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[[Category:New Reviews|Autobiography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->==Autobiography== <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Quindlen0241636604|title=Lots of Candles, Plenty of CakeThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5
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|summary=I first encountered Anna Quindlen when I read [[Life with Beau: A Tale If you were to bring up an image of a Dog and His Family by Anna Quindlen|Life with Beau: A Tale city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of a Dog and His Family]]someone like Gary Stevenson. I'm a sucker for nonA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-fiction books about dogs but what struck me was that stripe suit and his background is the book could have been trite. Instead it East End, where he was elegantfamiliar with violence, witty poverty and with a real eye for detail and social nuanceinjustice. It There was genuinely about life ''with'' Beau and what the family learned from him rather than no posh public school on his CV - as so many such books are - what the family but he had done for been to the dogLondon School of Economics. The book struck Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a particular chord facility with me as our older dog numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, we knewessentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, on borrowed time (although her innate stubbornness kept her going for another two years) and Quindlen helped me to think about what Rosie had given usthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955903X</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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mac CartyEdel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The Vagaries Of Swing 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 (Footprints on 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 Margate Sands kind of Time)heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035025299|title=Went to London, Took the Dog|author=Nina Stibbe
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|summary=Mac Carty tells us that the catalyst Nina Stibbe is returning to London for 'The Vagaries of Swing' was the BBC television series 'True Love' which portrayed a series of romantic encounters all set by the sea in his home town of Margatesabbatical after being away for twenty years. But Carty has taken the original idea - about relationships between people - and run with it, extending She's been at Victoria'loves smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all that conducive to writing, as there' into ''passion'', say for cricket, or (at the other end of the scale) s always something smallholding happening - as a human encounter which ends in violenceyou might expect. Whilst the television series might have been The other side of the catalyst for the book there decision was another and probably more compelling reason. When his friend Mike died he realised that he had no one with whom to share his fund sealed when a room became available (courtesy of stories about growing up in Margate, all of which had been revisited on Deborah Moggach) at a regular basis and usually over a pint. I've just read the resultvery reasonable rent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1291336761</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rupert ChristiansenChristopher Fowler|title=I Know You're Going to be Happy: A Story of Love and BetrayalWord Monkey|rating=3.5
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|summary=Kathleen Lyon, whose family were respectable and hard working but with no claim to celebrity other than a distant relationship to It's the [[The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life first of John Bingham by Michael Jago|Earl of Clanmorris]] married Michael Christiansen, scion August in the middle of a newspaper family, cool wet summer in a fashionable London church East Anglia. I decided not to swim at the pool in 1948favour of going to my beach hut. Both were talented The weather closed in, rain arrived, and successful journalists and they were very much in loveI decided not to do that either. ''When I know you're going to be happy''finished reading this book, wrote I realised it was because (a senior Fleet Street figure ) I wanted to finish reading this book and Rupert Christiansen wryly points out that this was too tempting (b) I did not want to fatedo so anywhere near my shack. There were two children of No spoiler alerts, the marriage and when Rupert dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 'was four ' – and his sister Anna just a few months old Michael Christiansen announced first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. There is something very strange about being made to the family that laugh by a photographer from his paper would be coming to take pictures of them all man who repeatedly reminds you that afternoon - he is dying, and you know he then told his wife actually is at that their eleven-year marriage was over and point, because he was leaving to live with his secretarydoes. He did.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780721242</amazonuk>0857529625
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{{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 Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and the 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 St. Kitts in the Caribbean and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by and marrying a black man. This intersectionality plays a large role in the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her race, her class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with care, love, and the kind of anger only a child can express to their parents.|isbn=1472284852}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mollie Moran1638485216|title=Aprons Black, White, and Silver SpoonsGray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds
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|summary=At the tender age of 14''Corruption is not department, young Mollie Browne was forced to put her idyllic childhood behind her and embark on the world of workgender or race specific. Rebellious and strong-willed, young Mollie had no intentions of working in her grandmother’s shop as her parents had planned and sought It has everything to escape her small-town life in rural Norfolkdo with character. Fortunately for Mollie, a position was available for a scullery maid in a townhouse in KensingtonPeriod. Would this free spirit manage to make the transition from carefree days climbing trees to working 15 hour sessions of repetitive, back-breaking toil?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718159993</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William NicolsonBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=The Romantic Economist: A Story of Love and Market ForcesI May Be Wrong|rating=45|genre=Autobiography|summary=William Nicolson was a student - well a student When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it doesn't really matter how the rest of economics, the world responds to be accurateyour book. He had an uncanny knack of losing girlfriends far too quicklyI know, having read the last one having departed book in a personal best time of six weeksquestion, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. Actually He knows (and at core so do I don't think ) that was too bad - I've encountered a lot of men who only ever managed about thirty minutes - but it worried Will and he considered applying what he had learned as an economist to his relationships with matters very much how the fair sex. Girls were something rest of a mystery to him but he was sure that if he used his ability to reduce a complex the world responds to a set of rational principles then he should be on to a winner. Or twothis book, because it tells the truth as it is, in the early 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780721021</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susannah Cahalangareth_steel|title=Brain on Fire: My Month of MadnessNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel
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|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=One day Susannah Cahalan was I don't often begin my reviews with a bright, outgoing tabloid reporter in New York, warning but with a promising career ahead ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of her. Within weeks a mysterious illness reduced her to an incoherent shadow of her former self, struggling with basic tasks, vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and left doctors at one of Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the worldcompanion volume you's top medical centres baffledve been looking for. In As a TV show the author would argue that ''Brain on FireAll Creatures''lacked realism, Cahalan – now in as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the 'postbook is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading -recoveryI agree with him. He says that he' stage of her life – attempts s written it to recapture the memories inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and events from the her distressing issues but it doesn'month of madness' before diagnosis t lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and cureeating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846147395</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pam WeaverDave Letterfly Knoderer|title=Bath Times and Nursery RhymesSpeedy: Hurled Through Havoc
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|summary=In 1961, a young 16 year old girl called Pam Weaver embarks on a career path that will change her How to summarise the life. Fed up with the tedium of working on the broken biscuit counter at Woolworths, she decides to train for her NNEB. ''Bath Times and Nursery Rhymes'' sees Pam progress from a shy and awkward teenager to Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a competent and caring nursery nurse. Reluctant pithy sentence to stay too long in any position, Pam tries her hand at kick off a variety review of jobshis memoir? Do you know, including her initial employment in a Council-run children’s home, working as a private nanny to a rich young widow and an eventful but emotional stint in a premature baby wardI really don't think I can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007488440</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Salman Rushdie0008350388|title=Joseph AntonWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba
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|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Salman Rushdie's memoir of, predominantly, the fatwa years is completely gripping - albeit not necessarily in the way the author intended I suspect. For any lover of literature it's To be a fascinating insight into the man. People write memoirs largely to put their side of the story. Rushdie dark-skinned Black woman is of course supremely intelligent and a gifted wordsmith and yet while aspects of the story remain shocking and induce both anger and incredulity that the situation was allowed to go be seen as far as it did and for so longless desirable, it's probably not a book that will change your views of Rushdie the manless hireable, not least as he displays many of the traits that the press ascribed to himless intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts... Oh why do our heroes always have '' ''We Need to be so imperfect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093975</amazonuk>}}Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonio Caluccio0571365884|title=A Recipe for My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett
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|summary=Antonio Carluccio is a name you know well if you've any interest in food and particularly Italian food. He's well known Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a cook, restaurateur, deli owner, television personality and authorchild. In everything he's done he's concentrated on She would worry about whether the flavour of monsters under the food - this isn't bed were comfortable: it was the man to turn to sort of life where if you're interested in fine dining as there's a lack of frills and ostentation - and he has his own phrase she had nothing to describe his vision. 'Mof mof' stands for 'maximum of flavour worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and minimum of fuss'far between. He's On a visit to a man after my own heart but therapist, as an adult, when I thought she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her it I realised was suggested that I knew little, beyond the occasional news item, she should write it down and ''My Mess is a Bit of Carluccio a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the man. His autobiography came at just the right timeresult - or so we are given to believe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1742703925</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Halina WagowskaDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=The TestimonyA Tattoo on my Brain
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|summary=The Holocaust must Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I have been particularly horrendous for the young survivordirectly affected by this cruel disease, as have many. Halina here says how she had barely three years of schooling before the events of the Final Solution took over, Your memories and her life was changed for ever. It was personality worn away like a life a little different to those around her – a nanny who took her to a cathedral and brought her home full of statue over time affected the Catholic anti-Semitic sentimentelements. Religion and its effects were of little consequence – she was more worried It seems as if nature wants that those seeing a photo of her and a dog had more admiration for the look of the dog than of her. But things were only to change for the worst – existence in the Lodz ghetto, final victory over you and later, the death campsyour dignity. This book is just not arch enough to be too structured and self-aware, what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so when Halina sees those by tram travelling through the ghetto and wonders what the life of the gentiles on it admirable. Daniel Gibbs is like, this only provides one small glimpse of how her life turned into one of those thinking of a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and helping others, with special affinity for those has documented his journey in minorities everywhere''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1742703577</amazonuk>1108838936
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey
|author=Hannah Jackson
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|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|authorisbn=Clare Balding0008333173|title=My Animals and Other FamilyHungry: A Memoir of Wanting More|author=Grace Dent
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|summary=Clare Balding was born into a racing family - her father, Ian, was the trainer I'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one of Mill Reef who won the Derby in 1971, the same year that Clare was bornjudges on ''Masterchef''. Whilst her father would never forget the year You know that his horse won you're going to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of the Derby he would usually fail to remember time. You also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all that it was also the year good food in front of his daughter's birthher. Horses came first and they were the priority in Ian Balding I's life: ve often wondered about the family had to adjust accordingly. He was a gifted and successful trainer who understood woman behind the animals in his care media image and his record, including Mill Reef's Derby success speaks for itself. Clare's childhood was separate from the life Hungry: A Memoir of the racing stable but she inherited her familyWanting More''s love of animalsis a stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in equal measures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921467</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Coleman1504321383|title=The Train in the Night: A Story of Music Single, Again, and Again, and LossAgain|author=Louisa Pateman
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|summary=Picture the scenario. ''You have always been passionate about music, with a catholic taste which embraces classical, soul and heavy rock with a bit of everything in between, can't be happy and fulfilled on your job is that of an arts and music journalistown. In your mid-forties You are not complete until you wake find a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up one morning to find your whole world changed overnight by Sudden Neursosensory Hearing Lossbelieve. It has a devastating effect on your balance when subjected wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to any kind of sound, whether it 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 an aeroplane overhead, rescued by the roar of 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 crowd at a football match, or the music which you once adored with every fibre of your beingexpectation that they will marry and have children. Your head It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is filled with tinnitus, like a very poorly-tuned radio which lacks an off switchchoice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093576</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Prue LeithSakinu Ahronglong|title=Relish: My Life on a PlateHunter School
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|summary=Prue Leith was born 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 South Africathe sense that Ahronglong made it all up, or whether it is as the daughter of a prominent actress who was considered blurb goes on to say ''recollections, folklore and autobiographical stories'dangerously liberal' in her views on race. Prue was largely unaware of It feels like the horrors of apartheid and had a privileged lifestylelatter. She came to London in It feels like the early sixties but still retains stories he tells about his experiences as a child, as an awareness of colour adolescent, as a legacy of her childhoodan adult are real and true. What didn't come from her childhood was her love of cooking - she drifted into catering almost accidentally but went on to set up But memory is a very successful catering company fickle thing, and then to open Leith's Restaurant 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. Her cookery school and regular food columns in national newspapers followed soon afterMore people should.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857384058</amazonuk>1999791282
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Grant Morrison1544641923|title=Supergods: Our World in the Age of the SuperheroAmbassadors Do It After Dinner|author=Sandra Aragona
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|summary=I enjoyed all three of Ian Mathie’s previous books so it’s probably no surprise It's tempting to find me praising this one toothink that the diplomatic life is privileged and luxurious. AlreadyIt might be privileged, for but family connections tell methat 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, this writer has set a high bar with his paredyou know), modest prose and authentic descriptions of life as an educated white man with unsophisticated mid-African tribes in but the middle of diplomatic spouse, the twentieth centuryaccompanying baggage, well, that's an entirely different matter. His everyday life in this book She (and it still usually is a perilous adventure – modern travel memoirs seem banal by comparison'she') can tell us exactly what goes on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906852138</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beth Raymer0241446732|title=Lay the FavouriteOur House is on Fire: A True Story about Playing to Win Scenes of a Family and a Planet in the Gambling UnderworldCrisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=It The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was a dream which brought Beth Raymer to Las Vegas, but an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the reality was that she ended up waiting tables in a lowparenting of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-end diner old Greta stopped eating and talking and living in a distinctly unsavoury motelher sister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with what was happening. A chance meeting brought her into contact with DinkIn such circumstances, the self-styled king of the cityit's sports betting and she moved into what was very much natural to seek a mansolution close to home, but eventually, it became clear to the family that they were 's world 'burned- of highout people on a burned-stakes gambling and a lot of people you wouldnout planet't necessarily want your daughter to know. This is the story of how Beth learned the trade and moved into the world of the big money where gambling regulations don't apply. Being sharp was what it was all aboutIf they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555395</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa Kite191280493X|title=Real Life: One Woman's Guide to Love, Men and Other Everyday DisastersComing of Age|author=Danny Ryan
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|summary=We're used to thinking about career women who have it all: 'He began writing novels and poetry at the high-flyer who goes home to her husbandage of twelve, children and immaculate house but it was to plan their next holiday and their social life. We might not know these people take him a further forty- but everything seems eight years to tell us realise that they're ''there''he wasn’t very good at either. What, thoughConsistently unpublished for all that time, he remains a shining example of the single woman, no longer in the first flush of youth (thathope over experience...'s probably nineteen, these days) who struggles just to keep going? What of the woman who struggles to keep the ' 'boiler'This a memoir from someone you have never heard of - but will feel like you have.' going and who is tempted to kidnap the television repairman and tie him to the bed because she's convinced that the television will stop working the moment he goes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780331916</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Agatha Christie and Mathew Prichard (editor)190874572X|title=The Grand Tour: Letters and photographs from the British Empire expeditionTove|author=Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)
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|genre=TravelAutobiography|summary=In 1922 Agatha Christie, already Back at the author beginning of three very successful booksthe century, was happily married with I went on holiday to Nepal. I met a small daughter, wonderful Finnish woman and her heartwe became sort-of-friends. I can's desire t remember if it was on that holiday or a later one that Paula told me I really had to continue writing while she led a quiet life in the countryread Tove Jansson. However her husband Archie I do know that it was becoming increasingly restless four years later that I finally acquired an English translation of The Summer Book, and disenchanted with working in that I eagerly awaited the City, and his longing for a change was suddenly to be fulfilled in a most unexpected way. An old friend, Major Belcher, 'blessed with great powers 'Sort Of'' translations of bluff', presented them both with the opportunity rest of a lifetime – to join him on a trip to several imperial outposts in preparation for the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition to be staged at Wembley. Archie would be his financial adviser, Jansson's work and Agatha was cordially invited for the trip, devoured them as soon as his wife. (Two-year-old Rosalind would have to stay at home, a decision which involved some soul-searching)I could get my hands on them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000744768X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tessa Hainsworth1908745819|title=Home to RoostSurfacing |author=Kathleen Jamie|rating=45
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|summary=There seems Sometimes 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 a rare experience. People who are sensitive to be hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a plethora bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the natural world, of those aspects of books the poetic and lyrical that are about people who have moved to unusual placesstyle not form, or changed lifestyle in middle age for a variety and substance most of reasonsall, about connection. This Of course, this book features a London family who had my name on it. It was written for me. It would have moved found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to Cornwall, and is the third (have it fall onto my path so far) in a series about their transitionquickly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848093756</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Abramson1906852472|title=The Puppy DiariesWild Child: Living with Growing Up a Dog Named Scout Nomad|author=Ian Mathie|rating=45|genre=PetsAutobiography|summary=Jill Abramson had a dog whom she adored - a White West Highland by the name of Buddy - For Ian Mathie fans there is good and after his death she wasn't certain that she wanted another dogbad news. Would she bond Ian has come up with the newcomer? Would she always be comparing missing link in his narrative, the pup with his predecessor? But - times change - and in 2009 Jill and her husband Henry brought home story of a Golden Retriever by very unusual childhood (yes, the very years that made him the name of Scoutamazing man he became). Over The bad – well it's hardly news two years later – is that the following year Abramson wrote a column about raising Scout for the New York Times website and book is published posthumously. As always, it's this column which forms beautifully written, with many exciting moments. What I most enjoyed was the feeling that many of the basis for questions in Ian Mathie's later books are answered in ''Wild Child''The Puppy Diaries: Living With with a Dog Named Scoutsatisfying clunk. Seemingly all that's now left in the drawer is unpublishable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444720635</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Beard1999811402|title=All in a Don's DayPainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Mary BeardIt's latest collection, very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails''All in a Don: originally I thought that as it's Dayloosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you', of her assembled blog pieces from 2009 until re not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be something along the end lines of 2011'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, covers similar concerns to her previous selectionbecame a busker, [[Itfinally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). I found out that there's A Donan awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn's Life by Mary Beard|Itt really what the book's a Donabout. There's Life]]. Professor Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and became Classics Professor at there in 2004. She is also an expert in Roman laughterlot about rock & roll, an interest which she fully indulges in seems to be the pages real passion of her TLS blogHartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. In her latest collection she bemoans Did we have a category for 'doing the parlous current state of both Education and impossible the Academy, and makes witty observations on matters as various as television chefs, what and how to visit in Rome and hard way'? Yep - that's the art and worth of completing references in one. It's an age when only positive things may be said about postgraduate job-seekersautobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685362</amazonuk>
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