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|author=Jim Quillen

|title=Inside Alcatraz: My Life on the Rock

|rating=5

|genre=Autobiography

|summary=It sounds like something from a Hollywood movie. A group of young prisoners make a daring escape from prison and go on the run, cleverly evading capture thanks to quick wits and creative thinking. After managing to cover some distance, the men began to feel ''smart, confident and quite comfortable,'' thinking that they had managed to outwit the police. A rude awakening with gun to the head one morning proved otherwise. The circumstances of their escape meant that their capture would lead to a long incarceration in one of the most notorious prisons in the world: Alcatraz. ''Inside Alcatraz'' is the story of one of those men, Jim Quillen, and his long road to redemption.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784750662</amazonuk>

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|author= Malala Yousafzai

|summary=With the film about Alan Turing, ''The Imitation Game'' getting rave reviews and award nominations right, left and centre, the sterling work done by the Bletchley Park cryptographers during WWII is quite high in our minds. But Enigma wasn't the only code broken and Turing wasn't the only one doing secret but heroic work.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095646968X</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Andy Miller~~

~~|title=The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=Biography~~

|summary=Andy Miller and his wife both worked and they had a three-year-old son. Despite the fact that Miller was an editor for a London publisher he felt that he'd 'lost' reading from his life. He seemed to acquire a lot of books, but making time for reading them was an entirely different matter. With the help of his wife he developed a 'list of betterment' - initially a limited number of great books which he determined to read but eventually it became fifty great books and two not so great, which he was going to master over the space of a year. He was re-integrating books into everyday life.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00QJV7OAI</amazonuk>~~

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