Sentence examples for shrewd books from inspiring English sources

But fatally those same domestic details have nothing to do with why Elizabeth II, as queen, is interesting.Mr Marr, a former political editor of the BBC and author of some shrewd books on modern Britain, sets himself a more ambitious task: to explain what the queen's role and position tell us about her subjects.

This stimulating, scholarly and shrewd book is as rich in original ideas and accounts of unfamiliar aspects of World War I as it is energetic in its revisionism.

But if this disarmingly shrewd book were itself to become a film, the director couldn't be anyone with whom Taylor might have worked.

Give credit to David Yazbek, who wrote the beguiling music and lyrics (the spare and shrewd book is by Itamar Moses), for setting overwhelming boredom to a catchy tune.

We should be wary of drawing easy "moral analogies between noise and evil, quiet and good," Garret Keizer writes in his shrewd new book, "The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise" (PublicAffairs).

This shrewd, short book explains why.

Hornby's shrewd, melancholy book was "dad-lit" avant la lettre, and noticeably different from the rather more straightforwardly dramatic Man and Boy by Tony Parsons.

He has written a shrewd, insightful book, less a conventional work of history than a series of strobe-lighted snapshots of a historical era and its illustrious and less-than-illustrious leaders.

In addition to being a shrewd judge of books, Howard Davies, as director of the London School of Economics and former deputy governor of the Bank of England, is, unsurprisingly, very good with figures.

He's a novelist (and a talented one) who happened to become obsessed with the global banking crisis, and who has written a shrewd, bleakly funny book about it.

Anyone who tells you that Richard Greenberg's shrewd, streamlined new book for the Roundabout Theatre Company's exciting production of "Pal Joey" (well directed by Joe Mantello, at Studio 54) isn't as good as the old one hasn't read the original.