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Angels and Demons: A Biography of Robbie Williamsby Paul ScottISBN 0233000135 (0-233-00013-5)
Hardcover, Andre Deutsch
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Bass Guitar: From Basics to Bassistby Paul ScottISBN 0007261144 (0-00-726114-4)
Softcover, Harper Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bass Guitar: From Basics to Bassist'Book summary:[via]Do you want to play bass in a band, but don't know where to start? Want to emulate your heroes in the garage? This fully illustrated book will give you all the skills and confidence you need to become a bassist and includes a 60-minute CD of tracks to play along to. Paul Scott offers expert advice and information on choosing and looking after your instrument, learning to play your first tunes, understanding notation and theory, fitting into a band, and playing in the style of legendary bassists.More editions of Bass Guitar: From Basics to Bassist:
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The Day of the Scorpionby Paul ScottISBN 009947882X (0-09-947882-X)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Day of the Scorpion'Book summary:In The Day of the Scorpion, Scott draws us deeper in to his epic of India at the close of World War II. With force and subtlety, he recreates both private ambition and perversity, and the politics of an entire subcontinent at a turning point in history.[via]
As the scorpian, encircled by a ring of fire, will sting itself to death, so does the British raj hasten its own destruction when threatened by the flames of Indian independence. Brutal repression and imprisonment of India's leaders cannot still the cry for home rule. And in the midst of chaos, the English Laytons withdraw from a world they no longer know to seek solace in denial, drink, and madness. -
A Division of the Spoilsby Paul ScottISBN 0099478838 (0-09-947883-8)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Division of the Spoils'Book summary:After exploiting India's divisions for years, the British depart in such haste that no one is prepared for the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1947. The twilight of the raj turns bloody. Against the backdrop of the violent partition of India and Pakistan, A Division of the Spoils illuminates one last bittersweet romance, revealing the divided loyalties of the British as they flee, retreat from, or cling to India.[via] -
The Jewel in the Crownby Paul ScottISBN 0226743403 (0-226-74340-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jewel in the Crown'Book summary:"Ah no, waste no pity on young Kumar. Whatever he got while in the hands of the police he deserved. And waste no pity on her either. She also got what she deserved."
August 1942. World War II is reaching its apex, with the conflict consuming almost all of Asia and Europe. In Southeast Asia, the Japanese have driven the British army out of Burma and are threatening India, where Britain's beleaguered forces find themselves facing an increasingly hostile Indian populace tired of decades of unfulfilled promises of freedom. On a dark monsoonal night in the town of Mayapore, amid an outbreak of anti-British rioting, a gang of Indian men rape a young British woman. Through this rape, we are introduced to a cast of characters engulfed and subsequently carried away by the storm of events. Paul Scott's The Jewel in the Crown is part historical novel, part mystery, part love story, part allegory. But to reduce it to any of these elements is to miss its irony, poignancy, and beauty. Full of complex characters and rich in atmosphere and symbolism, this is a novel that works on many different levels.
The events unfold through the eyes of a varied cast of characters--both British and Indian--united by their inability to escape the straightjacket of race and social roles, no matter their class, education, or political views. This is particularly excruciating for the rape victim and the young Indian man accused of the crime. These two are drawn to each other by their alienation from the roles they are expected to play. Englishwoman Daphne Manners finds herself increasingly estranged from her countrymen, while Hari Kumar, an Indian who has lived in Britain for all but two years of his life and is so anglicized that he doesn't even speak Hindi, can't abide his native land. Their struggle with the identities and constraints that society imposes on them and the manifestations of their conflict form the core of the novel, providing the timelessness and richness that make it one of the great novels of the 20th century.
The Jewel in the Crown, originally published in 1966, is the first of the Raj Quartet, the sweeping epic that looks at the collapse in the 1940s of British rule in India. It was followed by The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, and A Division of Spoils. --Jonathan King [via]
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The Making of The Jewel in the Crown: The Granada Television Series Based on Paul Scott's Raj Quartet.by Paul ScottISBN 0246120894 (0-246-12089-4)
Softcover, Granada Publishing
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The Raj Quartetby Paul Scott , Hilary SpurlingISBN 0307263967 (0-307-26396-7)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
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With a New Introduction by Hilary Spurling
The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Second World War and the growing campaign for Indian independence from Britain.
In The Towers of Silence, Barbie Batchelor, a British missionary and schoolteacher, befriends a British family and witnesses the trial of Hari Kumar, an Indian man accused of assaulting his beloved Daphne Manners, while observing the dangerously cruel Captain Ronald Merrick, Haris nemesis. In A Division of the Spoils, the chaos of the departure of the British and the fervor of Partition wreaks havoc upon the twilight of the Raj and the end of a era.
On occasions unsparing in its study of personal dramas and racial differences, the Raj Quartet is at all times profoundly humane, not least in the authors capacity to identify with a huge range of characters. It is also illuminated by delicate social comedy and wonderful evocations of the Indian scene, all narrated in luminous prose.
The other two novels in the Raj Quartet, The Jewel in the Crown and The Day of the Scorpion, are also available from Everymans Library. [via]-
Robbie Williams: Angels & Demons The Unauthorized Biographyby Paul ScottISBN 0233000461 (0-233-00046-1)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robbie Williams: Angels & Demons The Unauthorized Biography'Book summary:This authorative biography of Robbie Williams tells the complete story of his phenomenal journey to the top. Covering his childhood in stoke-On-Trent, his boy band years with Take That, his battle wit drinking & drugs & his troubled love life - to his current position of King of Pop, with a record breaking $200 million deal with EMI. [via]
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Robbie Williams: Angels and Demonsby Paul ScottISBN 0233000720 (0-233-00072-0)
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Robbie Williams Angels and Demons Com/Soonby Paul ScottISBN 0233000216 (0-233-00021-6)
Hardcover, Andre Deutsch
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Robbie Williams: Facing the Ghostsby Paul ScottISBN 0233001794 (0-233-00179-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robbie Williams: Facing the Ghosts'Book summary:[via]A new updated and expanded edition, this definitive unauthorized biography includes coverage of Robbie Williams's new life in L.A., the album Intensive Care, his T-Mobile deal, and recent performances, including the show-stopping LIVE8. Covering his childhood in Stoke-on-Trent; his boy band years with Take That; his battle with drink, drugs, and his sexuality; his often-troubled love life; and his current position as the undisputed King of Pop, sealed with the record-breaking GBP 80 million deal with EMI, the biggest ever in British recording history. Based on exclusive interviews with those closest to Robbie and with previously unpublished photos from the family archive, this warts and all account of his phenomenal journey to the top is a must-have for all Robbie fans.More editions of Robbie Williams: Facing the Ghosts:
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Six Days In Maraporeby Paul ScottISBN 0226743195 (0-226-74319-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Days In Marapore'Book summary:In this swiftly paced and lyrical novel about British expatriates at the time of Indian independence, Paul Scott grapples with the themes of race, possession, and history that dominate all four novels of his masterpiece, The Raj Quartet, especially The Jewel in the Crown. As always, Scott fills his book with vivid characters: the seductive, bigoted war widow; the sophisticated, wily Hindu politician; and the athletic young American who only gradually begins to understand the legacy of pain and hatred veiling the woman he has come to rescue. Set against the backdrop of a nation in violent transitiona climate of exhilaration and shifting loyaltiesSix Days in Marapore unfolds amidst the possibility of reconciliation, freedom, and healing.[via]
"Scott's brief characterizations are as important to Six Days in Marapore as the basic plot . . . This is not primarily a novel of India, but rather more of frightened foreigners living there at the end of their era."New York Times
"Intense, abrasive, the many conflicts and telltale stigmata of Hindu and Moslem, white and off white, give this its uncertain temper and certain suspense."Kirkus ReviewsMore editions of Six Days In Marapore:
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Staying Onby Paul ScottISBN 0226743497 (0-226-74349-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Staying On'Book summary:In this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating her husband, Lucy claims a degree of independence herself. Eloquent and hilarious, she and Tusker act out class tensions among the British of the Raj and give voice to the loneliness, rage, and stubborn affection in their marriage. Staying On won the Booker Prize in 1977 and was made into a motion picture starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in 1979.[via]
"Staying On far transcends the events of its central action. . . . [The work] should help win for Scott . . . the reputation he deservesas one of the best novelists to emerge from Britain's silver age."Robert Towers, Newsweek
"Scott's vision is both precise and painterly. Like an engraver cross-hatching in the illusion of fullness, he selects nuances that will make his characters take on depth and poignancy."Jean G. Zorn, New York Times Book Review
"A graceful comic coda to the earlier song of India. . . . No one writing knows or can evoke an Anglo-Indian setting better than Scott."Paul Gray, Time
"Staying On provides a sort of postscript to [Scott's] deservedly acclaimed The Raj Quartet. . . . He has, as it were, summoned up the Raj's ghost in Staying On. . . . It is the story of the living death, in retirement, and the final end of a walk-on character from the quartet. . . . Scott has completed the task of covering in the form of a fictional narrative the events leading up to India's partition and the achievement of independence in 1947. It is, on any showing, a creditable achievement."Malcolm Muggeridge, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Staying On:
Tony and Cherie: Behind the Scenes in Downing Streetby Paul ScottISBN 0283070269 (0-283-07026-9)
Hardcover, Sidgwick & Jackson
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The Towers of Silence: A Novelby Paul ScottISBN 0226743438 (0-226-74343-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Towers of Silence: A Novel'Book summary:India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel façade of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary, Barbara Batchelor, bears witness to the connections between many human dramas; the love between Daphne Manner and Hari Kumar; the desperate grief an old teacher feels for an India she cannot rescue; and the cruelty of Captain Ronald Merrick, Susan Layton's future husband.[via]More editions of The Towers of Silence: A Novel:
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