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[[Category:New Reviews|Autobiography]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave RobertsJoan Didion|title=Sad Men: A MemoirThe Year of Magical Thinking|rating=4.5
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|summary=Before he was twenty Dave Roberts had had a lot of jobs - far too many to list - but he really wanted to work in advertising and specifically for Saatchi and Saatchi, whom he saw as the This book is Joan Didion''best'' advertising agency and given their predominance in the early years s heartbreaking autobiographical account of the eighties itgrief she endured following her husband's hard to argue with his judgementsudden death. The only problem was Books that jobs with the agency were hard to come by shed light on taboo topics like death are such a beautiful and Dave eventually accepted that he would have necessary resource to start rather lower down the ladder with the intention of working his way up to the tophelp people feel less alone. And that rung at the bottom of the ladder was Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, denial and delusion and makes them utterly normal, lends them a job with an agency in Leedshuman face to wear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593071301</amazonuk>0007216858
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=A WomanYou Don's Storyt Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Annie ErnauxBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyPopular Science|summary=After spending two years in an old peopleI was tempted to read ''s home, Annie ErnauxYou Don's mother finally succumbs t Have to be Mad to AlzheimerWork Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's Disease. It has been first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a terrifyingly protracted endglorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and one that has spawned feelings of absolute helplessness in her daughter, who watched as her motherautobiography. 's life crumbled before an 'imaginationYou Don' that bore 'no relation t Have to reality'be Mad... Yet Ernaux's distress is also fuelled by the realisation that she'll 'never hear promised the sound of her [mother's] voice again', same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and by the fact that the fraying bond between the present and the past has finally been 'severed'work of a psychiatrist. Impulsively, Ernaux decides I did wonder whether it was acceptable to recreate that past, hoping to 'bring her [mother back] into be looking for humour in this setting but the world' through laughter is directed at a situation rather than a piece of writing. In short, she person and it is 'incapable of doing anything else'always delivered with empathy and understanding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373440</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=Call the VetThe Trading Game: Farmers, Dramas and Disasters - My First Year as a Country VetA Confession|author=Anna BirchGary Stevenson
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|summary=Newly-qualified vet Anna arrives in the sleepy coastal village If you were to bring up an image of Ebbourne filled with dreams of following a city banker in the footsteps your mind, you're unlikely to think of her hero, James Herriot as she starts her new role working in a rural mixed practicesomeone like Gary Stevenson. She will be treating farm animals A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, as well as smaller petswhere he was familiar with violence, in a friendly community in a stunning locationpoverty and injustice. However, Anna barely has time There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to settle in before being thrown headlong into the thick London School of things Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with two tricky calvings numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to deal be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with and plenty of muck, blood and goreCitibank. “Oh yes Mum Eventually, it’s this turned into permanent employment as a glamorous job...” she lamentstrader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753555077</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|author=Edel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to 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't in the happiest of places 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. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035025299|title=Slow Getting UpWent to London, Took the Dog|author=Nate JacksonNina Stibbe
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|summary=Sporting autobiographies are often written by those sports men and women who made it Nina Stibbe is returning to the very pinnacle of their professionLondon for a sabbatical after being away for twenty years. Their stories surround past glories and how they lifted themselves up above the great She's been at Victoria's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all that conducive to become the very best. However, for every superstar footballer or tennis playerwriting, as there needs to be a lot more average Joes and Joettes for them to shine against's always something smallholding happening - as you might expect. And who is to say that being an average player in The other side of the decision was sealed when a room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) at a professional league is not an achievement in itself? Nate Jackson was one such ‘average’ player in the NFL – but would you call him that to his face?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00IO19CYW</amazonuk>very reasonable rent.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Levels of LifeChristopher Fowler|authortitle=Julian BarnesWord Monkey|rating=3.5
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|summary=If you read It's the first of August in the middle of a broadsheet you will know cool wet summer in East Anglia. I decided not to swim at the format pool in favour of going to my beach hut. The weather closed in, rain arrived, and I decided not to do that either. When I finished reading this book from when , I realised it came out in hardback – indeed was because (a) I wanted to finish reading this book and (b) I recognised a great portion of did not want to do so anywhere near my shack. No spoiler alerts, the third part as having been excerpted somewheredust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 'was' – and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. Part one of this triptych There is something very strange about being made to laugh by a look back man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dying, and you know he actually is at pioneering aeronauts in hot air balloons – either ''hydrogen balloons'' or ''flame balloons''that point, whatever they arebecause he does. He did.|isbn=0857529625}}{{Frontpage|author= Kit De Waal|title= Without Warning and Only Sometimes|rating= 4|genre= Autobiography|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad/ They may have had crash landingsnot mean to, but they may have suffered problems here do” Without Warning and there Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and risked life and limb, but they travelled, they saw the world bonds that bind family. This book is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as a teenager living in a lower class area of Birmingham. Her father is from unique angles, and almost St. Kitts in homage to Barnes' characters chasing the sun in Caribbean and her mother is an airplane Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by and marrying a black man. This intersectionality plays a large role in his own bookthe autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her race, saw themselves as a photographic negative writ her class and her gender. Her parents loom large in shadow form on and are written with care, love, and the tops kind of cloudsanger only a child can express to their parents.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099584530</amazonuk>1472284852
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1638485216
|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
|author=Frederick Reynolds
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John JacksonBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=A Little Piece of England: A tale of self-sufficiencyI May Be Wrong
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|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=Here at Bookbag we're great fans of John Jackson. We loved When the Dalai Lama adds his [[Tales for Great Grandchildren by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini|Tales for Great Grandchildren]] words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it doesn'and'' [[Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini|Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology]] so it was something t really matter how the rest of a treat the world responds to meet your book. I know, having read the author on his own groundbook in question, so to speakthat Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. Originally published as ''A Bucket of Nuts He knows (and a Herring Net: The Birth at core so do I) that it matters very much how the rest of a Spare-Time Farm'' the world responds to this is actually Jackson's first book and thirty-five years later we're delighted that , because it tells the truth as it's been republished is, in hardback complete with the original black-and-white illustrations by Val Biroearly 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909661031</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=gareth_steel|title=My Life In AgonyNever Work With Animals|author=Irma KurtzGareth Steel
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|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I used don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to love the problem pages be appropriate. Stories of magazines as a teenager. My friends vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and I would pour over the letters which invariable ended with some form of the question Small'' but ''Am I normal?Never Work With Animals'' and mock is definitely not the invariable Agony Aunt answer of companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the author would argue that 'Of course you’re normal'All Creatures', hooting instead ''Nolacked realism, you’re, really, REALLY as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not!'suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he' That response perhaps illustrates why none of us decided s written it to follow that as a career planinform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but Irma Kurtz didit doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading 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 wereeating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883113</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Never Mind the Bullocks: One girl's 10,000 km adventure around India in the worlds cheapest carDave Letterfly Knoderer|authortitle=Vanessa AbleSpeedy: Hurled Through Havoc
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|summary=With How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a cute little map pithy sentence to kick off a review of India on the front cover and cartoon cars puttering over the pagehis memoir? Do you know, I thought I’d chosen an entertaining yet mind-broadening travelogue. Well I was wrong. Now I’ve read it through, really don't think I don’t even see it on the same shelf as a Lonely Planet. But that’s possibly this book’s novelty and great strengthcan. The travelogue shelf is fair groaning under weighty tomes by Europeans digging into Indian life and culture. So let me unpack the delights of this particular book for you, but don’t be misled: you aren’t going to pick up many recommendations for your own odyssey from this round-India skedaddle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886127</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008350388
|title=We Need to Talk About Money
|author=Otegha Uwagba
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oscar Goodman and George Anastasia0571365884|title=Being OscarMy Mess is a Bit of Life: From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Las VegasAdventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett
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|genre=Autobiography
|summary=I've Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a confession to makechild. I've done something which I tell our reviewers they must never doShe would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: I took a book it was the sort of life where if she had nothing to review which I didn't expect to likeworry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far between. The MafiaOn a visit to a therapist, as an adult, the mob - call it when she was completely unable to speak about what you will - are not people I admire and I thought was wrong with her it would be a small step to extend was suggested that to an attorney who defended them. Las Vegas? Well, she should write itdown and 's not going to be my destination of choice. I'm not against gambling, but I struggle with the concept My Mess is a Bit of travelling to a city that revels Life: Adventures in it. Oscar Goodman says that had he been Anxiety'' is the benevolent dictator of Las Vegas rather than the mayor he would have legalised prostitution and drugsresult - or so we are given to believe. Hmm... This book was going to be one of those that I threw against the wall in disgust, wasn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00HX9UEG6</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James LasdunDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=Give Me Everything You Have: On Being StalkedA Tattoo on my Brain|rating=43.5
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|summary=In the autumn of 2003 James Lasdun taught Alzheimer's is a fiction workshop as part disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of the graduate writing programme at a place he calls Morgan Collegeself. On all such courses the quality of the students is very variable but one writer stood out I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, as having talenthave many. He calls her NasreenYour memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the elements. He offered help It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and above the course but Nasreen read a personal interest into this - which wasnyour dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs't in any way reciprocatedmemoir so admirable. An email correspondence which had been friendly turned nasty, Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with accusations that NasreenAlzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''s work had been stolen to sell to other writers, that he had had an affair with another student and that he had arranged for Nasreen to be raped. Anti-semitic comments were made. Obsessive love had turned to obsessive hate.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099572311</amazonuk>1108838936
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529109116
|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey
|author=Hannah Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|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.''
The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008333173|title=Glitter and GlueHungry: A Memoir of Wanting More|author=Kelly CorriganGrace Dent
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|summary=When Kelly leaves I'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one of the USA for a life-changing trip around judges on ''Masterchef''. You know that you're going to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of the world, time. You also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all that good food in front of her goal . I've often wondered about the woman behind the media image and ''Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'' is not to end up working as a nanny in suburban Sydney. And her goal is definitely not to turn into her mother stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in the process. She doesn’t realise it at the time, but as this memoir shows, there are worse things that could happenequal measures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444725149</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=The Wolf of Wall StreetSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Jordan BelfortLouisa Pateman|rating=24.5
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|summary=As if we didn't have enough excuses to appreciate the 'Masters of the UniverseYou can' of the financial sector. After the tax dodging, the bonus scamming, price fixing t be happy and the valiant attempt to bring down the entire world economy comes Jordan Belfort aka the Wolf of Wall Streetfulfilled on your own. To be fair to Belfort, he plied his trade long before the most recent financial meltdown. Still, heYou are not complete until you find a man''s managed to piggy back the latest crash via a best selling book which has been re-released to coincide with a film adaptation starring Leonardo Dicaprio.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778129</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Born in SiberiaSakinu Ahronglong|authortitle=Tamara Astafieva, Michael Darlow and Debbie SlaterHunter School
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=I tend The flyleaf to shy away from reviewing book titles, but this time it seems appropriate – here little collection tells us that itis a work of fiction. That's a title that doesn't tell you the half of the storypossibly misleading. As much as Tamara Astafieva was born I am not sure whether it is "fiction" in Siberiathe sense that Ahronglong made it all up, and returned there several timesor whether it is as the blurb goes on to say ''recollections, for many different reasons folklore and with many very different outcomes, this is much more of a picture of autobiographical stories''. It feels like the latter. It feels like the Soviet Union stories he tells about his experiences as we in Britain think of it – Moscowa child, a bit of Saint Petersburgas an adolescent, as an adult are real and little elsetrue. That's not But memory is a fault – fickle thing, and again it's not half of the story. The story maybe poetic licence has taken over here is so complex, so rich with detail and incident, there and itself came about in such an unusual way, maybe calling it fiction means that any summary of the book has its work cut out in defining its many qualitiessafer and therefore more people will read it. More people should.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373343</amazonuk>1999791282
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Katz1544641923|title=The Dog Nobody LovedAmbassadors Do It After Dinner|author=Sandra Aragona
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=When we first meet Jon Katz heIt's not in a good place: his marriage of thirty-five years was breaking up tempting to think that the diplomatic life is privileged and he was close to a nervous breakdownluxurious. He didn't need any more problemsIt might be privileged, but family connections tell me that it is far from luxurious. He particularly Now you're not going to get many ambassadors telling you what it'didns really like (it'ts not '' need a young rescue dogdiplomatic'' to do so, a Rottweiler/Shepherd mixyou know), who'd been living wildbut the diplomatic spouse, to contend with and to upset the fragile equilibrium of the life he lived with his animals on Bedlam Farmaccompanying baggage, well, that's an entirely different matter. Frieda was near feral but devoted to her rescuer, Maria Wulf She (and it was Maria who was at the centre of this conundrum. Katz was spectacularly disconnected from the world - and Maria was the only person to whom he seemed able to talk, but to connect with Maria he had to connect with Frieda toostill usually is a 'she') can tell us exactly what goes on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091957443</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241446732|title=Empire AntarcticaOur House is on Fire: Ice, Silence Scenes of a Family and Emperor Penguinsa Planet in Crisis|author=Gavin FrancisMalena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg
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|genre=TravelPolitics and Society|summary=I know two books don't make a genre, but twice in recent years I have read autobiographical travelogues of men who felt too much The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was going an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on in most of the parenting of their lives and their surroundings, two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and took themselves off to remote, isolated, extremely cold talking and inhospitable places. One went to the shores of Lake Baikalher sister, and shared his days huntingBeata, fishingthen nine years old, drinking and reading struggled with only a few very distant neighbourswhat was happening. Gavin Francis took himself southIn such circumstances, it's natural to the edge of the Antarctic iceseek a solution close to home, but eventually, it became clear to spend a year as a scientific doctor. He wasnthe family that they were ''t able to be completely as alone as some have been in the past – even if he hid himself away in isolation before the weekburned-long annual changeover of staff was through. Francis ends up with out people on a bakerburned-out planet''s dozen of companions, in a place where – apart from the ice, sealing things up – only two lockable doors exist. You might think this was If they were to find a large group of people for someone wanting way to live happily again their solution would need to be alone, but the very tenuous and isolated feel of the place in the huge emptiness of the landscape is the main point of this book – that, and communing with emperor penguins…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009956596X</amazonuk>radical.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry Redknapp191280493X|title=Harry: My Autobiography|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=Everybody with an interest in football knows who ''Harry'' is. The cover Coming of his book won't tell you who he is, but if you're not in the know it's Harry Redknapp - football manager and for many of us, something of a national treasure. He's the manager who's seen it all, having started at rock bottom - a 70s Portakabin at Oxford City - and risen to the heights of managing Tottenham Hotspur in the Premiership. At the same time he was the popular choice for the England Manager's job when Capello threw in the towel. It's fair to say that Harry has lived his football life to the full and anyone buying this book will get their money's worth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091917875</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Love, NinaAge|author=Nina StibbeDanny Ryan
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=When I began reading this book I wasn't entirely sure that I liked it. I didn't quite know how to take the Nina from the title. She's a twenty year old Nanny, employed by the editor of the London Review of Books He began writing novels and living near Regent's Park in North London. The book contains her letters to her sister, Victoria living poetry at home in Leicestershire, and tell the age of the events and happenings in her life as a Nanny and thentwelve, going on, in her life as a student at Thames Polytechnic. Initially but it felt like she was name dropping to take him a further forty- Alan Bennett lives over the road and drops in for dinner most days; the father of Will and Sam, the two boys she is nannying, is Stephen Frears; down the road lives Claire Tomalin and her partner Michael Frayn...and yet, given chance, you begin eight years to see realise that she isn't awed by the notoriety of these people (indeed, she tells her sister that Alan Bennett was in Coronation Street!) and actually they are just the neighbours and so it is less important that Alan Bennett (AB as he's referred to in the book) comes around for dinner every night since he isn't there for fame value but rather wasn’t very good at either. Consistently unpublished for his own unique place in this rather crazy family life memoir!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670922765</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time|author=Penelope Lively|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Now aged 80, Penelope Lively, the Booker Prize-winning author of twenty works of fiction including ''Moon Tiger'' (1987) and ''How It All Began'' (2011), is increasingly conscious of death approaching. It may be true all thattime, as concluded in [[Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes]], 'we cannot truly savour life without he remains a regular awareness shining example of extinction', but this memoir is less a 'hope over experience...'memento mori'' than an agreeably scattered tour through Lively's life and times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146380</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=190874572X|title=My LifeLetters from Tove|author=David JasonTove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Born in North London in February 1940 during Back at the early years beginning of the Second World Warcentury, David John White once I went on holiday to Nepal. I met a wonderful Finnish woman and we became sort-of-friends. I can't remember if it was on that holiday or a later one that Paula told me I really had a brief career as an electricianto read Tove Jansson. Fortunately for the world I do know that it was four years later that I finally acquired an English translation of entertainment and the publicThe Summer Book, he soon forsook the world of fuses and wires for that I eagerly awaited the ''Sort Of'' translations of the stage rest of Jansson's work and small screen. When he joined Equity, they already had a David White on their records, and after a little quick thinking devoured them as soon as I could get my hands on the phone, he became David Jasonthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891407</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1908745819|title=A Piece of Danish HappinessSurfacing |author=Sharmi AlbrechtsenKathleen Jamie|rating=45
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|summary=Sharmi Albrechtsen was Sometimes when people suggest that you read a true Hindu-American princesscertain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Obsessed with shoes and handbags and designer labelsMostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so, she saw status and wealth as unless it turns out that we didn't like the only route book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to happinesshearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. But she wasn The blurb speaks of the author considering 't happy enough'an older, no matter how much designer gear she ownedless tethered sense of herself.'' Older. And it wasnLess tethered. That't until 1997, when she married her second husband, s not a Danebad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the natural world, of those aspects of the poetic and relocated to Denmarklyrical that are about style not form, that she began to wonder if it was something lacking in herselfand substance most of all, rather than her possessionsabout connection. Of course, that this book had my name on it. It was at the root of her problemswritten for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00EAINZM8</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1906852472|title=The True GermanWild Child: The Diary of Growing Up a World War II Military JudgeNomad|author=Werner Otto Muller-Hill and Benjamin Carter HettIan Mathie|rating=45
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=We've had diaries of teenagers, opium addicts, drug smugglers, For Ian Mathie fans there is good and a lot morebad news. Some Ian has come up with the missing link in his narrative, the story of them have been optimistic, happy things, and many not. Clearly World War II was not a place for a terribly cheerful outlookvery unusual childhood (yes, whatever the diaristvery years that made him the amazing man he became). However sometimes The bad – well it was not 's hardly news two years later – is that the done thing to be pessimisticbook is published posthumously. As always, for example when you were in it's beautifully written, with many exciting moments. What I most enjoyed was the huge German military and were publicly denigrating feeling that many of the dreamt-of Nazi success. Such questions in Ian Mathie's later books are answered in ''corrosion of moraleWild Child'' would mean you being put in front of with a three-man military tribunal, and most probably sentenced for such treacherous behavioursatisfying clunk. The startling thing about this book, however, is Seemingly all that it contains much that would certainly have been deemed ''corrosion of morale'', yet it was written by one of s now left in the very military judges who served on those panelsdrawer is unpublishable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137278544</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1999811402|title=Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at the End of LifePainting Snails|author=Eric LindnerStephen John Hartley
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|summary=It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'Hospice Voices': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you' tells re not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the stories of best results. The answer would be something along the last days lines of some fascinating people while 'try it follows author Eric Lindner through and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his journey as A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a hospice volunteer 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 crisis in his own daughterMajor Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's healthan autobiography. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442220597</amazonuk>
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