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Advantages: Top English manager
Disadvantages: Self-centered read

...current manager. Sunderland, of course, made the final that year against Liverpool and the rest is history. But when the Nott's County chairman sold star striker Paul Rideout behind his back the nest season the trust was lost and he wished he had taken up the other offers. Neil falls out with all of his chairman. After a short assistant coach gig to help keep Torquay stay up, a dramatic 700 mile round trip and win at Carlisle the requisite, Huddersfeild ...
...low and behold, Plymouth, too, made the play-off final and returned to division one with another victory, surely the play off king now! Here Warnock explains why the Plymouth Argyle chairman was the latest to fall out with him; the petty reason given that Warnock had booked a 'slightly bigger suite' than his chairman's in the same hotel, Warnock informed it was a sackable offence. At one point the relationship was so bad; he charged Warnock for the ... Read review

Advantages: Interesting subject
Disadvantages: Questionable moral standpoint

Nicholas Farrell is an ex Daily Telegraph journalist who has settled in Italy. Specifically, he has settled in Predappio, the village where Mussolini was born and buried after his summary execution by partisans. I am not certain if he moved there in order to write this biography or as a result of his undoubted admiration for Mussolini but this certainly comes through in no uncertain terms. It is definitely surprising to find a biography of this ...
...senior partner in the dictators club are still too near historically for a proper perspective. The pain and destruction caused by their policies is still raw after sixty odd years. There are still plenty of people alive bearing scars from the sufferings inflicted by the German and Italian aggressions. However one of Farrell's arguments is precisely that Mussolini is inevitably, sometimes unfairly, lumped together with Hitler as evil incarnate. Mussolini's ... Read review

Advantages: Riveting, enthralling read.
Disadvantages: none.

...can achieve, will stay with you long after it has been put down. Miracle in the Andes (ISBN 0-75287-193-5), published by Orion Books, is only out in hardback at present, recommended retail £16.99. However, if you purchase it through www.play.com it can be yours for £7.99 including delivery. ... Read review

Advantages: Well written, easy to read
Disadvantages: Nothing new, its all been written before

Madonna - love her or loathe her, it seems that everyone has an opinion about her. With a career that now spans over 25 years her rise to fame from the early days when she first arrived in New York, penniless but with huge ambitions has been well documented many times. Madonna - Queen of the world by Douglas Thompson could at first glance quite easily be dismissed as yet another regurgitated account of Madonna's rise to fame but from the sleeve notes ...
...that everyone claims to already know everything there is to know about. Madonna has given many interviews throughout her life. Usually these interviews are carefully timed to coincide with her latest project, be it a new album, movie, book or other project and the new image that compliments the project is always flaunted to its maximum effect. When it comes to being interviewed Madonna always calls the shots, so how can anyone really expect to know ... Read review

Advantages: A true life account of a terrible accident.
Disadvantages: You don't always get a happy ending in real life.

The book I will now review contains probably one of the worst nightmares any parent could anticipate, the fact is a biography detailing the entire scenario makes it even more difficult and heart wrenching to read. The book I will now review is "Shattered", by Mavis Marsh and ghost written by Andrew Crofts. The book starts with the awful words of the doctor that has done the pre assessment on Mavis's son Mathew - "Your son will be a cabbage for ...
...a vegetable, or what-ever you want to call him". From that awful statement the story goes back to Mavis's ( the mother, writer and teller of this somewhat frightening story), childhood, first detailing her parents life, from jobs and home life, through to her father serving in the war and the untold horrors he had witnessed. From this she went on to her school life, until reading further into the book I never quite understood the purpose for all ... Read review