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[[Category:New Reviews|Autobiography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove --> ==Autobiography== <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Johnson0241636604|title=A Diary of The LadyTrading Game: My First Year as EditorA Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=34.5
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|summary=Along with most If you were to bring up an image of my contemporaries I've never read 'The Lady' except once when looking for an au pair job a city banker in my student daysyour mind, and that, it turns out, is the problemyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Before Rachel Johnson was appointed in June 2009 A hoodie and jeans replaces the average age of pin-stripe suit and his background is the readership East End, where he was 75familiar with violence, the circulation was dropping poverty and the magazine was haemorrhaging moneyinjustice. The Budworth family, proprietors of 'The Lady' since it There was founded 125 years ago, chose son and heir Ben Budworth no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to turn the magazine's fortunes around before it foldedLondon School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He asked Rachel Johnson also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be editorstupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490674</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Brand1529395224|title=Can't Stand Up For Sitting DownLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I am Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a big fan of Jo Brand GP and I love her inimitable droll style of comedy. I always enjoy her stand up performances as well as her appearances Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on my favourite panel programme QIhis father's life. As When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a consequence I family friend who was really interested to read her second autobiographical book – Cana vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't Stand Up for Sitting Down- as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. As she states at the beginning though If anything, this is not really an autobiography but a collection of thoughts and experiences that have resulted due he'd wanted to her life as be a stand up comedian. The book covers the period from her first professional gig up to the present dayfootballer. Her early life and career in psychiatric nursing are covered in her earlier book [[Look Back in Hunger by Jo Brand|Look Back in Hunger]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755355261</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ellen MacArthurEdel Rodriguez|title=Full CircleWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey
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|genre=AutobiographyGraphic Novels|summary=ItWe's some years since I read [[Taking on the World by Ellen MacArthur|Taking on the World]] re in childhood, and – against all expectations thoroughly enjoyed itwe're in Cuba. I'm not a sailor The revolution has happened, and don't have Castro, first thought of as a great deal saviour of interest in yacht racing – but what appealed to me immediately was the character of someone who was determined country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to let create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren'anything'' stand t in the way happiest of her ambitionsplaces here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. My only disappointment came later as I felt that The mother gets the couple jobs with the book had been written too soon – I really wanted party to know about '''that''' big race and what ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you do with out of the future when you've done everything. How lucky did I feel when ''Full Circle'' landed on my desk?kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718148630</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Davies1035025299|title=Teenage Revolution: Growing Up in Went to London, Took the 80sDog|author=Nina Stibbe|rating=3.54
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|summary=Born in 1966, Alan Davies grew up in Essex, the son of Nina Stibbe is returning to London for a staunchly Conservative-voting father and a mother who died of cancer when he was only sixsabbatical after being away for twenty years. It was a childhood dominated She's been at first by Victoria'Citizen Smiths smallholding in Leicestershire which isn' and the other TV sitcomst all that conducive to writing, as there'Starsky and Hutch', 'Grease', Barry Sheene, the Barron Knights, and Debbie Harrys always something smallholding happening - as you might expect. The book begins at 1978, ''other side of the year I started venturing out more'', and finishes decision was sealed when a room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) at 1988, when he graduated from Kent University to find that stand-up comedy could be an alternative to finding a job where he would have to do what he was toldvery reasonable rent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141041803</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark OatenChristopher Fowler|title=Screwing UpWord Monkey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Like John Profumo and others, Mark Oaten will probably be remembered for It's the wrong reasons. It was first of August in the episode which made him for middle of a while cool wet summer in East Anglia. I decided not to swim at the country's Nopool in favour of going to my beach hut. The weather closed in, rain arrived, and I decided not to do that either. 1 paparazzi target When I finished reading this book, I realised it was because (a) I wanted to finish reading this book and which as he recounts in his Prologue(b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shack. No spoiler alerts, when his the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 'world was crashing down' – and it hardly needs recounting in detailhis first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. Yet when all There is something very strange about being made to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is said dying, and done, this you know he actually is a very livelyat that point, readable, sometimes quite poignant memoir from one of the men whose career at Westminster began and ended with the Blair and Brown yearsbecause he does. Throughout there is an admirable absence of self-pityHe did.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849540071</amazonuk>0857529625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony FitzjohnKit De Waal|title=Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Lions Without Warning and for AfricaOnly Sometimes|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Maybe As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it's just my rock-chick nature , “They f*** you up, your mum and dad/ They may not mean to, but "Born Wild" feels a little clunky as titles go. Surely it should have been "Born To Be Wild"? Perhaps they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and the bonds that phrase has been copyrighted and wasn't availablebind family. Or maybe Fitzjohn was deliberately referencing Joy Adamson's This book "Born Free" – since much of is a memoir focussing on the early part author’s formative years as a teenager living in a lower class area of his own time Birmingham. Her father is from St. Kitts in Africa was spent with the Caribbean and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her husband Georgefamily for becoming pregnant by and marrying a black man. "Born To Be Wild" would have been more accurate as wellThis intersectionality plays a large role in the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her race, her class and her gender. Many Her parents loom large and are written with care, love, and the kind of the animals we meet weren't born wild at all – though anger only a good few of them got child can express to live out the remainder of their days and die that wayparents.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670918911</amazonuk>1472284852
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith Summers1638485216|title=The Badness of King GeorgeBlack, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds
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|summary=People know how to get round me: they offer me a book and then say 'It's about a dog' and like Pavlov's canine I say 'OhCorruption is not department, lovely'gender or race specific. And so it was It has everything to do with The Badness of King Georgecharacter. George is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and I have to quibble with the title – superb as it is – because George is not badPeriod. If anything he's badly done by as Judith Summers, plagued by empty nest syndrome when her son goes to university, decides to foster rescue dogs. Poor George has absolutely no idea what she's let him in for. And nor has Judith.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141046473</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve DunoBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=Last Dog On The HillI May Be Wrong
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|genre=PetsAutobiography|summary=Driving through northern California Steve Duno found a puppy by When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it doesn't really matter how the side rest of the roadworld responds to your book. He was flea-bittenI know, tic infestedhaving read the book in question, emaciated and suffering from an infectionthat Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. His father was a Rottweiler He knows (and his mother a German Shepherd - both were guard dogs at core so do I) that it matters very much how the local marijuana farm. When Steve whistled rest of the dog came world responds to him and this book, because it tells the truth as it's no exaggeration to say that is, in that moment his life changed. He'd always wanted a dog, but hadn't been able to have one as a child. There was a moment's indecision at the side of the road – and then Lou became Steve's dogearly 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330520024</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Perringareth_steel|title=West: A Journey Through the Landscapes of LossNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=3.54|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Where would you go if the love of your life, and your son, both died within I don't often begin my reviews with a short few months of each other? Jim Perrin headed West - to the scraggly patches of land off Ireland, closer to the setting sun, nearer warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to the further horizon, beyond the noise, information and opinion of humanity. Of course, that question could also be answered in a more metaphoric wayappropriate. Jim went inward, before coming outward. He suffered - "involuntarily, the tears have come. Who would have thought that death would release so many.." He also, although he would probably hate me for saying it, went on Stories of a "psycho-geographical ramble" - both in vet's life, have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and in making this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843546116</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=G Willow Wilson|title=The Butterfly Mosque: A Young WomanSmall''s Journey to Love and Islam|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=This memoir is told in the first person so straight away there is a connection with the reader. The story starts - not in Egypt - but in the USA. Willow (lovely name) says she's 'Never Work With Animals''in is definitely not the market companion volume you've been looking for . As a philosophy.TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' And in this search she is extremely thoroughlacked realism, as do other similar programmes. She looks at mainstream religions - Christianity, Buddhism to name but two and puts them under Gareth Steel says that the microscope, so to speak. She dismisses all of them before settling on Islam. It appears to offer what she book is not suitable for younger readers and - after, what she is looking for, reading - I agree with him. He says that enigmatic thing. But also, therehe's some little twist which helps make her mind up. But not before she digs deep and seeks answers written it to complex inform and awkward questionsprovoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. She reads It deals with some uncomfortable and researches Islam and finds out surprising factsdistressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, which she shares with the reader. Willow is well-read although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and well-educatedeating. She seems set for a good career of her choice on American soil. Why not settle for that? But she's set on travel to the Middle East come what may.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843548283</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna Del ConteDave Letterfly Knoderer|title=Risotto with NettlesSpeedy: Hurled Through Havoc
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|summary= People who are serious about food will know How to summarise the name life of Anna Del Conte. She's Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a serious writer about Italian food but not someone who has courted fame via the television screen. You'll have met her in places like 'Sainsbury's Magazinereview of his memoir? Do you know, I really don' or read some of her brilliant writing about the food of her native Italyt think I can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099505991</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Woodsford0008350388|title=Dear Mr Bigelow: A Transatlantic Friendship|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Meet Mister Bigelow. He's elderly, living alone on Long Island, New York, with some health problems but more than enough family and friends We Need to get him by, and still a very active interest in yachting, regattas and more. Meet, too, Frances Woodsford. She's reaching middle-age, living with her brother and mum in Bournemouth, and working for the local baths as organiser of events, office lackey and more. I suggest you do meet them, although neither ever met the other. Despite this they kept up a brisk and lively conversation about all aspects of life, from the late 1940s until his death at the beginning of the 60s. And as a result comes this book, of heavily edited highlights, which opens up a world of social history and entertaining diary-style comment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099542293</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTalk About Money|author=Peter Beaumont|title=The Secret Life of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict Otegha Uwagba
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|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Peter Beaumont ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is the Foreign Affairs editor at The Observerto be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts... '' He joined the paper in 1989 and has spent much of the intervening time dealing with the kind of 'foreign affairs' that is better described as We Need to Talk About Money'war reporting'. by Otegha Uwagba 'The Secret Life of War' is a distillation 0.7% of his years English Literature GCSE students in the field. It is England study a book ill-served by both its title and its cover, except maybe insofar as both might serve to sneak it onto the bookshelves a writer of those who really need to read it, but probably wouldncolour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller''t choose to do so were it more accurately wrapped.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520982</amazonuk>}}29 June 2021
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Jackson0571365884|title=MoonwalkMy Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett
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|summary=Michael Jackson's autobiographyGeorgia Pritchett has always been anxious, based on tape-recorded conversations with his editor Shaye Ereheart, was first published in 1988even as a child. This new edition has an introduction by Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Records and his original mentor, and an afterword by Areheart She would worry about how whether the book monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was writtenthe sort of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far between. The main part of the book is On a visit to a straight reprint of the originaltherapist, as an adult, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with no updating at all. Intriguingly, although Gordyher it was suggested that she should write it down and ''s four pages refer to My Mess is protégé a Bit of a Life: Adventures in the past tense, calling him Anxiety''is the greatest entertainer that ever lived', Areheart's writing, and also the cover, refer to him in the present. No reference anywhere is made result - or so we are given to his untimely deathbelieve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099547953</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Captain William WellsDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=A Sailor's TalesTattoo on my Brain|rating=43.5
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|summary=Captain William Wells was born in New Zealand where his father ran Alzheimer's is a successful carpentry business, but his heart wasn't in following his father into the family firm or in most disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of the lessons at schoolself. He was an enthusiastic sportsman but what enthralled him most were the ships sailing out of Wellington harbourI have been directly affected by this cruel disease, which he could see from his bedroom windowas have many. Without his parents' knowledge he applied for Your memories and personality worn away like a scholarship which allowed six boys each year to travel to statue over time affected the UK elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and undertake their basic nautical trainingyour dignity. Billy Wells, This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who previously had only got 2% in his English exam (was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his name was spelled correctly) had the second highest score journey in the country and was soon ''A Tattoo on his way to Englandmy Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>095629040X</amazonuk>1108838936
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey
|author=Hannah Jackson
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|summary=''I want the image of a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much to ask.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Stewart0008333173|title=Three Ways to Capsize a BoatHungry: An Optimist AfloatA Memoir of Wanting More|author=Grace Dent
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|summary=Books about sailing fall into two sorts: those written by authors who I'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one of the judges on ''Masterchef''. You know what they are talking about, (though sometimes they donthat you't convey it too well) and those who don't have a clue, but like re going to think they doget an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of the time. You also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all that good food in front of her. Well, Chris Stewart may have started I've often wondered about the woman behind the book with media image and ''Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'' is a light stunning read which will make you laugh and frothy touch as a novice sailor, but he ends up with the credentials of an Ancient Marinerbreak your heart in equal measures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956003842</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Wolff1504321383|title=The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=There can be few people who are unaware of the name of Rupert Murdoch. Over four decades he's built News International into a seventy billion dollar corporation from its original Australian base. His position in the UK media is such that he's courted by politicians Single, Again, and has what many believe to be an excessive amount of power for someone who is not elected Again, and is not even a UK citizen. He's now expanding into Southeast Asia and in his eightieth year it's still difficult to imagine when – or where – he will stop.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523523</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAgain|author=Neil MacFarquhar|title=The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy BirthdayLouisa Pateman
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|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=''What are the chances of change in the Middle East?You can'' is the question central to this book. Since Neil MacFarquhar spent thirteen years wandering the length t be happy and breadth of the Islamic stronghold of the Middle East, I feel inclined to believe his in-depth assessmentfulfilled on your own. In descriptive and reasoned terms, he identifies conservative forces which predominate in the region, primarily the religious and political machinery which condemns liberalization and modernizationYou are not complete until you find a man''. This discussion of attempts to promote change, for example by individual dissidents or the media, is strengthened in the second half of the book by detailed case studies of six nations with particular reference to their readiness and motivation for change. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1586488112</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa LynchSakinu Ahronglong|title=The C-WordHunter School
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|summary=In the beginning was the word, closely followed by the internet. The two combined flyleaf to form the wonder this little collection tells us that it is blogging, and when that took off and people wanted a more concrete and permanent record, books quickly followedwork of fiction. Perhaps thatThat's possibly misleading. I am not ''exactly'' how the quote goes, but sure whether it's close enough. Breast cancer at twenty eight is not just scary and unusual. For journalist Lisa, "fiction" in the sense that Ahronglong made it's downright inconvenient. But, when a stage three tumour bulges out of her booball up, she decides to document her subsequent fight against the big C (or, whether it is as she affectionately calls it, the blurb goes on to say ''The Bullshitrecollections, folklore and autobiographical stories'') online for all to see. The [http://alrighttit It feels like the latter.blogspotIt feels like the stories he tells about his experiences as a child, as an adolescent, as an adult are real and true.com/ blog] was But memory is a successfickle thing, and maybe poetic licence has taken over here and there and maybe calling it garnered some famous fans ([[:Category:Stephen Fry|Stephen Fry]], among others) fiction means that its safer and a book offer followedtherefore more people will read it. This is the result More people should.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099547546</amazonuk>1999791282
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ngugi wa Thiong'o1544641923|title=Dreams in a Time of WarAmbassadors Do It After Dinner|author=Sandra Aragona
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|summary=The interest in It's tempting to think that the diplomatic life is privileged and luxurious. It might be privileged, but family connections tell me that it is far from luxurious. Now you're not going to get many ambassadors telling you what it's really like (it's not ''diplomatic'' to do so, you know), but the lives of unfortunate children has created diplomatic spouse, the publishing phenomenon nicknamed accompanying baggage, well, that's an entirely different matter. She (and it still usually is a 'misery memoirsshe') can tell us exactly what goes on. Happily for readers }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241446732|title=Our House is on Fire: Scenes of Ngugi wa Thiong'o’s Dreams a Family and a Planet in a Time of War memories Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the author’s often difficult childhood are presented as a tale parenting of triumph their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and empowerment rather than anger talking and selfher sister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with what was happening. In such circumstances, it's natural to seek a solution close to home, but eventually, it became clear to the family that they were ''burned-out people on a burned-pityout planet''. If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553776</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gervase Phinn191280493X|title=Road to the Dales: The Story Coming of a Yorkshire LadAge|author=Danny Ryan
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|summary=As ''He began writing novels and poetry at the age of twelve, but it was to take him a teacher currently anticipating (I won't say looking forward further forty-eight years to!) an OFSTED inspection, school inspectors aren't generally my favourite peoplerealise that he wasn’t very good at either. I'll make an exception Consistently unpublished for Gervase Phinn, thoughall that time, as heremains a shining example of hope over experience...'s entertained me for many hours with his previous books on his time in the Dales doing the job. I was expecting his memoirs of his childhood to be equally entertaining – and feel slightly letdown, if I'm honest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718149114</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Abby Lee190874572X|title=Girl With a One Track Mind: Exposed: Further Revelations of a Sex Blogger Letters from Tove|author=Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)
|rating=5
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|summary=Abby Lee is back with Back at the beginning of the century, I went on holiday to Nepal. I met a brand new book wonderful Finnish woman and we became sort-of-friends. I can't remember if it was on that holiday or a later one that's sure Paula told me I really had to bring her readers closer to her than they've ever been beforeread Tove Jansson. For those who missed the media spectacle I do know that it was four years later that surrounded her first bookI finally acquired an English translation of The Summer Book, and that I eagerly awaited the ''Sort Of'Girl With a One Track Mind' followed twelve months in translations of the life rest of Jansson'Abby Lee', a film runner who became an internet sensation after starting a blog in 2004 detailing her sexual exploits s work and thoughts. The book became an immediate success with men and women alike and earned Abby a couple of thousand more hits devoured them as soon as I could get my hands on her blog ever daythem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330509691</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leslie Kenton1908745819|title=Love Affair: The Memoir of a Forbidden Father-daughter RelationshipSurfacing |author=Kathleen Jamie|rating=4.5
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|summary=For some yearsSometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so, unless it turns out that we didn't like the book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I had been aware was told why. The blurb speaks of Leslie Kentonthe author considering 's books on healthy living'an older, and also less tethered sense of Stan Kentonherself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's work as not a jazz bandleader, though bad description of where I had never made the connection until nowam. This family memoir reveals all about Add to that my love of the natural world, of those aspects of the famous father poetic and later-to-be-famous daughterlyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it is a disturbing talefall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091910536</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Taylor1906852472|title=The VillageWild Child: Growing Up a Nomad|author=Ian Mathie|rating=35
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|summary=Two other authorsFor Ian Mathie fans there is good and bad news. Ian has come up with the missing link in his narrative, [[:Category:Miss Read|Miss Read]] and [[:Category:Rebecca Shaw|Rebecca Shaw]]the story of a very unusual childhood (yes, have already purloined the village for their ownvery years that made him the amazing man he became). I so wish The bad – well it's hardly news two years later – is that the publishers had chosen a more distinctive title for this reprintbook is published posthumously. ItAs always, it's beautifully written, with many exciting moments. What I most enjoyed was the Irishness feeling that many of the memoir questions in Ian Mathie's later books are answered in ''Wild Child'' with a satisfying clunk. Seemingly all that will attract English readers's now left in the drawer is unpublishable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224202</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Drabble1999811402|title=The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws Painting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Imagine the sceneIt's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a major publishing house receives the latest pitch for year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. Its basis is a history The answer would be something along the lines of the jigsaw'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, interwoven with became a highly personal memoir of busker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever so slightly irascible maiden aunt with whom glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the author partook in the delights of puzzlingbook's about. Two words save this pitch from oblivion: Margaret Drabble. Faced with the same dilemma in There's a bookshoplot about rock & roll, the reader would which seems to be wise to follow the publisherreal passion of Hartley's hunch and buy this book - life, but it is didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a gentle delight from start to finishcategory for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843546205</amazonuk>
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