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|author=Irina Ratushinskaya
|title=Grey is the Colour of Hope
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=In April 1983 [[:Category:Irina Ratushinskaya|Irina Ratushinskaya]] was convicted of 'agitation carried on for the purpose of subverting or wrecking the Soviet Regime'. She had dared to defend human rights and to ask questions of the Soviet system via her writing in general and poetry in particular. The penalty that came with the conviction was 7 years in a labour camp followed by 5 years in internal exile. In [[In the Beginning by Irina Ratushinskaya|In the Beginning]], her first autobiography, Irina touches on that time of her life. Now, ''Grey is the Colour of Hope'' goes back to look at it in detail.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473637228</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Irina Ratushinskaya
|summary= Author Bruce Hugman has been a school teacher, probation officer, smallholder, university lecturer, PR Professional, is an international communications consultant and teacher in healthcare and patient safety. Having nursed two partners through the final stages of AIDS, and survived the 2004 Asian Tsunami. A varied and interesting life then – and it is the first thirty years of it that Hugman chooses to concentrate on here.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1508423709</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Alison Pick
|title=Between Gods
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary= Alison Pick's paternal grandparents escaped Czechoslovakia just before the Holocaust by bribing the Nazis for visas to Canada; the rest of the family died in Auschwitz. They spent their whole lives trying to pass as Christians, and Pick's father, too, was reluctant to have anything to do with Judaism. Pick only learned he was Jewish through a conversation overheard when she was 11.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472225090</amazonuk>
}}

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