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|title=My Life In Agony

|author=Irma Kurtz

|rating=4

|genre=Autobiography

|summary=I used to love the problem pages of magazines as a teenager. My friends and I would pour over the letters which invariable ended with some form of the question ''Am I normal?'' and mock the invariable Agony Aunt answer of ''Of course you’re normal'', hooting instead ''No, you’re, really, REALLY not!'' That response perhaps illustrates why none of us decided to follow that as a career plan, but Irma Kurtz did, and as agony aunt for Cosmopolitan for more than 40 years it’s safe to say she has been a fair bit more sympathetic than we ever were.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883113</amazonuk>

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|title=Never Mind the Bullocks: One girl's 10,000 km adventure around India in the worlds cheapest car

|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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~~|author=Neil Ansell~~

~~|title=Deer Island~~

~~|rating=3.5~~

~~|genre=Autobiography~~

|summary=Neil Ansell volunteered in the 1980s to work for an organization that provided support for the homeless. These homeless were the people other shelters would reject for various reasons (drink, drugs, etc.) but the group Neil worked for were a little different to most similar charities. Due to this Neil experienced some of the worst case scenarios of being down and out in London, and along the way befriended many interesting but ultimately ill-fated people. To escape and recover from a life full of brief friendships, poverty and untimely death Neil travelled to the Isle of Jura off the West coast of Scotland. Jura came to be a special place for him and of all places in the world it was the one most in his heart. Deer Island is Neil’s account of his life in the 1980s and his discovery of Jura; it is, in effect, his love song to the island that has been his sanctuary.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908213132</amazonuk>~~

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