In this collection of autobiographical essays, award-winning short story writer Richard Grayson (WITH HITLER IN NEW YORK, I BRAKE FOR DELMORE SCHWARTZ) contemplates some seminal experiences: selling... More > his teenage drawings of Martin Luther King Jr. from a downtown Brooklyn clothing store in the mid-1960s; watching another well-known African-American minister, Louis Farrakhan, unwittingly play Cupid for his friends; avoiding an overly friendly Kevin Bacon on the streets of their Upper West Side neighborhood in the 1980s; childhood TV watching of such sitcoms as "Amos & Andy," "Beulah" and "The People's Choice"; dodging the Vietnam-era draft and hanging out with LSD-taking hippies in Greenwich Village; and making his 80-year-old Jewish grandmother one of Miami's most glamorous celebrities. These wry, funny, thoughtful pieces use the medium of memoir to explore American history of recent decades and attitudes toward race relations, sexual behavior, and popular culture in an entertainingly offbeat way.< Less
DOCTOR PROCTOR is a story of a country doctor who holds a monthly surgery every Monday in the village of Broughton-in-the-Vale.
Each character is delightfully explored and the doctor offers advice... More > to his patients. However, the patients have other ideas, and there is a twist to the tale...< Less
DOCTOR PROCTOR is a story of a country doctor who holds a monthly surgery every Monday in the village of Broughton-in-the-Vale.
Each character is delightfully explored and the doctor offers advice... More > to his patients. However, the patients have other ideas, and there is a twist to the tale...< Less
Dr Z (the book) is a story with four threads.
Dr Z (the person) winds down his practice and moves back across the country.
His friend Max completes his internship and tries not to fall in love.
In... More > his new office Dr Z collects a bundle of protest letters from his ex-patients who must now survive without him.
Dr Z records the story of his grandfather, the family patriarch after years of procrastination.
The four strands of the story share a medical theme, perhaps more.< Less
Jean Barnett is fat but happy. After all, she has always been fat and yet she was the first girl in her school form to be married. Her handsome husband is a successful journalist, kind and tolerant... More > of her size. Their three children, like all young children, are lovely.
But then Tom is promoted and they must move to South Africa and fat Jean finds herself surrounded by long leggy women, like greyhounds, who regard her with pity and scorn.
This is a 1970s South Africa where apartheid is still rife, a hot alien country. Jean finds life hateful. She knows no-one and for the first time in her life she finds herself sickened by her own appearance. She must get thin, must be like the rest, at any cost. Once she is thin all her problems will be solved.
But will they or will they be replaced by others far more insoluble?
This is a page-turner of a book. Read it!< Less
Jean Barnett is fat but happy. After all, she has always been fat and yet she was the first girl in her school form to be married. Her handsome husband is a successful journalist, kind and tolerant... More > of her size. Their three children, like all young children, are lovely.
But then Tom is promoted and they must move to South Africa and fat Jean finds herself surrounded by long leggy women, like greyhounds, who regard her with pity and scorn.
This is a 1970s South Africa where apartheid is still rife, a hot alien country. Jean finds life hateful. She knows no-one and for the first time in her life she finds herself sickened by her own appearance. She must get thin, must be like the rest, at any cost. Once she is thin all her problems will be solved.
But will they or will they be replaced by others far more insoluble?
This is a page-turner of a book. Read it!< Less
Synergy
Volume 4 No 1
Dr Who Special Edition
Overview and History
Theme Music
The Doctors
Other Doctors (Stage, Audio etc)
Regeneration
The Companions
Captain Jack
Sexuality and Doctor... More > Who
Adversaries of the Doctor
Reflections on the Revival of Doctor Who (2005 Onwards)
Inside the Tardis
Tom Baker
Plus lots of reviews< Less
Synergy Vol 4 No 1 Standard Edition
Overview and History
Theme Music
The Doctors
Other Doctors (Stage, Audio etc)
Regeneration
The Companions
Captain Jack
Sexuality and Doctor Who
Adversaries of the... More > Doctor
Reflections on the Revival of Doctor Who (2005 Onwards)
Inside the Tardis
Tom Baker
Plus lots of reviews< Less
When Hanover, an unsuspecting university student, stumbles upon a clandestine espionage operation gone sour, he is thrust into an international manhunt to locate the odious criminal Dr. What.... More > Hanover’s companions are a cantankerous pair: Glaydin, a ruthless, alien bounty hunter and her nemesis, Kriscilla, a feisty, alate mouse with the Secret Spy Association.
The mismatched team must learn to work together as Dr. What leaves a trail of enigmatic clues and bizarre portals that will send them on a trek around the world. Can Hanover accept his adventurous fate? Will Kriscilla learn to forgive her enemy? Who will Glaydin choose as her allies—a man and a mouse, or the most powerful villain of their time?< Less
