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Vegetable Growing Month-by-month: The Down-to-earth Guide That Takes You Through the Vegetable Year

by: John Harrison

March 13, 2008
This is an excellent purchase, what would you get for under a fiver nowadays? As a novice gardener I found the chapters on planning the gardening year and getting the most from your land absolutely vital.This guide covers the basics in a very comprehensive manner indeed and although a little lacking in the visual side of things the quality of information contained more than compensates.The brief guide to vegetables is excellent and I can safely say this guide will continue to be used as a reference even after my garden is well established.Worth every penny.

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Sophocles: Antigone (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama)

by: Sophocles

January 09, 2003
This is an excellent purchase, what would you get for under a fiver nowadays? As a novice gardener I found the chapters on planning the gardening year and getting the most from your land absolutely vital.This guide covers the basics in a very comprehensive manner indeed and although a little lacking in the visual side of things the quality of information contained more than compensates.The brief guide to vegetables is excellent and I can safely say this guide will continue to be used as a reference even after my garden is well established.Worth every penny.

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The Chrysalids (Penguin Modern Classics)

by: John Wyndham

February 03, 2000
We think that Wyndham's book 'The Chrysalids' was an extraordinary book with amazing descriptions. This book would be suitable for people of 11 years and upwards. Some of the ideas are quite challenging, but we read it in class, and were able to have discussions about some of these elements, for example whether the Great Horses were a deviation or not.

The book starts with David's dream of a calm sea, and a shining city with flying fish shaped machines, but this is a world that the people of Waknuk have never seen. The introduction made us think initially that the book might be a little boring, but then we met Sophie. Sophie is a normal, fun loving girl...or is she...

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Viriconium: "Pastel City", "Storm of Wings", "In Viriconium", "Viriconium Nights" (Fantasy Masterworks)

by: M. John Harrison

July 13, 2000
Wonderful prose, wonderful imagination, a writer who has brought fantasy and literary fiction together in one of the most powerful creations in the genre; and he's a writer who refuses to let the conventions and limitations of genre and place get the better of him. This is an essential read for anyone who demands more than a simple page turner.

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Nova Swing (Gollancz S.F.)

by: M. John Harrison

November 08, 2007
Genre novels are never considered for the Booker prize. And never mind that middle-class angst is as much a genre as crime or science/weird fiction. When challenged, the keepers of the provincial book-club flame murmur disparagingly that, of course, science fiction writers are, well, not that good, are they? Certainly not the kind of work to offer ladies-who-lunch in Tunbridge Wells, with whom the publishing industry is curiously obsessed. . .as it is with celebrity, surely the publishing equivalent of hedge funds. Trouble being that publishing is infested with marketeers convinced books are the same as detergent or baked beans; that you can turn anything into a 'brand' and that the market rules, okay.
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Nova Swing (Gollancz S.F.)

by: M. John Harrison

November 09, 2006
Genre novels are never considered for the Booker prize. And never mind that middle-class angst is as much a genre as crime or science/weird fiction. When challenged, the keepers of the provincial book-club flame murmur disparagingly that, of course, science fiction writers are, well, not that good, are they? Certainly not the kind of work to offer ladies-who-lunch in Tunbridge Wells, with whom the publishing industry is curiously obsessed. . .as it is with celebrity, surely the publishing equivalent of hedge funds. Trouble being that publishing is infested with marketeers convinced books are the same as detergent or baked beans; that you can turn anything into a 'brand' and that the market rules, okay.
Except this is, actually, piss-poor marketing. The ... Read More:

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Languedoc and Southwest France (Drive Around) (Drive Around)

by: Gillian Thomas, John Harrison

June 07, 2007
Genre novels are never considered for the Booker prize. And never mind that middle-class angst is as much a genre as crime or science/weird fiction. When challenged, the keepers of the provincial book-club flame murmur disparagingly that, of course, science fiction writers are, well, not that good, are they? Certainly not the kind of work to offer ladies-who-lunch in Tunbridge Wells, with whom the publishing industry is curiously obsessed. . .as it is with celebrity, surely the publishing equivalent of hedge funds. Trouble being that publishing is infested with marketeers convinced books are the same as detergent or baked beans; that you can turn anything into a 'brand' and that the market rules, okay.
Except this is, actually, piss-poor marketing. The ... Read More:

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Star Wars: Vector v. 1 (Star Wars): Vector v. 1 (Star Wars)

by: John Jackson Miller, Mick Harrison

February 27, 2009
Genre novels are never considered for the Booker prize. And never mind that middle-class angst is as much a genre as crime or science/weird fiction. When challenged, the keepers of the provincial book-club flame murmur disparagingly that, of course, science fiction writers are, well, not that good, are they? Certainly not the kind of work to offer ladies-who-lunch in Tunbridge Wells, with whom the publishing industry is curiously obsessed. . .as it is with celebrity, surely the publishing equivalent of hedge funds. Trouble being that publishing is infested with marketeers convinced books are the same as detergent or baked beans; that you can turn anything into a 'brand' and that the market rules, okay.
Except this is, actually, piss-poor marketing. The ... Read More:

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Light (Gollancz S.F.)

by: M. John Harrison

September 01, 2003

The majority of the story appears complex as it unfolds, but blossoms into a beautifully written conjunction of the three main story arcs: three characters of different times and places, one the creator of the technology another relies upon, the other hopelessly intertwined with both. The inexplicable and deeply interesting events of the plot somehow follow one another into deeper madness, yet never confuse or put off the reader. The net result is an easy-to-read, intricately composed piece of literary fiction pretending to be sci-fi.

Awesome: 8.5/10

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Study Skills for Criminology (Sage Study Skills Series)

by: John Harrison, Mark R Simpson, Olwen Harrison, Emma Martin

August 18, 2005

The majority of the story appears complex as it unfolds, but blossoms into a beautifully written conjunction of the three main story arcs: three characters of different times and places, one the creator of the technology another relies upon, the other hopelessly intertwined with both. The inexplicable and deeply interesting events of the plot somehow follow one another into deeper madness, yet never confuse or put off the reader. The net result is an easy-to-read, intricately composed piece of literary fiction pretending to be sci-fi.

Awesome: 8.5/10