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Advantages: Beautiful photos, revealing, informative, sensitive
Disadvantages: None

...1960s. One of these is Audrey Hepburn, who I loved when I watched My Fair Lady on TV as a child. I was looking for a biography to buy about her, so looked through Amazon and Ebay for something suitable, as I wanted to learn more about her life. When I saw the front cover of this book, I knew I had to buy it. The picture is stunning – a young Audrey with short hair and a pink blouse, looking back towards the camera. Then I saw it was written by her ...
...bought Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit by Sean Hepburn Ferrer from Ebay for £5.99 (£9.49 with postage), but it is also available from Amazon for £9.12. Sean has also written a second book on his mother called The Audrey Hepburn Treasures, which I hope to buy soon. I read An Elegant Spirit and loved it. It is such a warm account of Audrey’s life and the memories her son shares really do give an insight into her as a person – and as a mother. While ... Read review

Advantages: Great detail, without lecturing you
Disadvantages: None.

...needed a new challenge. DVD Delirium Vol 1 Redux, focuses on weird and wonderful movies on DVD. Volume 1 was originally released in 2002. However with the changes in DVD formats and re-issues last year a re-edited version was released with more up to date information, in order to keep the book current. The book is edited by Nathaniel Thompson and features contributions from Tim Greaves, Stephen Thrower, Adrian Luther-Smith, David Flint, Marc Morris, ...
...illustrate the different releases on DVD around the world and the picture and sound formats. From there you get a brief synopsis of the movie, followed by the particular reviewer’s thoughts on the movie. Finally the reviewer goes through the different formats available around the world and even tells you where the hidden features are, in case you can’t find them. At the end the reviewer give an overall opinion of the movie. The reviewer will give ... Read review

Advantages: lots
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...based on the TV show Buffy The Vampire Slayer. It's called Coyote Moon and is cheaper than the more recent Buffy books. It's of a resonable size and has a nice cover. The story is very compelling and when reading it you really feel like you are in the story with the characters. For all the historians out their this book is based in Season 3 of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and the characters in the book include Cordelia 'Cordy' Chase, Xander Harris, ...
...to give too much away but it involves Willow and Xander falling for two people - a hunky boy and an irresistible young woman who work on the carnival which is in Sunnydale for a while. It also involves the appearance of Coyotes, and the workers at the carnival are more than they seem. A very interesting book. ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent character profiles, episode guide, recipes
Disadvantages: None

...favourite American television shows is Desperate Housewives, like Lost I have been hooked on this programme since the very beginning. The show focuses around four women; Susan, Bree, Gabrielle and Lynette who all live on Wisteria Lane. The series begins with the shocking suicide of their close friend Mary Alice Young. Mary Alice provides the narration for the show as she watches what her friends are now up to. It's a comedy drama with a lot of twists ...
...feature of the book. DESPERATE HUSBANDS Now obviously the show is focused mainly on the women, but we can't forget about the husbands! This section is basically the character profiles for the men, there are also interviews with each actor. THE KIDS OF WISTERIA LANE And then of course there is the children! Again these are characters profiles in the same format as before THE HOUSEGUESTS These aren't as detailed as the other character profiles ... Read review

Advantages: Great for big simpsons fans
Disadvantages: more magazine than book, for simpson fans only

The simpsons Forever (a complete guide to our favorite family continued) is a great book RRP £9.99 (purchased from Waterstones) 95 pages long, including indexes etc. Created by Matt Groening and edited by Scott M. Gimple. Published by HarperCollins Entertainment Cover shows bart holding a book of the simpsons a complete guide to our favorite family (see picture at the bottom) This book includes all new more characters, episodes and secret jokes ...
...A typical page in the book shows an episode title, details of what happened and the story line, followed by comments from characters, things you may have missed and the chalkboard gag. On the side of every page is details of a (new) character featured in the programme, eg. who they are, what they do, and how they behave etc showing their quote in a speech bubble. Each page has great pictures from the episode in context and makes this more of a magazine ... Read review