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[[Category:New Reviews|Autobiography]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{adsense2}}Frontpage__NOTOC__{{newreview|isbn=0241636604|title=Wicked GamesThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Kelly LawrenceGary Stevenson
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|summary=Sometimes If you read were to bring up an image of a book that is supposed city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to be fiction, think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and immediately question whether it isn’t a true story loosely fictionalised jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with a few character names changedviolence, so poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the author doesn’t lose face if it’s not well receivedLondon School of Economics. ''Wicked Games'' Stevenson is no such book, because you’re told from the outset bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that it’s a real life erotic memoirmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. And It was his ability at what was, while the author still has some discretion regarding how much or how little she sharesessentially, you genuinely come away feeling like you’ve just read a startlingly intimate description of card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a real person’s private lifetrader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753541718</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=Will CohuEdel Rodriguez|title=The Wolf PitWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey
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|genre=AutobiographyGraphic Novels|summary=Up on the north Yorkshire Moors there’s a feature of the landscape known as the Wolf PitWe're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. It’s The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought to be of as a medieval trap into which wolves were drivensaviour of the country, but as you get close to ithas proven himself a Communist, it’s difficult and not done nearly enough to locate, marked only by create a change in the lightlevel playing field for all. Well, a slope those hours-long speeches of his were kind of the groundtaking his time away. Will Cohu doesn’t concentrate on Our narrator's family weren't in the pit but rather on nearby Bramble Carrhappiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the remote moorland cottage country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to which his grandparents moved in 1966some minor pro-Communism skirmish, almost on a whim such as Angola) and certainly with insufficient thought. George Brook was a manager at ICI in Billingham the father being watched and Dorothy was an artist watched, and musiciannot liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. They’d been brought together by a shared love The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the arts heat, but once installed at Bramble Carr and with little more than each other for company in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the marriage deteriorated into dark silence.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099542358</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith Kerr1035025299|title=Judith Kerr's Creatures: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Judith Kerr|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=In children's literature there are some authors whom you know are not just reliable, but always impressive. One of those names is [[:Category:Judith Kerr|Judith Kerr]]. For decades she's been delighting our children (and grandchildren) but it still came as something of a surprise Went to discover that she would be ninety in June 2013. To celebrate thisLondon, Harper Collins have published ''Creatures'' in which Judith tells not just her own story but that of the ''creatures'' - Took the characters in her books and her family - who have contributed to her inspirational life. It is, though, far more than just an autobiography with a marvellous collection of paintings, drawings and memorabilia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007513216</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDog|author=Gregg Wallace|title=Life on a Plate: The AutobiographyNina Stibbe
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|summary=I remember the early days of ''Masterchef'' when members of the public practiced certain dishes until they couldn't get them wrong and then presented them Nina Stibbe is returning to be judgedLondon for a sabbatical after being away for twenty years. Once it got past the point where you could be reasonably certain that there wouldnShe't be a major disaster with s been at Victoria's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn'no'' food on the table it t all got rather boring and finally faded. It had a reincarnation thoughthat conducive to writing, largely fronted by chef John Torode and greengrocer Gregg Wallaceas there's always something smallholding happening - as you might expect. Gone are The other side of the days decision was sealed when people said ''Greengrocer?'' as though they were referring to some lower life form and it's generally acknowledged that Wallace is a good anchor room became available (and better as he's grown in confidencecourtesy of Deborah Moggach) and that he has at a great palatevery reasonable rent. But where did he come from?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409143910</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kurt Vonnegut and Dan WakefieldChristopher Fowler|title=Kurt Vonnegut: LettersWord Monkey|rating=45
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|summary=It''Kurt Vonnegut: Letters'' is a fascinating tome s the first of personal correspondences between one August in the middle of a cool wet summer in East Anglia. I decided not to swim at the greats pool in American literature favour of going to my beach hut. The weather closed in, rain arrived, and the several individuals I decided not to do that either. When I finished reading this book, I realised it was because (a) I wanted to finish reading this book and institutions whose paths he’d crossed(b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shack. Written from the early forties up until 2007 No spoiler alerts, the year of Vonnegutdust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 'was's untimely death– and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. There is something very strange about being made to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dying, these letters enable readers to understand the workings of the mind behind classics such as ''Slaughterhouse-Five'' and ''Cat's Cradle''you know he actually is at that point, because he does. He did.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099582937</amazonuk>0857529625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil AnsellKit De Waal|title=Deer IslandWithout Warning and Only Sometimes|rating=3.54|genre=Autobiography|summary=Neil Ansell volunteered in the 1980s to work for an organization that provided support for the homeless. These homeless were the people other shelters would reject for various reasons (drinkAs Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, drugs“They f*** you up, etc.) but the group Neil worked for were a little different your mum and dad/ They may not mean to most similar charities. Due to this Neil experienced some of the worst case scenarios of being down and out in London, and along the way befriended many interesting but ultimately ill-fated people. To escape they do” Without Warning and recover from a life full Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of brief friendships, poverty parenthood and untimely death Neil travelled to the Isle of Jura off the West coast of Scotlandbonds that bind family. Jura came to be This book is a special place for him and of all places in memoir focussing on the world it was the one most author’s formative years as a teenager living in his hearta lower class area of Birmingham. Deer Island Her father is Neil’s account of his life from St. Kitts in the 1980s Caribbean and his discovery of Jura; it her mother isan 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, in effecther class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with care, his love song , and the kind of anger only a child can express to the island that has been his sanctuarytheir parents.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908213132</amazonuk>1472284852
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kristine Barnett1638485216|title=The SparkBlack, White, and Gray All Over: A MotherBlack Man's Story of Nurturing Genius Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds
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|summary=The tutor stands at the front of the university class''Corruption is not department, frantically scribbling equations on the large whiteboard in front of himgender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. He is well respected by his students; an expert in several fields, including general relativity, string theory, quantum field theory and biophysicsPeriod. In fact, he recently unveiled a brand new theory that may put him in line for a Nobel Prize'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon DawsonBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=Pigs in Clover: Or How I Accidentally Fell in Love with the Good LifeMay Be Wrong|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Simon Dawson really had no intention of leading a life of self-sufficiency - he accidentally fell into When the beginnings of it at a New YearDalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I's Eve party which was a little too noisy for him m inclined to be completely certain what think it was he was agreeing doesn't really matter how the rest of the world responds toyour book. But even then there was no need for it to go too farI know, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. After all, this man's heart was in London He knows (and he was an estate agent - a member of the profession whose place at core so do I) that it matters very much how the top rest of the opprobrium ladder was only made wobbly after a serious PR campaign on behalf of journalists and politicians. But his wife was determined that she couldn't stand being a property solicitor any longer and so they sold their flat in London and rented a property on Exmoor and Simon began a weekly commute - weekends world responds to this book, because it tells the truth as it is, in Devon and most of the week in Londonearly 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780285019</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara Arrowsmith-Younggareth_steel|title=The Woman who Changed Her Brain: How We Can Shape our Minds and Other Tales of Cognitive TransformationNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel
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|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Imagine feeling like I don't often begin my reviews with a stranger in your own body, unable warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to comprehend 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 world around companion volume you've been looking for. Symbols, words and numbers swirl in an unintelligible mix on As a TV show the page and make no sense at all. Activities author would argue that others perform with ease are a struggle for you''All Creatures'' lacked realism, leading to deep feelings of frustrationas do other similar programmes. This was Gareth Steel says that the challenge that Barbarabook is not suitable for younger readers and -Arrowsmithafter reading -Young faced daily as a result of her complex learning disabilitiesI agree with him. Her intense feelings of despair even caused her He says that he's written it to attempt suicideinform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563584</amazonuk>
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|summary=Local government isn’t what it used How to be. People say this with regret, but reading Malcolm Philips’ memoir you will probably be left with summarise the impression that this is life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a Very Good Thing. Because fun as it may have been pithy sentence to be working in the council in the 60s and 70s, if this entertaining account is anything to go bykick off a review of his memoir? Do you know, it was also an awful shamblesI really don't think I can. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909183156</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
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|title=We Need to Talk About Money
|author=Otegha Uwagba
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|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=Helga Weiss0571365884|title=Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account My Mess is a Bit of Life : Adventures in a Concentration CampAnxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett
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|summary=This seems to be quite Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a rare book, and I doubt if there will be too many further examples in the years to comechild. I don't mean to say that Holocaust testimonies are thin on She would worry about whether the monsters under the ground, for I've reviewed several on this site recently. I mean bed were comfortable: it was the fact that this is newly published sort of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and by an author who is still alivefar between. There is something On a little heart-warming visit to know that this lady a therapist, as an adult, when she was living and able completely unable to be interviewed by speak about what was wrong with her translator in 2011, it was suggested that she should write it down and presumably able to answer his editorial notes and queries. Of course, that fact does highlight the selling point ''My Mess is a Bit of this book – a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the author was a very young girl when WWII startedresult - or so we are given to believe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921416</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael JagoDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John BinghamA Tattoo on my Brain
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|summary=John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, volunteered to serve in the army at the outbreak Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of the Second World War, but his sight prevented front-line service and he joined MI5self. Prior to I have been directly affected by this he’d been a journalistcruel disease, working on the '’Hull Daily Mail’’ before moving to Fleet Streetas have many. He found a natural home in MI5 Your memories and personality worn away like a considerable talent for interrogation. At a statue over time when spies are thought of as being flamboyant, he was affected the opposite - a small, bespectacled man who could easily blend into the backgroundelements. His greatest skill was It seems as if nature wants that he was final victory over you and your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a patient listener. [[:Category:John Le Carre|John Le Carre]] has said that nobody neurologist who knew John was diagnosed with Alzheimers and the work he was doing could have missed the description of Smiley in has documented his [[Call for the Dead by John le Carre|first novel]]. Le Carre was a junior colleague journey in MI5''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849545138</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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|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=Susannah Cahalan0008333173|title=Brain on FireHungry: My Month A Memoir of MadnessWanting More|author=Grace Dent|rating=45
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|summary=One day Susannah Cahalan was a bright, outgoing tabloid reporter in New York, with a promising career ahead I'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one of herthe judges on ''Masterchef''. Within weeks a mysterious illness reduced her You know that you're going to get an incoherent shadow of her former self, struggling with basic tasks, and left doctors at one honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of the world's top medical centres baffledtime. In ''Brain You also ponder on Fire'', Cahalan – now how she can look so elegant with all that good food in the 'post-recovery' stage front of her life – attempts to recapture . I've often wondered about the woman behind the memories media image and events from the her 'month 'Hungry: A Memoir of madnessWanting More' before diagnosis ' is a stunning read which will make you laugh and curebreak your heart in equal measures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846147395</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pam Weaver1504321383|title=Bath Times Single, Again, and Again, and Nursery RhymesAgain|author=Louisa Pateman|rating=4.5
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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 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 RhymesYou can'' sees Pam progress from a shy t be happy and awkward teenager to a competent and caring nursery nursefulfilled on your own. Reluctant to stay too long in any position, Pam tries her hand at You are not complete until you find a variety of jobs, 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 wardman''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007488440</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rod StewartSakinu Ahronglong|title=Rod: The autobiographyHunter School
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|summary=There The flyleaf to this little collection tells us that it is only one Roda work of fiction. That's possibly misleading. One of the first things I noticed about this book was that his surname did am not appear on sure whether it is "fiction" in the spine sense that Ahronglong made it all up, or whether it is as the front cover of blurb goes on to say ''recollections, folklore and autobiographical stories''. It feels like the dust jacket – only on latter. It feels like the inside flapsstories he tells about his experiences as a child, as an adolescent, as an adult are real and true. HoweverBut memory is a fickle thing, as someone whose career and maybe poetic licence has kept him a household name for taken over four decades, here and there and maybe calling it fiction means that its safer and therefore more people will read it is probably superfluous anyway. More people should.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780890524</amazonuk>1999791282}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1544641923|title=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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Salman Rushdie0241446732|title=Joseph AntonOur 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=Salman Rushdie's memoir The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of, predominantly, the fatwa years is completely gripping - albeit not necessarily in the way the author intended I suspect. For any lover parenting of literature it's a fascinating insight into the man. People write memoirs largely to put their side of the storytwo daughters. Rushdie is of course supremely intelligent Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and a gifted wordsmith talking and yet while aspects of the story remain shocking and induce both anger and incredulity that the situation her sister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with what was allowed to go as far as it did and for so longhappening. In such circumstances, it's probably not natural to seek a book that will change your views of Rushdie the mansolution close to home, but eventually, not least as he displays many of it became clear to the traits family that the press ascribed they were ''burned-out people on a burned-out planet''. If they were to find a way to him. Oh why do our heroes always have live happily again their solution would need to be so imperfect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093975</amazonuk>radical.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Roche191280493X|title=Born to Ride: The Autobiography Coming of Stephen RocheAge|author=Danny Ryan
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|genre=SportAutobiography|summary=With all the revelations about the systemised doping culture surrounding Lance Armstrong's team in 'He began writing novels and poetry at the 1990sage of twelve, but it was interesting to read take him a story of a time before cycling was embroiled in one drugs scandal after anotherfurther forty-eight years to realise that he wasn’t very good at either. Although perhaps not as memorable as Armstrong's career, Stephen Roche's will hold a place in cycling history Consistently unpublished for 1987all that time, when he became only the second man to win the Tour de France, the Giro D'Italia and the World Championships in the same seasonremains a shining example of hope over experience... A quarter of a century after that remarkable feat, Roche has produced his autobiography, ''Born to Ride''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224091905</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Halina Wagowska190874572X|title=The TestimonyLetters from Tove|author=Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)|rating=3.5
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|summary=The Holocaust must have been particularly horrendous for Back at the young survivor. Halina here says how she had barely three years beginning of schooling before the events of the Final Solution took overcentury, and her life was changed for everI went on holiday to Nepal. It was a life a little different to those around her – I met a nanny who took her to a cathedral wonderful Finnish woman and brought her home full we became sort-of the Catholic anti-Semitic sentimentfriends. Religion and its effects were of little consequence – she I can't remember if it was more worried on that those seeing holiday or a photo of her and a dog later one that Paula told me I really had more admiration for the look of the dog than of herto read Tove Jansson. But things were only to change for the worst – existence in the Lodz ghetto, and I do know that it was four years laterthat I finally acquired an English translation of The Summer Book, the death camps. This book is just not arch enough to be too structured and self-aware, so when Halina sees those by tram travelling through the ghetto and wonders what that I eagerly awaited the life ''Sort Of'' translations of the gentiles on it is like, this only provides one small glimpse of how her life turned into one of those thinking rest of Jansson's work and helping others, with special affinity for those in minorities everywheredevoured them as soon as I could get my hands on them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1742703577</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Balding1908745819|title=My Animals and Other FamilySurfacing |author=Kathleen Jamie
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|summary=Clare Balding was born into Sometimes when people suggest that you read a racing family - her fathercertain book, Ianthey 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, was unless it turns out that we didn't like the trainer of Mill Reef book. That's a rare experience. People who won the Derby in 1971are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, the same year that Clare I was borntold why. Whilst her father would never forget The blurb speaks of the year that his horse won the Derby he would usually fail to remember that it was also the year author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of his daughterherself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's birthnot a bad description of where I am. Horses came first and they were Add to that my love of the priority in Ian Balding's life: natural world, of those aspects of the family poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had to adjust accordinglymy name on it. He It was a gifted and successful trainer who understood the animals in his care and his record, including Mill Reef's Derby success speaks written for itselfme. It would have found its way to me eventually. Clare's childhood was separate from the life of the racing stable but she inherited her family's love of animalsI am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921467</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Coleman1906852472|title=The Train in the NightWild Child: A Story of Music and LossGrowing Up a Nomad|author=Ian Mathie|rating=4.5
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|summary=Picture the scenarioFor Ian Mathie fans there is good and bad news. You have always been passionate about music, Ian has come up with a catholic taste which embraces classicalthe missing link in his narrative, soul and heavy rock with the story of a bit of everything in betweenvery unusual childhood (yes, and your job the very years that made him the amazing man he became). The bad – well it's hardly news two years later – is that of an arts and music journalistthe book is published posthumously. In your mid-forties you wake up one morning to find your whole world changed overnight by Sudden Neursosensory Hearing Loss. It has a devastating effect on your balance when subjected to any kind of soundAs always, whether it is an aeroplane overhead's beautifully written, with many exciting moments. What I most enjoyed was the roar feeling that many of the crowd at questions in Ian Mathie's later books are answered in ''Wild Child'' with a football match, or satisfying clunk. Seemingly all that's now left in the music which you once adored with every fibre of your being. Your head drawer is filled with tinnitus, like a very poorly-tuned radio which lacks an off switchunpublishable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093576</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Prue Leith1999811402|title=Relish: My Life on a PlatePainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley
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|summary=Prue Leith was born in South AfricaIt'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 lifestyle book, the daughter of a prominent actress who was considered but you'dangerously liberal' in her views re not going to get advice on racewhat to plant when and where for the best results. Prue was largely unaware of The answer would be something along the horrors lines of apartheid 'try it and had see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a privileged lifestylebusker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). She came I found out that there's an awful lot more to London what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the early sixties but still retains an awareness of colour as book's about. There's a legacy lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of her childhood. What Hartley's life, but it didn't come from her childhood was her love of cooking - she drifted actually fit into catering almost accidentally but went on to set up the entertainment genre either. Did we have a very successful catering company and then to open Leithcategory for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's Restaurant the one. Her cookery school and regular food columns in national newspapers followed soon afterIt's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857384058</amazonuk>
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