Gill Dickinson

Advantages: Full of great 'crafty' ideas for children of different ages.
Disadvantages: None

...been had! ~ Other books by Gill Dickinson ~ Gill Dickinson has written a wide range of books relating to arts and crafts for children, here are some of them: * Gift Wrapping and Greeting Cards * The Only Kid's Party Book You'll Ever Need * Creative Gift Wrapping * Mask Making: Get started in a new craft with easy-to-follow instructions * Fancy Dress ~ Price ~ My hardcover ISBN: 0-600-61240-6 was £14.99 but cheaper paperbacks are available from amazon.co.uk... Read review

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Advantages: Thought provoking...
Disadvantages: ...hm, I'm thinking about it....

...If a happily married woman lies awake at night next to her husband visualising another man making love to her, is she being unfaithful to her husband or just indulging in fantasy? Thought provoking questions similar to this are addressed in ‘The Lovers’: a novel that weaves love’s many guises into an impenetrable tapestry which perfectly expresses the pleasure and torment injected into a person who is tempted to bite into the forbidden fruit that is carnal desire. The result is a judicious cross-examination of ‘love’, ‘sex’ and ‘happiness’ from male and female perspectives written without bias. Set in modern day Paris, we are introduced to Gilles and Pauline who, after he watches her drop her son off at school, plucks up the courage to ask Pauline to meet him for a clandestine dinner and inspite of herself she agrees. Until... Read review

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Advantages: Stunning insights into unknown places
Disadvantages: Could do without the laddish element

...Not being a Times reader, and even if I were: not being a TV or restaurant critique reader, I may never have come across A.A. Gill - except maybe via Jeremy Clarkson (in whom I take a shameful juvenile delight!). Mr Gill, I'm sure, is suitably albeit insignificantly pleased that I came to his words without his friend & sometime co-author's assistance. Jeremy, I'm equally sure, couldn't give a whatsit. "AA Gill is away" is a collection of traveller's tales from the years 1995 to 2001. As reproduced magazine pieces they are necessarily short, and self-contained. They are, to steal a word from my musician friends, tight. They are full of humour and rancour and personal insight and - just occasionally - incomprehension. They are unapologetically personal, political, take-it-or-leave-it-this-is-my-take-on-it journalism. And some... Read review

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