7/1 £500 Waterstone vouchers (quiz)

NOSONDDU

kirsteenatom wrote: »

The Birds: Crow Country by Mark Crocker (apparently)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crow-Country-Mark-Cocker/dp/0224076019/ref=pd_sim_b_title_2

Can we have the original list with the numbers in that don't have anwswers yet? It's easier to see what we still need to look at.

Kirsteen

am I being thick but which number?

toniq

1 b) http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780230006553&itm=2
this is the blair book which looks ahead, written by a journo
New Progressive Dilemma: Australia and Tony Blair's Legacy by David O'Reilly
Synopsis

The New Progressive Dilemma documents the international diffusion, ideological meaning and long-term political implications of the 'ideas' that informed the late twentieth-century revolution in thinking inside the British Labour Party - a revolution that had important antecedents in Australia.
More Reviews and Recommendations
Biography

DAVID O'REILLY is a journalist and academic who researches and teaches comparative politics, Anglo-Australian relations and journalism and media studies. He is currently based at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King's College, London, UK. This is his third book.

masterthief

ah, sorry toniq - I was being a bit inept there.

yes, this one sounds good - I used to work in politics (until last spring - but not as Blair's assistnt or anything!! it was just coincidence!) and the only books on blair/labour that I've been aware of generally look at the history of the party or the future of the party in non-ideological terms.

the only texts like this that I'm aware of being published in 2007 were just articles, not complete books, or compendiums with a whole batch of writers.

so, yup, that book is sounding very much like the right answer - props fam.

toniq

could this be 8a)http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307266156
thesynopsis describes his struggles and trekking through europe, im not 100% but it looks like theres a chance.

review snippet
“A classical guitar prodigy, Kurtz was utterly devoted to music, but he recognized, at age 23, that he did not have the talent or temperament to be the next Segovia. Years later he returns to the guitar and to meticulous practicing, aiming not at a career, but at a sustaining spiritual experience. This book’s lovely essays also contain lots of lyrical appreciation for guitar history and Eastern Europe.”
–Stanford Magazine (July/August 2007)

toniq

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Self-Help-Edward-Docx/dp/0330438352/ref=br_lf_m_1000094993_1_9_img?ie=UTF8&s=books&pf_rd_p=157596091&pf_rd_s=center-5&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_i=1000094993&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=1HSVXY3P7AGQDYXV6JP3
that seems to cover 8b)
russian /american settingwith the musician bit thrown in, there were only 13 booker longlisted books so one of 8 had to be on the list and this is the only one that fitted the clue.
review snippet

Meanwhile, a talented Russian pianist has links to the Glovers. His life is a million miles from theirs. Docx thrillingly evokes the sleazy underbelly of the poverty-stricken in Russia, and the horrors of drug dependency, withdrawal and eking out a living in a criminal world are fascinatingly depicted.

There are so many breathtakingly potent sections in this novel. Fear, anger, loyalty, hatred and love are all seared into the text, and some sections are white-knuckle inducing. Docx captures the conflicting emotions that family evokes. And the characters are rounded and believable, they have faults like real people, and their dialogue sparkles.

The Booker should have gone to this or to Darkmans

kirsteenatom

sorry! lol - the Birds one is one of the covers at the end

Kirsteen

NOSONDDU

Will someone please check I've copied everything alright onto the OP.

toniq

its all there,thanks x
toni

toniq

could this be 5 b)
she won the booker prize in 94 and ive scanned the booker prize winners list for the females that wrote anything last year as well as as being based south, this is based in somerset and is about her inner turmoil.
http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780670915835,00.html
penelope lively consequences.

toniq

im very wary regarding the bob dylan one,
i came across ashes books written by clive batty and dylan books written by someone batty , that seemed more logical,
but then we can all find links for everything if we look hard enough.