Bruce Robinson, Author Overlook Press $24.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-87951-914-8
A dysfunctional family in an English coastal town of the late 1950s achieves chaotic free-fall in this mordantly comic, rowdy first novel (published last year in England) about an unloved, neglected boy's furious search for identity. English...
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Bruce Robinson, Author, Sophie Windham, Illustrator , illus. by Sophie Windham. Bloomsbury $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58234-769-1
This endearing nonsense tale from a British husband-and-wife team concerns an unknown gray object found sitting in the village square. "Maybe it wants plugging in?" one villager says. "Look at that nozzle on him.... What's that for?&#
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Bruce Robinson. Harper, $35 (864p) ISBN 978-0-06-229637-5
Robinson's thought-provoking but flawed study of Jack the Ripper falls short of his goal of clearly establishing that lyricist Michael Maybrick, a "superstar who created some of the most celebrated music of the Victorian epoch," led a murderous...
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