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==Autobiography==
{{newreview
|author=Kurt Vonnegut and Dan Wakefield
|title=Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''Kurt Vonnegut: Letters'' is a fascinating tome of personal correspondences between one of the greats in American literature and the several individuals and institutions whose paths he’d crossed. Written from the early forties up until 2007, the year of Vonnegut's untimely death, these letters enable readers to understand the workings of the mind behind classics such as ''Slaughterhouse-Five'' and ''Cat's Cradle''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099582937</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Neil Ansell
|summary=We're used to thinking about career women who have it all: the high-flyer who goes home to her husband, children and immaculate house to plan their next holiday and their social life. We might not know these people - but everything seems to tell us that they're ''there''. What, though, of the single woman, no longer in the first flush of youth (that's probably nineteen, these days) who struggles just to keep going? What of the woman who struggles to keep the ''boiler'' going and who is tempted to kidnap the television repairman and tie him to the bed because she's convinced that the television will stop working the moment he goes?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780331916</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Agatha Christie and Mathew Prichard (editor)
|title=The Grand Tour: Letters and photographs from the British Empire expedition
|rating=5
|genre=Travel
|summary=In 1922 Agatha Christie, already the author of three very successful books, was happily married with a small daughter, and her heart's desire was to continue writing while she led a quiet life in the country. However her husband Archie was becoming increasingly restless and disenchanted with working in the City, and his longing for a change was suddenly to be fulfilled in a most unexpected way. An old friend, Major Belcher, 'blessed with great powers of bluff', presented them both with the opportunity of a lifetime – to join him on a trip to several imperial outposts in preparation for the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition to be staged at Wembley. Archie would be his financial adviser, and Agatha was cordially invited for the trip, as his wife. (Two-year-old Rosalind would have to stay at home, a decision which involved some soul-searching).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000744768X</amazonuk>
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