Non Fiction | Ruth Padel
Tigers in Red Weather
To hear Ruth discussing this book in depth with US radio talk show host Susan Frank, see http://www.wildaboutpets.net/info/innewsdetail.asp?nid=25&ID=1141 The book was shortlisted in USA, for the 2007 Kiriyama Prize, and in UK for the W H Smith First Travel Book Prize “A stunning plea for conservation and a stealthy excursion into the human heart” Oprah’s(read more…)
I’m a Man: Sex, Gods and Rock ‘n’ Roll
“Ruth Padel’s brilliant, wide-ranging I’m A Man makes the connections between rock and myth absolutely plain” – Ian Sansone, London Review of Books “She has earned a place on the high table of rock criticism alongside the likes of Greil Marcus. Eureka.” Daily Telegraph I’m a Man: Sex, Gods and Rock ‘n’ Roll Faber &(read more…)
Whom Gods Destroy
Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness Princeton University Press, 1995, pb £9.95 ISBN 0-691-02588-6 Buy ‘Whom Gods Destroy’ online at Amazon.co.uk You can order it from a UK bookshop or buy direct from UK distributers, John Wiley & Sons Distribution Centre, 1 Oldlands Way, Bognor Regis. W. Sussex, PO22 9SA tel.00 44(read more…)
In and Out of the Mind
In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self Princeton University Press, pb £10.95, ISBN 0-691-03766-3 UK Distributers are John Wiley & Sons Distribution Centre 1 Oldlands Way, Bornor Regis. W. Sussex, PO22 9SA tel.00 44 (0) 1243 779777, fax 0044 (0) 243 775 878. Buy ‘In and Out of the Mind’(read more…)