Category Archives: books

Do you still have the words to say what you mean?

April 16, 2007 – 9:11 pm

RIP Kurt Vonnegut, most famous as the author of Slaughterhouse Five, a novel published in 1969 during the height of American protests about Vietnam and the futility of war. The novel was inspired by his experiences as a prisoner of war sent to the apparent safety of Dresden, when it was razed by British/US forces […]

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Book review “Anonymous Lawyer - a novel”

February 11, 2007 – 12:45 pm

Jeremy Blachman emailed Geeklawyer’s co-blogger Ruthie to ask her if she’d care to review his new book ‘Anonymous Lawyer - a novel‘. Geeklawyer was a tad peeved - it’s his fucking blog he thought, why the hell ask the hired help if they want to get the perks: the free lunches, the gift boxes, the […]

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Fact stranger than fiction..

November 6, 2006 – 6:49 pm

A Californian prosecutor has been removed from prosecuting a rape case as the facts of her novel too closely mirror the facts of the case.
Joyce Dudley describes the heroine of her novel, a prosecutor named Jordon Danner, as having
“the poise and sexiness of a dancer, the brains of a scholar and the protective passion of […]

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Book review

October 4, 2006 – 6:16 pm

I’ve reviewed the book “International Libel & Privacy” by Charles Glasser Jnr & published by Bloomberg.
It is available from Bloomberg’s bookstore, or from Amazon here.

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Don’t tell Mum I work on the rigs, she thinks I’m a piano player in a whorehouse

July 2, 2006 – 6:34 pm

This is the newly published account of Paul Carter a Scot/Ozzy rigger who spent his whole life working on the rigs and about the extremes to which people and companies will go in their pursuit of black gold. It’s last frontier stuff: in a risk averse world where takeaway coffee cups are endorsed with “warning […]

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Why so stupid?

May 1, 2006 – 8:11 pm

Ruthie is intrigued to read in Private Eye that Edward de Bono is offering a prize of 1000 pounds for the best letter written before 26th May 2006 in agreement with his latest publication Why so stupid? How the human race has never really learned to think.

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Harry Potter - Injunctions and other incantations

July 16, 2005 – 10:32 pm

You may well have read that a Canadian bookstore released the latest Harry Potter story “the Half-Blood Prince” to a number of its customers somewhat early. The customers almost certainly were entirely innocent in this as they probably knew nothing of the PR plans for a global coordinated release. They probably bought the book in […]

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