==Autobiography==
{{newreview
|author=Gok Wan
|title=Through Thick and Thin
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Famous for his sensitivity and understanding with women, encouraging them and enabling them to accept themselves, and their bodies, as they are, Gok Wan's autobiography sadly tells a very different story with regards to his own body acceptance. Having gained weight throughout his childhood, getting up to twenty one stone as a teenager, he loathed his body and ended up starving himself, becoming anorexic in a desperate effort to be thin and, therefore, successful. Perhaps this is where his empathy comes from? That when he stands a woman in front of a wall of mirrors in her underwear, he actually truly understands what it is to loathe your own body.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091938392</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stephen Wynn
|summary=As a teacher currently anticipating (I won't say looking forward to!) an OFSTED inspection, school inspectors aren't generally my favourite people. I'll make an exception for Gervase Phinn, though, as he's entertained me for many hours with his previous books on his time in the Dales doing the job. I was expecting his memoirs of his childhood to be equally entertaining – and feel slightly letdown, if I'm honest.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718149114</amazonuk>
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{{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
|title=The Girl on the Wall: One Life's Rich Tapestry
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Jean Baggott is now seventy two and in the final year of her history degree at Warwick University. After almost a lifetime of bending her life to the needs of other people she has decided that now is the time to look after herself – the eleven year old girl whose picture hangs on her wall. She plans to achieve what that girl would want her to achieve and from this she's found great fulfilment.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848311265</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Abby Lee
|title=Girl With a One Track Mind: Exposed: Further Revelations of a Sex Blogger
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Abby Lee is back with a brand new book that's sure to bring her readers closer to her than they've ever been before.
For those who missed the media spectacle that surrounded her first book, 'Girl With a One Track Mind' followed twelve months in the life of 'Abby Lee', a film runner who became an internet sensation after starting a blog in 2004 detailing her sexual exploits and thoughts. The book became an immediate success with men and women alike and earned Abby a couple of thousand more hits on her blog ever day.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330509691</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Leslie Kenton
|title=Love Affair: The Memoir of a Forbidden Father-daughter Relationship
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=For some years, I had been aware of Leslie Kenton's books on healthy living, and also of Stan Kenton's work as a jazz bandleader, though I had never made the connection until now. This family memoir reveals all about the famous father and later-to-be-famous daughter, and it is a disturbing tale.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091910536</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alice Taylor
|title=The Village
|rating=3
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Two other authors, [[:Category:Miss Read|Miss Read]] and [[:Category:Rebecca Shaw|Rebecca Shaw]], have already purloined the village for their own. I so wish that the publishers had chosen a more distinctive title for this reprint. It's the Irishness of the memoir that will attract English readers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224202</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Margaret Drabble
|title=The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Imagine the scene: a major publishing house receives the latest pitch for a book. Its basis is a history of the jigsaw, interwoven with a highly personal memoir of an ever so slightly irascible maiden aunt with whom the author partook in the delights of puzzling. Two words save this pitch from oblivion: Margaret Drabble. Faced with the same dilemma in a bookshop, the reader would be wise to follow the publisher's hunch and buy this book - it is a gentle delight from start to finish.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843546205</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alice Taylor
|title=To School Through The Fields
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=To School Through the Fields is the memoir of a farmer’s daughter who grew up in rural County Cork in the 1940s (though the book never mentions the date of when it is set). Taylor makes it clear at the beginning that she is writing a nostalgic look back at the era of her childhood, before the 'changing winds of time' and then presents a series of anecdotes about her parents, her family and some of the other characters who lived in her village.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224210</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Phil Daniels
|title=Phil Daniels: Class Actor
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=If we were asked to nominate the archetypal Cockney actor on large or small screen over the last twenty years or so, Phil Daniels would undoubtedly come high on the list. Born in Islington in 1958 and raised in Kings Cross, he was a graduate of the Anna Scher Theatre in the 1970s.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847376207</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nicole Dryburgh
|title=Talk to the Hand
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh in her book ''The Way I See It'', which she wrote at eighteen, and which detailed her battles with cancer and the loss of her sight. We loved the warts-and-all picture of her life that she gave us then, and so we were really pleased to see that she's written a second book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Mathie
|title=The Man of Passage
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Ian Mathie's association with Africa began when his father was posted to what was then Northern Rhodesia when Mathie was just four years old. School was in a convent and was run by German and Italian nuns and for a while he was the only white child amongst a couple of hundred Africans. Even when he was joined by others he was still part of an ethnic minority although he didn't realise it! He was taught in the local language and grew up with the local children. It was his home and was to be the centre of his life for decades to come.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955312418</amazonuk>
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