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<!-- Thion'o INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->[[image:Thiongo_Birth.jpg|left{{Frontpage|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784701300?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINisbn=1784701300]]0241636604|title===[[Birth of a Dream WeaverThe Trading Game: A writer's awakening by Ngugi wa Thiong'o]]Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating==4.5[[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] The true story summary=If you were to bring up an image of Kenya's foremost author a city banker in his own words. Ngugi wa Thiong'o is the most important writer that your mind, you've (or at the very least, I've) never heard re unlikely to think ofsomeone like Gary Stevenson. In this volume of his autobiographical series we follow Ngugi as he ventures to University in Uganda A hoodie and starts writing professionally. Ngugi tells jeans replaces the story of British colonialism at the end of the Empire as clearly as pin-stripe suit and his own tale – making this one of the most important books on the market today. [[Birth of a Dream Weaver: A writer's awakening by Ngugi wa Thiong'o|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Omeiza -->[[image:Omeiza_Parenting.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524682853?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524682853]] ===[[Parenting through background is the Eyes of a Child: Memoirs of My Childhood by Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]]East End, [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza was brought up in Nigeria and came to Britain to study for her A levels when she where he was 18. Her parents used their savings to give her this opportunity and called it an investment in her future. Now a qualified pharmacist, married and familiar with a child of her ownviolence, Tabitha looks back at her childhood poverty and reflects injustice. There was no posh public school on the way her mother and father raised her. And she gives their parenting top marks. [[Parenting through the Eyes of a Child: Memoirs of My Childhood by Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Micheal -->[[image:Micheal_Revelation.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524666866?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524666866]] ===[[Revelation Ch:25 - A Letter To The Churches From The 24th Elder by Edward K Micheal]]=== [[image:1.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] Edward K Michael has taken the brave step of laying out his spiritual journey for all to see. It is a deeply personal book and he's honest enough CV - genuine enough - to wonder if he would have taken a different path if but he had known then what he knows now, but he's generous enough too been to hope that people will find comfort in the supernatural manifestations he has seenLondon School of Economics. Before you begin reading you will need to accept that the book seems to have been written without editorial intervention: you are hearing the real man speak and what you will read Stevenson is very close to stream of consciousness. [[Revelation Ch:25 - A Letter To The Churches From The 24th Elder by Edward K Micheal|Full Review]]<br> <!-- McGowan bright -extremely bright ->[[image:McGowan_Art.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1786071827?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1786071827]] ===[[The Art of Failing: Notes from the Underdog by Anthony McGowan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] I had not come across Anthony McGowan's work before reading this book, as he mainly writes for Young Adults. I can imagine his books to be engaging and humorous from the clever way he constructs sentences, and the ironic subtlety has a facility with numbers which he uses descriptive detailsmost of us can only envy. [[The Art of Failing: Notes from the Underdog by Anthony McGowan|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Harry Leslie Smith|title= Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to Arms|rating= 5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms is part biography and part rallying call for society to tackle the systemic, endemic and debilitating inequality faced by the people of the United Kingdom, particularly in the Northbe stupid. Through reflecting on It was his own experiences during his childhoodability at what was, essentially, Harry Leslie Smith has painted a frank and uncompromising picture of the grim, appallingly miserable childhood he had to endure due to the poverty faced by his family contrasted card game which got him an internship with theCitibank. Eventually, shamefully still, grim and miserable lives many people endure today in this turned into permanent employment as a country ravaged by cuts, austerity and political turmoiltrader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147212345X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Bristow1529395224|title= China in DragLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: Travels with The Secret Life of a Cross-dresserVet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating= 43.5|genre= Autobiography Animals and Wildlife|summary=Having worked for nine years Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in Bejing as a journalist for the BBChis footsteps, author Michael Bristow decided to write about Chinese history. Having been learning particularly when he considered the local language for several years, Bristow asked strain that being on-call put on his language teacher for guidance - father's life. When he was seventeen he took the language teacher, born in opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the early fifties, offered Bristow a compelling picture of life in Communist China - but added to thatjob for him. Before long, Bristow he was greatly surprised to find that his language teacher also enjoyed spending his spare time in ladies clothingat Liverpool University. It soon becomes clear that the tale told here is immensely personal hadn't - as with so many students - yet also paints been his dream since he was a fascinating portrait of one of the worldchild. If anything, he's most intriguing nationsd wanted to be a professional footballer. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910985902</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roger MooreEdel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Bientot...Cuban American Odyssey

|genre=AutobiographyGraphic Novels|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The news revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a great shock: he was one saviour of those people you knew would go on the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for everall. There was just one small glimmer of light in the sadness Well, those hours- the news that a matter long speeches of days before his death he'd delivered the finished manuscript were kind of taking his book, ''À bientôt…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 publisherssuccessful photography business, success being frowned upon. Just a few months later a copy landed on my desk and I didn't even bother The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to look as though I could resist reading ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it straight away.remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782438610</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreview <!-- remove 10/9 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Burrell1035025299|title=Twelve Times To The Max: One Man's Journey Went toLondon, and Recollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World RecordsTook the Dog|author=Nina Stibbe

|summary=The first of Stuart BurrellNina Stibbe is returning to London for a sabbatical after being away for twenty years. She's been at Victoria's world records, well, the first two, actuallysmallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all that conducive to writing, as hethere's not a man to do things by halves, came about by accidentalways something smallholding happening - as you might expect. There had been a plan to raise some money for The other side of the Children in Need Charity and quite late on the people who were to have been the main attraction got a better offer and Burrell is not decision was sealed when a man to let people down. What could be done to bring people in and raise some money? Most of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakes, but Burrell had made a hobby of escapology and idea room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) at a sponsored escape had life breathed into it. On 3 November 2002 he went for the Fastest Handcuff Escape world record and immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in One Hour. Both were successful and more than £300 was raised for Children in Needvery reasonable rent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>154712251X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elena LappinChristopher Fowler|title=What Language Do I Dream In?Word Monkey

|summary=Speaking many languages fluently seems close It's the first of August in the middle of a cool wet summer in East Anglia. I decided not to swim at the 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, I realised it was because (a superpower ) I wanted to most of finish reading this book and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shack. No spoiler alerts, the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 'was' – and his first chapter tells usabout his terminal diagnosis. Elena Lappin's memoir There is something very strange about how she came being made to be laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dying, and you know he actually is at home in five or more languagesthat point, because 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 not mean to, but they do” Without Warning and what effect Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this has on her identity. Her family's history idea of parenthood and the emigrations bonds that led to her learning so many languages are caught up with European eventsbind family. As This book is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as a teenager living in a child she moved lower class area of Birmingham. Her father is from Russia to Czechoslovakia St. Kitts in the Caribbean and from there to Germany. Elena was encouraged her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by exchange holidays abroad to learn French and English toomarrying a black man. Then she chose university This intersectionality plays a large role in Israel and learnt Hebrewthe autobiography. So just as the rest of us might pick up bits of furniture or books from our various homesKit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her race, Elena picked up a language every timeher class and her gender. A clever member of an intellectual household, with Her parents who were translators loom large and writersare written with care, there never seems love, and the kind of anger only a child can express to have been great effort involved in acquiring languages, it just happenedtheir parents.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844085783</amazonuk>1472284852

{{newreview <!-- remove 1/9 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Parrain Thorance1638485216|title=The French Cashew TreeBlack, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating=45

|summary=The place isn't given a name, but we can work out that it's in the Caribbean and it's here that Parrain Thorance had an idyllic childhood with his parentsCorruption is not department, brother and sister until he was eight years oldgender or race specific. It was then that his mother died suddenly and the family was broken up: his brother and sister went has everything to live do with an aunt and Parrain stayed with his father character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year- old police officer, in the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an aunt and uncle moved into the family homeexception. The aunt - his fatherimage of Chauvin kneeling on George's sister - was fine, but Parrain neck is not one which I'll ever forget and her husband never got onthe protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. The easy, generous days of childhood, sitting under There was a backlash against the police - and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the titular French Cashew Tree might still be there superficially, but paradise would never be untainted againChauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524681458</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hunter DaviesBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=A Life in the Day: Memories of Sixties London, Lots of Writing, The Beatles and my Beloved WifeI May Be Wrong|rating= 5

|summary= Although When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I knew 'm inclined to think it doesn't really matter how the name Hunter Davies before rest of the world responds to your book. I picked this know, having read the book upin question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows (and at core so do I was unaware just ) that it matters very much how pivotal a figure the rest of the Swinging Sixties Hunter Davies really was. Take himworld responds to this book, Harold Wilson and a certain musical quartet from Liverpool out of because it tells the decadetruth as it is, and you are left with a bit of a vacuumin the early 21st century. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471161293</amazonuk>1526644827

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roald Dahlgareth_steel|title= WarNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating= 54|genre= Short StoriesAnimals and Wildlife|summary=In war, are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahlcompanion volume you's time as ve been looking for. As a fighter pilot in TV show the Second World War as well author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as seven do other tales of conflict 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's written it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and strifedistressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, Dahl reveals the human side of our most inhumane activityalthough there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405933194</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia BlackburnDave Letterfly Knoderer|title=ThreadsSpeedy: The Delicate Life of John CraskeHurled Through Havoc|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=John Craske was How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a fisherman, from pithy sentence to kick off a family review of fishermenhis memoir? Do you know, who became too ill to go to seaI really don't think I can.  Dave is an author and an artist. He was born in Sheringham on the north Norfolk coast in 1881 An inspirational speaker and would eventually die in the Norwich hospital in 1943 after a life which could have been defined by ill healthprofessional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. There were various explanations for what ailed him, what caused him to sink into The son of a stupourLutheran minister, sometimes for years at a time and he was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'. But John had s struggled with a natural artistic talentcontrolling father, albeit that his work had run away to be done on join the available surfaces in his home. Chair seatscircus (not a metaphor), window sillstrained horses, the backs of doors all carried his wonderful pictures of the sea. Then he moved on to embroiderypainted caravans, producing wonderful pictures of the Norfolk coast - designed andpainted theatre sets, most famously, of and hit rock bottom when the evacuation at Dunkirkbottle took over.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099582198</amazonuk>B0965V3LLN

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Elkin0008350388|title=Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and LondonWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=45|genre=History Politics and Society|summary=Lauren Elkin is down on suburbs: they're places where you can't or shouldn't To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen walking; places whereas less desirable, in fictionless hireable, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking of everything from less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...''Madame Bovary '' We Need to Talk About Money''Revolutionary Roadby Otegha Uwagba '')0. When she imagines to herself what the female version 7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of that well-known historical figure, the carefree colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''flâneurThe Bookseller''29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, might bewith her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, she thinks about women who freely wandered principled and determined that their children would have the world's great cities without having the more insalubrious connotation best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the word 'streetwalker' applied family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to thema private school in London and then a place at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593378</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Saqib Noor0571365884|title=Surgery on the Shoulders My Mess is a Bit of GiantsLife: Letters from a doctor abroadAdventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett

|summary=The letters begin much in Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a child. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the fashion sort of any young man away from home, perhaps in a quite exciting country, writing back life where if she had nothing to family worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and friends to tell them of his experiences, the sights he's seen and the people he's metfar between. It's just On a little different in ''Surgery on the Shoulders of Giants'' though: Saqib Noor is visit to a junior doctortherapist, as an adult, training when she was completely unable to be an orthopaedic surgeon speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down and over ''My Mess is a period Bit of ten years he visited six countries, not as a tourist but to give medical assistance. They're countries which Noor describes as ''fourth worldLife: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the result - third world with added disaster - and their need is desperateor so we are given to believe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1521173192</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Johnny RingwoodDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=Cargoes & Capers: The life and times of a London Docklands manA Tattoo on my Brain|rating=43.5

|summary=Johnny Ringwood was born in 1936, just three years before the start Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of the second world warself. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, as he says, ''slap bang next to have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the Royal Victoria dock'elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs'memoir so admirable. His education was somewhat limited, not least because it Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was regularly interrupted by the Luftwaffe. You might therefore be surprised at what he diagnosed with Alzheimers and has managed to achieve documented his journey in the intervening eighty years. I certainly was''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1544833555</amazonuk>1108838936

<!-- Grindrod -->[[imageThe 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:Grindrod Outskirtsshe'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.jpg}}{{Frontpage|leftisbn=0008333173|linktitle=httpsHungry://wwwA Memoir of Wanting More|author=Grace Dent|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=I'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one of the 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 time.amazon You also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all that good food in front of her.co I've often wondered about the woman behind the media image and ''Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'' is a stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in equal measures.uk/gp/product/1473625025?ie}}{{Frontpage|isbn=UTF8&tag1504321383|title=thebookbag-21&linkCodeSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=as2&campLouisa Pateman|rating=1634&creative4.5|genre=6738&creativeASINAutobiography|summary=1473625025]]''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''.

This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sakinu Ahronglong|title=Hunter School|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary= The flyleaf to this little collection tells us that it is a work of fiction. That's possibly misleading. I am not sure whether it is "fiction" in the sense that Ahronglong made it all up, or whether it is as the blurb goes on to say ''recollections, folklore and autobiographical stories''. It feels like the latter. It feels like the stories he tells about his experiences as a child, as an adolescent, as an adult are real and true. But memory is a fickle thing, and maybe poetic licence has taken over here and there and maybe calling it fiction means that its safer and therefore more people will read it. More people should.|isbn=1999791282}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1544641923|title=[[Outskirts by John Grindrod]]Ambassadors Do It After Dinner|author=Sandra Aragona|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=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 diplomatic spouse, the accompanying baggage, well, that's an entirely different matter. She (and it still usually is a 'she') can tell us exactly what goes on.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241446732|title=Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in 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 parenting of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her 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-out planet''. If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.}}

[[image:4star.jpg{{Frontpage|isbn=191280493X|title=Coming of Age|linkauthor=Category:{{{Danny Ryan|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife=4|genre=Autobiography|Animals summary=''He began writing novels and Wildlife]]poetry at the age of twelve, but it was to take him a further forty-eight years to realise that he wasn’t very good at either. Consistently unpublished for all that time, [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]]he remains a shining example of hope over experience...''

''This a memoir from someone you have never heard of - but will feel like you have.''}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=190874572X|title=Letters from Tove|author=David WilbourneTove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Back at the beginning of the century, 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 to read Tove Jansson. I do know that it was four years later that I finally acquired an English translation of The Summer Book, and that I eagerly awaited the ''Sort Of'' translations of the rest of Jansson's work and devoured them as soon as I could get my hands on them.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1908745819|title=Shepherd of Another FlockSurfacing |author=Kathleen Jamie

|summary=[[:Category:David Wilbourne|David WilbourneSometimes 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]] CV looks like a career path for people rare experience. People who are hard-of-humouredsensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. Banker, teacher The blurb speaks of Ancient Greekthe author considering ''an older, vicar, bishop…none less tethered sense of these are jobs normally connected in our minds with a jovial twinkleherself. '' Yet in DavidOlder. Less tethered. That's case we'd be totally wrong to assumenot a bad description of where I am. The current Bishop Add to that my love of Llandaff takes us by the hand to show us episodes from his life as vicar natural world, of those aspects of the character-packed Yorkshire parish of Helmsley proving poetic and lyrical that tears of sorrow are equally shared with tears about style not form, and substance most of laughterall, 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 fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0283072709</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maggie Nelson1906852472|title=The Red PartsWild Child: Autobiography of Growing Up a TrialNomad|author=Ian Mathie|rating=45

|summary=Maggie Nelson For Ian Mathie fans there is good and bad news. Ian has come up with the author missing link in his narrative, the story of four volumes of poetry and five wide-ranging works of nonfiction a very unusual childhood (yes, the very years that made him the amazing man he became). The bad – well it's hardly news two years later – is that delve into the nature of violence and sexualitybook is published posthumously. From what IAs always, it'd heard about her writings beautifully written, I knew to expect an important and unconventional thinker with a distinctive, lyrical stylemany exciting moments. Now Vintage is making some What I most enjoyed was the feeling that many of her backlist, including this book (originally published the questions in Ian Mathie's later books are answered in 2007) and the uncategorisable ''BluetsWild Child'', available for the first time with a satisfying clunk. Seemingly all that's now left in the UKdrawer is unpublishable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784705799</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henry Marsh1999811402|title=Admissions: A Life in Brain SurgeryPainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley

|summary=It's more than two years since I read [[Do No Harmvery difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery]] but the memories have stayed with me. originally I had thought then that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book about brain surgery might sound as though I was taking my pleasures too sadly, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be something along the book was superb - lines of 'try it and very easy reading see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and when is now an A&E consultant (part-time). I heard about found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''AdmissionsCasualty'' I decided to treat myself to an audio download, particularly as Henry Marsh was narratingbut that isn't really what the book's about. I knew that my expectations were unreasonably highThere's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley's life, but how did it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the book dohard way'?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474603866</amazonuk> Yep - that's the one. It's an autobiography.