Weekend Review - Mon 14th May
Cricket Reviews, the story behind Grovel and more controversy for 7.
Reviews this week tend to focus on those titles that have been around for a couple of weeks. John Major's More Than a Game is given a positive review in The Independent and Lionel Shriver's Post-birthday World gets another (surely the last) review in The Telegraph.
We know that David Tossell's excellent Grovel has been generating a lot of publicity during the current tour. There was an excellent BBC4 documentary Nation on Film: Caribbean Cricket shown on Friday night which examined the 1976 series in detail. Excellent documentary and good soundtrack as well and well worth a watch. If anyone missed it, fortunately there's another showing (no-one is allowed to say repeat any more) next week. Listings details are here.
Andrew Baker interviews Peter Baxter of Test Match Special and, of course, that's nicely celebrated in Test Match Special 50 Not Out.
The continuing trials and tribulations of Gazza's rehabilitation are aired in Being Gazza and his recent paperback release is reviewed in The Indepedent.
Charles Rangeley Wilson appeared in a celebration of all things Fishing in The Guardian on Saturday. You might have to play around with the link a bit - I could only find the introduction to the piece, but it was a 8 page pull out special in the printed version.
Over in the States, it appears that 7 is again causing controversy. We've previously reported that the book was withdrawn by Murdoch and picked up by Lyons Press. Publishers Weekly are now reporting that the recently released audiobook edition has been released without any credits to the narrator. It's said that a number of narrators were approached who didn't want to be associated with the reading. The narrator who finally took the project wished to remain anoymous.
Despite the huge publicity and a print run believed to be 250,000 reported sales figures of the book are believed to be in the region of 3000 copies sold.
Less controversially, Publishers Weekly there's also a review of a forthcoming book on James Blake.
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‘Weekend Review - Mon 14th May’ was posted by Liam Doyle on Mon, 21st May 2007 at 10:42:41 BST and filed under book reviews.
