==Autobiography==
{{newreview
|author=Pattie Boyd and Penny Junor
|title=Wonderful Today: The Autobiography of Pattie Boyd
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Pattie Boyd will always be remembered for one unique, extraordinary claim to fame. She became the wife of arguably the two most famous and revered rock guitarists of the era, George Harrison and Eric Clapton, and thus inspired three of their compositions which became three of the age's seminal love songs, namely 'Something', 'Layla', and 'Wonderful Tonight'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755316436</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jean Baggott
|summary=''Something's just come in that might appeal to you'', said Sue from The Bookbag, having just taken delivery of ''Bête de Jour''. Pleased to be thought of, I never mustered the courage to ask whether this thought was motivated by a previous liking for bloke lit, or by the book's subtitle: ''The Intimate Adventures of an Ugly Man''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007312741</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joe Queenan
|title=Closing Time
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Joe Queenan made good despite a deprived and neglected childhood. His world was a far cry from the middle class background of most aspiring writers of his generation. He grew up in Philadelphia, born to parents so immersed in their own problems that they made little attempt to love or care for their four children. Practically the only way his father provided a role model was in his love of reading. Otherwise, he was an alcoholic, frequently beating his young children.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330458272</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Carr
|title=The Night of the Gun
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=When you decide to take drugs for the first time, according to most, it's rarely a class 'A' variety - usually it's kids messing around with cannabis. This is how David Carr began his love affair with illicit substances, clearly not even for one second imagining what it would eventually do to him and everyone around him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847396283</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cylin Busby and John Busby
|title=The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir
|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=''When my dad dies, his body will go to the Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston'', ''though I suspect they are mostly interested in his head... His was in an interesting case - the lower half of his jaw'' ''was removed when he was shot in the head with a shotgun. His tongue was torn in half, his teeth and gums blown'' ''away, leaving a bit of bone that was once his chin connected with dangling flesh at the front of his face.''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802015</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ronan Smith
|title=Lord of the Rams: The Greatest Story Never Told
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=When you read ''Lord of the Rams'' you could be forgiven for thinking that you're hearing about someone with a split personality. Our author, Ronan Smith, is a true gentleman and a real delight when you're exchanging pleasantries. He's good to his mother and not just because he doesn't get home that often. Then we have the subject of his autobiography – ''Rambo'', ''Lord of the Rams'' or, more usually, simply ''the Rams''. You'll find it unnerving that the author speaks of his other self in the third person - and that's before we get to the strange nicknames which people acquire, the fact that there's nothing which can't be made into a joke and the drinking…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1425164846</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Coleen Nolan
|title=Upfront and Personal: The Autobiography
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=As a child, I was a huge fan of the Nolan Sisters. When ''I'm in the Mood for Dancing'' hit the charts in 1979, I was ten years old. Bernie was my favourite Nolan at the time and in recent years, I have enjoyed watching her acting in shows like ''The Bill''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0283070889</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rick Wakeman
|title=Grumpy Old Rock Star
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Rick Wakeman wrote and published a more conventional autobiography, ''Say Yes!'' in 1985, and it has so far never been updated. This, written with the aid of ghost-writer Martin Roach, takes a totally different approach, being a selection of episodes from his sixty years in more or less random order. In theory it might seem rather disjointed, but in practice it works brilliantly.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090056</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Belle de Jour
|title=The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Following the recent success with ITV2's highly-publicised TV version of Belle de Jour's online blog, starring Billie Piper, it comes as no surprise that sales for her 2005 book, ''The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl'', sky-rocketed. After all, who doesn't want to hear all the profound details of working in the London sex trade?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753819236</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emma Charles
|title=How Could He Do It?
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Emma Charles was on the edge of thinking that she and her family were doing quite well. They were an ordinary family – mum, dad, two daughters, three dogs, a rabbit and a couple of guinea pigs. Sprinkle in an Open University course for Mum, private schooling for the girls, a nice car in the drive of the nice house, good clothes and fun holidays – and you can understand why she might be rather pleased with the way that life was going.
Then her fifteen year old daughter, Tamsin, gave her a note, couched in graphic terms, saying that her father had been sexually abusing her for the past five years.
In moments the family's life fell apart. Gone were all the certainties, the hopes and the expectations. In came the police, Social Services and Child Protection Officers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090005</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jacqueline Walker
|title=Pilgrim State
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=I was intrigued and touched by Jacqueline Walker's beautiful memoir of her childhood in Jamaica and London in the 1960's. This is a book inevitably compared with Andrea Levy's ''Small Island''. It follows similar ground, but the main difference and great strength, is that it's the real narrative of mother and daughter. As a girl I was familiar with areas of London where Jackie Walker lived and heard some members of my family denigrate Caribbean immigrants. From this memoir, I've garnered much about the lived experience of my less advantaged contemporaries.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340960809</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alice Taylor
|title=The Parish
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Ours are hard times for humanity - for a number of reasons. Firstly, we don't talk to each other much. Second, we don't care about each other much - or at least enough to outwardly show it.
We would rather walk a mile when it's raining cats and dogs than knock on a neighbours' door asking for a cup of sugar. Maybe that's just me, but look around you - pregnant women struggle to get a seat on the train, 12-year olds get accidentally shot in a supermarket lane, and it's acceptable to throw a tantrum over wrong hair colour.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863223974</amazonuk>
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