Books on Saturday Morning, October 2008
(most recent programme at the top)
25 October
Buy-ology: How Everything We Believe
About Why We Buy is Wrong
by Martin Lindstrom
(Random House, ISBN 9781847940124)
also author of Brand Sense (Free Press
ISBN: 9780743267847)
Waiter Rant: Behind the Scenes of Eating
Out
by A. Waiter
(John Murray, ISBN: 978-1-84854-007-1)
One Flew Into the Cuckoo's Egg
by Bill Oddie
(Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN:
978-0-340-95192-7)
Children's Books with Kate De
Goldi:
Kate De Goldi continues her discussion
about the influence of children's books editor Ursula Nordstrom, focusing this
week on the work of illustrator Garth Williams. Books under discussion will
include Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, Stuart Little by E.B. White, and A
cricket in Times Square by George Selden, all illustrated by Garth Williams (as
were all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books when reissued under Ursula Nordstrom,
and the first Frances book by Russell Hoban).
18 October
The Henson Case
by David Marr
(Text Publishing, ISBN: 9781921520037)
Kate's Klassic:
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
(Penguin Classics, ISBN: 978014044926)
Delicious
by Sophie Gray, with photography by Aaron McLean
(Random House, ISBN: 978-1-86941-910-3)
11 October
Alcohol can be a Gas! Fueling an
Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century
by David Blume
(International Institute for
Ecological Agriculture, ISBN: 978-0979043772)
www.alcoholcanbeagas.com
Beyond the Veil
by Pauline Grogan
(Penguin, ISBN: 0140261273)
A View from Within: the Story of
James Lynch
by Pauline Grogan
(Pauline Grogan Enterprises,
ISBN: 0476002117)
Antoine’s Friends, Food and Wine
by Tony Astle
(Random House, ISBN:
978-1-8679-054-7)
Kate De Goldi continues her discussion about the influence of children’s books editor Ursula Nordstrom. This week she looks at the work of Maurice Sendak, from his early collaborations in the 1960s as illustrator for authors such as Ruth Krauss, Charlotte Zolotow and Janice May Udry, to his later solo books (including Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, and Very Far Away). Other books under discussion may include titles by Ruth Krauss (A Hole is to Dig, The Carrot Seed, A Very Special House, Bears, I Want To Paint My Bathroom Blue, I'll Be You and You Be Me, The Growing Story), Charlotte Zolotow (Mr Rabbit and the Lovely Present, The Hating Book, I Like To Be Little, Someone New, When the Wind Stops), and Janice May Udry (The Moon Jumpers, Emily’s Autumn) - not all of them illustrated by Sendak. Kate De Goldi’s new novel, The 10pm Question (Longacre, ISBN: 9781877460203) has just been published.
4 October
Where Have All the Liberals Gone? Race, Class, and Ideals in America
by James Flynn
(Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521494311
Saffron: Food from the Central Otago Heartland
by Pete Gawron, with photographs by Aaron McLean and essays by Sam Neill and Grahame Sydney
(Godwit, ISBN: 9781869621339)