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[[Category:New Reviews|Autobiography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove --> ==Autobiography== <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andy Kershaw0241636604|title=No Off SwitchThe Trading Game: The AutobiographyA Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5
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|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you'The boy Kershaw' as re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his hero background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and later friend John Peel sometimes wryly referred to him injustice. There was no posh public school on air, has his CV - but he had a pretty remarkable lifebeen to the London School of Economics. He's been – taken a deep breath – Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a concert promoter while studying politics at Leeds University, Billy Bragg's driver across facility with numbers which most of Europe, a presenter on BBC TV and successively us can only envy. He also on Radios 1realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, 3 and 4essentially, a news correspondent reporting from Iraq, Haiti, Angola and Rwandacard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and also done time this turned into permanent employment as a guest of Her Majestytrader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687446</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natalie Taylor1529395224|title=Signs Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Lifeof a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Natalie Taylor Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was just twenty four years old, a GP and five months pregnantRowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when her husband died in a tragic accident. This memoir takes us from he considered the day she found out he was dead through to her sonstrain that being on-call put on his father's first birthdaylife. Natalie's situation is horribly sad. I can't even begin to imagine what I would have done in her place. The record When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of her grieving process is very raw doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and honest. Based upon her journals that she kept through was convinced this time her pain leaps off was the page and makes you feel sick inside job for the horror she's facinghim. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. I liked that she doesnIt hadn't seem to be advocating - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a correct way to grievechild. She simply states how she felt, how she reacted at each momentIf anything, he'd wanted to be that calmly and quietly or with raging, screaming tears. Luckily she had an extremely supportive family and a good group of friends and it is interesting - if rather disturbing - to follow her progress as she deals with her life without her husbandprofessional footballer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444724673</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon SchamaEdel Rodriguez|title=Scribble, Scribble, ScribbleWorm: Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My MotherA Cuban American Odyssey|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyGraphic Novels|summary=The collection has been divided into reader-friendly sections named, for example - 'We'Travelling, Testing Democracyre in childhood, Cooking and Eating'we', to name but threere in Cuba. As The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a professor saviour of Art Historythe country, it shouldn't come as has proven himself a surprise that there's also Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a rather chunky section on Schama's thoughts on the art worldlevel playing field for all. Politics also is a centreWell, those hours-stage subjectlong speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Each article is headed with where it first appeared and Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the numerous Guardian pieces may country demanded (especially as he would probably be well-known shipped off to some. So I suppose you could say that this is second time aroundminor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for those who missed the first publicationhis successful photography business, success being frowned upon. Not a bad thing at all when The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the writing is as good as heat, but in thissultry island country, I'd say.it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099546655</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara Sinatra1035025299|title=Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank Sinatra|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Barbara Blakeley, born in 1926, was married firstly to Robert Oliver, an executive, with whom she had a son, and secondly Went to Zeppo Marx. But it was the already thrice-married and thrice-divorced Francis Albert SinatraLondon, whom she had idolized as a singer for a long time, with whom she would make her most enduring marriage, and vice versa. They tied Took the knot in 1976, and stayed together until his death in 1998.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091937248</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDog|author=Anna Burley|title=Bipolar ParentNina Stibbe|rating=34
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|summary=Anna Burley keeps telling herself that she Nina Stibbe is returning to London for a responsible adult now and works on the idea that most people would see her as a normal, well-grounded personsabbatical after being away for twenty years. What people She's been at Victoria'dons smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't'' see is the story of her childhood. She wrote it down all that conducive to get rid of itwriting, to get it out her system and rid herself of those pockets of pain which live under her skin. Sheas there's decided that she's not going to run from it all any longeralways something smallholding happening - as you might expect. ''Bipolar Parent'' is The other side of the story decision was sealed when a room became available (courtesy of her childhood and the parent who had such an influence in making her into what she is todayDeborah Moggach) at a very reasonable rent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1456775332</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian A GriffithsChristopher Fowler|title=DMD Life Art and MeWord Monkey
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|summary=Ian Griffiths suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - It's the first of August in the middle of a form cool wet summer in East Anglia. I decided not to swim at the pool in favour of muscular dystrophy which causes muscle degenerationgoing to my beach hut. It begins The weather closed in early childhood with difficulty in walking , rain arrived, and progresses I decided not to cause problems with breathing and all the voluntary musclesdo that either. Ultimately When I finished reading this book, I realised it's fatal. Men was because (a) I wanted to finish reading this book and boys – it's linked (b) I did not want to the X chromosome do so affects only males – with the disease have a life expectancy of between the late teens and mid-twentiesanywhere near my shack. Ian's in his mid-twenties now and heNo spoiler alerts, the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 's written was'DMD Life: art – and me' to explain what it really feels like to live with the diseasehis first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. And when I say 'really feels like' I do mean There is something very strange about being made to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dying, and you know he actually is at thatpoint, because he does. Ian doesn't gloss over ''anything''He did.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907652337</amazonuk>0857529625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bob Marshall-AndrewsKit De Waal|title=Off Message: The Complete Antidote to Political HumbugWithout Warning and Only Sometimes|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Bob Marshall-Andrews entered Parliament in 1997As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, rather too late your mum and dad/ They may not mean to be , but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and the bonds that bind family. This book is a career politician (he was already memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as a teenager living in a lower class area of Birmingham. Her father is from St. Kitts in the Caribbean and her mother is an established QC) Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by and with marrying a profound distrust of authorityblack man. He had no aspirations towards office, which was perhaps as well for all concerned as he would become best known for being This intersectionality plays a dissidentlarge role in the autobiography. I occasionally enquired as Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to which party held his allegiance her race, her class and eventually concluded that he went her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with his conscience. The last three Labour administrations have spawned more political memoirs than any other – care, love, and I did wonder if this would be just one more to add the kind of anger only a child can express to the piletheir parents.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846684412</amazonuk>1472284852
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Blixen1638485216|title=Out Of AfricaBlack, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds
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|summary=It's more than a quarter of a century since I first saw the film ''Out of Africa'' and it's one of the few that have stayed with me over the intervening yearsCorruption is not department, gender or race specific. It wasnhas everything to do with character. Period.'t just the story, but the personality of Karen Blixen and the wonderful landscape of the Ngong Hills, south of Nairobi, in Kenya's Rift Valley. I remember looking for this book at the time, but being unable to find it, so the opportunity to read it now was too good to miss.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951437</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian MathieBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=Bride PriceI May Be Wrong
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|genre=Autobiography|summary=When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'Bride Pricem inclined to think it doesn' has proved an even more absorbing t really matter how the rest of the world responds to your book than I anticipated from its Amazon write-up. I know, having read it the book in a single sitting; the issues question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows (and at core so do I) that it raised overwhelming my thoughts for matters very much how the next couple rest of days. In terms of its overall flavourthe world responds to this book, quality and impact valuebecause it tells the truth as it is, I'd bracket it with in the classic 'Walkabout' by James Vance Marshallearly 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906852081</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isaiah Berlingareth_steel|title=Enlightening: Letters 1946 - 1960Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel
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|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Isaiah Berlin wrote in tribute I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to the memory be appropriate. Stories of Dorothy de Rothschild of her personality, a vet'…overwhelming charm, great dignity, a very lively sense of humour, pleasure in the oddities of s life, an unconquerable vitality have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a kind of eternal youth and an eager responsiveness to all TV show the author would argue that passed…' Reading this second volume of letters'All Creatures'' lacked realism, now available in paperback, covering Berlinas 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's most creative periodwritten it to inform and provoke thought, these same characteristics might be aptly applied to Sir Isaiah himselfparticularly amongst aspiring vets. HoweverIt deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, as this most self-aware of intellectuals recognised, his loquacity although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and compulsive socialising were driven by a persistent need to escape a sense of unreality, an inner voideating. In these letters he writes, 'my quest for gaiety is a perpetual defence against the extreme sense of the abyss by which I have been affected ever since I can remember myself…'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844138348</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bill LarkworthyDave Letterfly Knoderer|title=Doctor LarkSpeedy: The Benefits of a Medical EducationHurled Through Havoc
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|summary=Bill Larkworthy is a pleasant fellow who has lead an eventful, but not world-shattering life. So at the outset it's probably worth saying that this self-deprecating tale won't light many literary fires. If fireworks are what you are looking for, search elsewhere. On How to summarise the other hand, I always find ordinary people's stories of everyday life fascinating, as well as providing useful background, or what used to be called 'general knowledge', about other parts of the world. Since my general knowledge of the Gulf States is more or less limited Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to Lawrence kick off a review of Arabia and current news reportshis memoir? Do you know, a little padding wonI really don't go amiss. So yes, I did enjoy this read, and think I imagine the Saga age group will borrow it in steady numbers from libraries (if they can find one open). It would make a good present for a man of a certain age, which is:|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906852065</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
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|title=We Need to Talk About Money
|author=Otegha Uwagba
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|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=Eva Petulengro0571365884|title=The Girl My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in the Painted Caravan: Memories of a Romany ChildhoodAnxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett
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|summary=Eva Petulengro was born in Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a painted caravan in 1939child. Her Romany family She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the sort of life where if she had travelled in Norfolk nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and Lincolnshire for generationsfar between. She has had On a very successful career as visit to a clairvoyanttherapist, writer of horoscope columns and publisher of magazinesas an adult, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down and her daughter ''My Mess is also a well known media astrologer. The Girl Bit of a Life: Adventures in the Painted Caravan Anxiety'' is a memoir of her childhood and youth, up until her marriage in her 20s and the beginning of her careerresult - or so we are given to believe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330519999</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harry Leslie SmithDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=1923: A MemoirTattoo on my Brain|rating=43.5
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|summary=Harry Leslie Smith was born in 1923. If youAlzheimer're wondering about the title – s is a disease that's the explanation – slowly wears away your identity and although it's when Harry began his life it's not where his story began. He takes us back some years before to his father's family with its roots in mining and a sideline in running a pub which was to make them comfortable if not wealthysense of self. Harry's father was middle-aged when he got involved with LillianI have been directly affected by this cruel disease, a teenage girlas have many. Unsurprisingly his family were not impressed or welcoming when the pair married because Your memories and personality worn away like a child was on statue over time affected the wayelements. Albert Smith expected It seems as if nature wants that he would inherit the pub when his father died, but it passed to his uncle final victory over you and your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so began admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a life of disappointment for Albert neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and Lillianhas documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1450254136</amazonuk>1108838936
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|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey
|author=Hannah Jackson
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|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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Shilling0008333173|title=The Stranger in the MirrorHungry: A Memoir of Middle AgeWanting More|author=Grace Dent
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|summary=Middle-aged women disappearI'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one of the judges on ''Masterchef''. They are not see on television, their lives do not appear in newspapers, the legions of novels that are written each year rarely feature them. At least, You know that is what the author Jane Shilling believes as she wakes up aged 47 you're going to find get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of the narrative of her contemporaries and their lives which time. You also ponder on how she has been reading about and living in parallel can look so elegant with since leaving university has vanished. She looks all that good food in the mirror and sees a face she does not recognisefront of her. Even with a punishing regime of early bed, no alcohol I've often wondered about the woman behind the media image and litres ''Hungry: A Memoir of water, it refuses to regain its youthful bloom. So she decides to take Wanting More'' is a magnifying glass to this particular moment stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in time, this journey between youth and old ageequal measures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701181001</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again
|author=Louisa Pateman
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|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BurnsideSakinu Ahronglong|title=Waking Up In ToytownHunter School|rating=4.5
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|summary=After years The flyleaf to this little collection tells us that it is a work of alcoholism and borderline insanityfiction. That's possibly misleading. I am not sure whether it is "fiction" in the sense that Ahronglong made it all up, John Burnside decides or whether it is as the blurb goes on to become normal. This involves moving to Surreysay ''recollections, working in an office folklore and settling into a numbing daily routine he hopes will prevent him drifting back towards bad habitsautobiographical stories''. It feels like the latter. These memoirs chronicle It feels like the failure of stories he tells about his bid for normality experiences as a child, as an adolescent, as an adult are real and subsequent disillusionment with the projecttrue. It's But memory is a solipsistic account but the writing is powerful 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 draws you in. More people should.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099507838</amazonuk>1999791282
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rhoda Janzen1544641923|title=Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Coming HomeAmbassadors Do It After Dinner|author=Sandra Aragona|rating=4.5
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|summary=Even although It's tempting to think that the obliging blurb on the back cover tells the reader a little about being Mennonitediplomatic life is privileged and luxurious. It might be privileged, I couldn't resist looking but family connections tell me that it up in the dictionaryis far from luxurious. I was intrigued Now you're not going to start reading. And emblazoned across the front cover is get many ambassadors telling you what it's really like (it's not ''diplomatic'No 1 In The US'. Great praise indeedto do so, you know), but the diplomatic spouse, the accompanying baggage, well, I thoughtthat's an entirely different matter. But how would She (and it go down across the pond? Time to find out ..still usually is a 'she') can tell us exactly what goes on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085789031X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Judt0241446732|title=The Memory ChaletOur House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg
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|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=In 2008 the historian Tony Judt The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative disorder that eventually results in complete paralysis for the sufferer. Unable to jot down ideas as they came to him, Judt had to rely an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on his memory to hold them until he had most of the chance to dictate his words to somebody elseparenting of their two daughters. His memory Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, which was already goodBeata, became exceptional. The progress of the disorder left Judt unable to movethen nine years old, but no mental deterioration or lack of sensation occurred, which he describes as a mixed blessingstruggled with what was happening. He had to endure whole nights lying in the same position In such circumstances, unable it's natural to roll over or even seek a solution close to scratch an itchhome, a prisoner in his own body. To preserve his sanity during these tortuous nights he focussed on events from his own pastbut eventually, linking then with other events and ideas it had never occurred became clear to him the family that they were connected''burned-out people on a burned-out planet''. It was during these reveries that the essays in The Memory Chalet If they were not only conceived, but also developed in to find a way to live happily again their entiretysolution would need to be radical.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434020966</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Leon Davis191280493X|title=Running Scared: For 22 Years He Was a Fugitive - The Corrupt Cop Busted by GodComing of Age|author=Danny Ryan|rating=3.54
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|summary=Robert Davis was ''He began writing novels and poetry at the eldest age of nine children all living with their grandmother in New Orleans – on welfare. His grandmother was a good, honest woman and Davis loved and respected hertwelve, but money it was so tight to take him a further forty-eight years to realise that he resorted to thieving to bring some extra food in wasn’t very good at either. Consistently unpublished for the family. He knew all that she would be deeply upset about ittime, but hunger is hungerhe remains a shining example of hope over experience. In your heart you can't blame him and it seems that all is coming good when Davis becomes a respected police officer in the mid nineteen-seventies. He's living with a good, decent woman and looks set to have a good career. Great, you think, sometimes life ''is'' fair and it works out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1854249932</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicky Haslam190874572X|title=Redeeming FeaturesLetters from Tove|author=Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)|rating=35
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|summary=Nicholas HaslamBack at the beginning of the century, interior designer, columnist, reviewer, the man whom 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 said would attend on that holiday or a lighted candlelater 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, let alone a party, socialite and name dropper - this is your lifethat 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009954623X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gok Wan1908745819|title=Through Thick and ThinSurfacing |author=Kathleen Jamie|rating=45
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|summary=Famous for his sensitivity and understanding with womenSometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, encouraging they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them and enabling them to accept themselvesat their word, and their bodiesor not, as but rarely do we ask them why they arethought so, Gok Wanunless it turns out that we didn't like the book. That's autobiography sadly tells a very different story with regards rare experience. People who are sensitive to his own body acceptancehearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. Having gained weight throughout his childhoodThe blurb speaks of the author considering ''an older, getting up less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of where I am. Add to twenty one stone as a teenagerthat my love of the natural world, he loathed his body of those aspects of the poetic and ended up starving himselflyrical that are about style not form, becoming anorexic in a desperate effort to be thin andsubstance most of all, thereforeabout connection. Of course, successfulthis book had my name on it. Perhaps this is where his empathy comes from? It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. That when he stands a woman in front of a wall of mirrors in her underwear, he actually truly understands what I am pleased to have it is to loathe your own bodyfall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091938392</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Wynn1906852472|title=Two Sons in a War Zone: AfghanistanWild Child: The True Story of Growing Up a Father's ConflictNomad|author=Ian Mathie|rating=3.5
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|summary=It's almost a nightly occurrence – that For Ian Mathie fans there is good and bad news item which contains . Ian has come up with the words '… has been killed missing link in Afghanistan' and we think his narrative, the story of a young lifevery unusual childhood (yes, or young lives cut tragically shortthe very years that made him the amazing man he became). TheyThe bad – well it're fresh-faced young men or women at what should have been s hardly news two years later – is that the beginning of their adult life and now they are no morebook is published posthumously. You feel for them and their familiesAs always, but what about the families who have people they love out in Afghanistanit's beautifully written, who live each day with many exciting moments. What I most enjoyed was the worry feeling that many of the knock will be coming to their door? Stephen Wynn has two sons who have done tours of duty questions in Afghanistan and who Ian Mathie's later books are likely to do so againanswered in ''Wild Child'' with a satisfying clunk. Seemingly all that'Two Sons s now left in a War Zone' the drawer is his story of how he copes with the unrelenting pressureunpublishable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570244</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Don Mullan1999811402|title=The Boy Who Wanted to FlyPainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=34.5
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|summary=There is It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a Foreward by both Pele and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Names lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to make most of us sit up plant when and noticewhere for the best results. The title is certainly quirky answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and Mullan is probably hoping that prospective readers will be saying to themselves, whatsee's this all about then. Good startThen I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, I thoughtfinally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). Then I realised found out that there's an awful lot of football more to what goes on in this book. Even although it's a slim, sliver of a book, thereMajor Trauma Centre than you's no getting away ll ever glean from the subject matter. Football. I don't 'doCasualty'' football. So, I counted to ten, put on but that isn't really what I hoped was a good reviewerthe book's face and started to read ...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907756019</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Megan Rix|title=The Puppy That Came For Christmas and Stayed Forever|rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=Megan Rix and husband Ian took on two massive challenges at the same timeabout. Their failure There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to conceive a child became something be the real passion of an issue with Megan beingHartley's life, as she herself said 'north of fortybut it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Time was passing quickly and it looked as though IVF was the only option if they were to Did we have the long-a category for child. It's time-consuming and traumatic. At doing the same time impossible the couple became involved with a charity which provides helper dogs for people with disabilities. hard way'? Puppies come to a family for six months to do their basic training and then move on. And Yep - that was how Emma, a soft, sweet-natured, adorable puppy came into their lives's the one. Predictably, they fell in love with herIt's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951062</amazonuk>
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