Base get started

by James Booth

"Base get started" will guide the reader to using Open Office Base or Libre Office Base to handle all sorts of data tracking tasks. How to build databases, tables, indexes, forms, and reports. Get headed in the right direction with this cross platform, (Windows, Apple MAC, Linux) free database application and this book.

48 pages, Paperback

First published September 3, 2013

About the author

James Booth has written extensively on Philip Larkin. Booth has recently retired from the Department of English at the University of Hull, where he had been Larkin's colleague for seventeen years.

The distinction between Booth's and Andrew Motion's biographies is, in Booth's own words:

"His (Motion's) biography is a magnificent achievement, but he is not on Larkin's wavelength when it comes to humour".

However, despite praising Motion's achievement in this regard, Booth adds that:

"I think Motion took Larkin too much at his own word. When Larkin said he was a sour brute who didn't treat his mother well, he believed him. In fact, Larkin wrote two letters to his mother every week for 40-odd years."

Booth's writing is defined by his admiration for one of Britain's most beloved poets of the twentieth-century:

"I have always loved his poetry and love is the right word"