.|Cl insights into the lives of men yearning t'or certainty with uplifting humour and p0ignant obsenations
Not one to shy away from urbai‘ realities, Kelman instead meets them head on with almost confessional honesty iCBt
PHILOSOPHICAL ROMANCE Veronika Decides To Die
Paulo Coelho (HarperCollins £9.99)
Veronika does indeed dec ide to die, but her suicide attempt is unsuccessful, she wakes up confined in a mental hospital, and in the ensuing few days re-evaluates What brocight her there, With the help of her fellow inmates
This is a touchineg optimistic novel With many genuinely thought- provoking forays into philosophy, it seeks to blur further that sniuclgy line between sanity and madness, deride conformity and celebrate extremes Considering that Coelho is one of the biggest selling authors in the world, it's a pleasantly sniall-sc ale, unassuming project, but it's also unashamedly evangelistic, perhaps due to the author's own experiences as a young man
He wants, above all, to change the way you look at your life If you can stomach the slightly preac hy, Litt/e Book Of Calm-lined moments, he might succeed, but this is too sugary for cynical palates (HIvII
NUMERICAL FABLE The Man Who Counted IVIaIba Tahan (Canongate £9.99)
A lone traveller on the road to Baghdad stumbles across a Sf-POIIIIIIQly mad man shouting numbers to the Wind. Sensing genius in his numerical ramblings, the pair forge a friendship and Journey on together to captivate the city's inhabitants With the mild- mannered Wisdom of Beremi/ Samir, the man Who counted
The resulting novel is a mythical, mathematical adventure story set among the rich and exotic surroundings of ancient Baghdad Comparableinster and content to The Arabian Nights and Aesop ’s Fab/es, the stories, on a purely academic level, pay homage to famous inathematiCians and offer valid introductions to the schools of geometry, algebra, astronomy and mechanics
All this is delivered in a concise style With diagrams to assist in the more complicated equations Never has the Pythagorean theorem seemed so straightforward in a book that does for mathematics what Mary Poppins did for medicine (CB)
DRUG CULTURE
How To Stop Time: Heroin From A To 2
Ann Marlowe (Virago £12) t it n i-
Ann Marlowe was a Junkie She picked up herom as she might have picked up a man, had an affair With it, in Which she always managed to keep to Just below a bag a day, and called it off after seven years This fact gives her