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[[Category:New Reviews|Autobiography]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=Slow Getting UpThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Nate JacksonGary Stevenson|rating=4.5
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|summary=Sporting autobiographies are often written by those sports men and women who made it If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to the very pinnacle think of their professionsomeone like Gary Stevenson. Their stories surround past glories A hoodie and how they lifted themselves up above jeans replaces the great to become pin-stripe suit and his background is the very best. HoweverEast End, for every superstar footballer or tennis playerwhere he was familiar with violence, there needs to be a lot more average Joes poverty and Joettes for them injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to shine againstthe London School of Economics. And who Stevenson is to say that being an average player in bright - extremely bright - and he has a professional league is not an achievement in itself? facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Nate Jackson was one such ‘average’ player in the NFL – but would you call him He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his face?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00IO19CYW</amazonuk>ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Levels Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Lifeof a Vet|author=Julian BarnesSion Rowlands
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|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=If you read Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a broadsheet you will know 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 format opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this book from when it came out in hardback – indeed I recognised a great portion of was the third part as having been excerpted somewherejob for him. Part one of this triptych is a look back Before long, he was at pioneering aeronauts in hot air balloons – either Liverpool University. It hadn''hydrogen balloons'' or ''flame balloons'', whatever they aret - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. They may have had crash landingsIf anything, they may have suffered problems here and there and risked life and limb, but they travelled, they saw the world from unique angles, and almost in homage he'd wanted to Barnes' characters chasing the sun in an airplane in his own book, saw themselves as be a photographic negative writ large in shadow form on the tops of cloudsprofessional footballer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584530</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=To Bed On ThursdaysEdel Rodriguez|authortitle=Jenny Selby-GreenWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey
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|genre=AutobiographyGraphic Novels|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The advert asked 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 a young manall. Well, but seventeen year old Jenny Selbythose hours-Green applied anywaylong speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. She met all Our narrator's family weren't in the other attributeshappiest of places here, and an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the alternative country demanded (especially as he would probably be having shipped off to take whatever job she was offered via some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the Labour Exchangefather being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, seeing as she’d already rejected success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the maximum party to ease some of two offers under the 1950s Direction of Labour. And soheat, she became a journalistbut in this sultry island country, or journalist it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of sorts anyway.the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906852170</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Jackson1035025299|title=A Little Piece of England: A tale of self-sufficiency|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Here at Bookbag we're great fans of John Jackson. We loved his [[Tales for Great Grandchildren by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini|Tales for Great Grandchildren]] ''and'' [[Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini|Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology]] so it was something of a treat Went to meet the author on his own groundLondon, so to speak. Originally published as ''A Bucket of Nuts and a Herring Net: The Birth of a Spare-Time Farm'' this is actually Jackson's first book and thirty-five years later we're delighted that it's been republished in hardback complete with Took the original black-and-white illustrations by Val Biro.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909661031</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=My Life In AgonyDog|author=Irma KurtzNina Stibbe
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|summary=I used Nina Stibbe is returning to love the problem pages of magazines as London for a teenagersabbatical after being away for twenty years. My friends and I would pour over the letters which invariable ended with some form of the question She's been at Victoria'Am I normal?'' and mock the invariable Agony Aunt answer of ''Of course you’re normal's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all that conducive to writing, hooting instead as there''No, you’re, really, REALLY not!'' That response perhaps illustrates why none s always something smallholding happening - as you might expect. The other side of us decided to follow that as the decision was sealed when a career plan, but Irma Kurtz did, and as agony aunt for Cosmopolitan for more than 40 years it’s safe to say she has been room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) at a fair bit more sympathetic than we ever werevery reasonable rent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883113</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Never Mind the Bullocks: One girl's 10,000 km adventure around India in the worlds cheapest carChristopher Fowler|authortitle=Vanessa AbleWord Monkey|rating=45
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|summary=With a cute little map It's the first of India on August in the front cover and cartoon cars puttering over middle of a cool wet summer in East Anglia. I decided not to swim at the pagepool in favour of going to my beach hut. The weather closed in, rain arrived, and I thought I’d chosen an entertaining yet mind-broadening traveloguedecided not to do that either. Well When I was wrong. Now I’ve read it throughfinished reading this book, I don’t even see realised it on the same shelf as was because (a Lonely Planet) I wanted to finish reading this book and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shack. But that’s possibly this book’s novelty No spoiler alerts, the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 'was' – and great strengthhis first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. The travelogue shelf There is fair groaning under weighty tomes something very strange about being made to laugh by Europeans digging into Indian life a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dying, and culture. So let me unpack the delights of this particular book for youknow he actually is at that point, but don’t be misled: you aren’t going to pick up many recommendations for your own odyssey from this round-India skedaddlebecause he does. He did.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1857886127</amazonuk>0857529625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Here and Now: LettersKit De Waal|authortitle=J M Coetzee Without Warning and Paul AusterOnly Sometimes|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Reading letters by writers affords a particular pleasure. As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad/ They give us access may not mean to the functioning , but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of a writer’s mind when it’s somewhere between work parenthood and restthe bonds that bind family. Sometimes they reveal secrets, offer startling revelations about their writers and insights about This book is a memoir focussing on the times they lived author’s formative years as a teenager living ina lower class area of Birmingham. Her father is from St. ''Here Kitts in the Caribbean and Nowher 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,'' an exchange of letters between J M Coetzee her class and Paul Auster between 2008 her gender. Her parents loom large and 2011are written with care, love, describes itself as ‘an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friendsand the kind of anger only a child can express to their parents.’|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099584220</amazonuk>1472284852
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=How to Disappear Completely: on modern anorexia1638485216|authortitle=Kelsey Osgood|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=To the awkward 14 year-old KelseyBlack, White, a happy family and a comfortable suburban life are dull and numbing. Gray All Over: A self-professed bookworm and fan of the literary greats, she craves meaning and purpose Black Man's Odyssey in an utterly normal teenage existence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715647539</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Sorcerers Life and Orange PeelLaw Enforcement|author=Ian MathieFrederick Reynolds
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|summary=I can’t understand why Ian Mathie isn’t a more celebrated writer and commentator on African cultural affairs. I’ve never yet heard him on radio''Corruption is not department, re-telling episodes from his memorable lifegender or race specific. Our loss. Africa is moving forward, but to understand the Africa of today we need to pay attention It has everything to its recent past as well as its early colonial history. Ian’s unassuming witness of African tribes as they slowly emerged into the world of the 1970’s is unparalleled for its authenticity and depth of experiencedo with character. This recent memoir is his best constructed yet; a seriously informative tale for anyone who wants to know about the real Africa beneath the surface of today’s mobile phones and pre-loved designer jeansPeriod.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906852278</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Glitter Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Glue Agnes Bromme (Translator)|authortitle=Kelly CorriganI May Be Wrong
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|genre=Autobiography|summary=When Kelly leaves the USA for a life-changing trip around Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it doesn't really matter how the rest of the world, her goal is not responds to end up working as a nanny in suburban Sydneyyour book. And her goal is definitely not to turn into her mother I know, having read the book in the processquestion, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. She doesn’t realise He knows (and at core so do I) that it at matters very much how the rest of the timeworld responds to this book, but because it tells the truth as this memoir showsit is, there are worse things that could happenin the early 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444725149</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=gareth_steel|title=The Wolf of Wall StreetNever Work With Animals|author=Jordan BelfortGareth Steel|rating=2.54|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=As if we didnI don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have enough excuses to appreciate the proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals''Masters of is definitely not the Universecompanion volume you' of the financial sectorve been looking for. After As a TV show the tax dodgingauthor would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the bonus scamming, price fixing book is not suitable for younger readers and the valiant attempt to bring down the entire world economy comes Jordan Belfort aka the Wolf of Wall Street- after reading - I agree with him. To be fair He says that he's written it to Belfortinform and provoke thought, he plied his trade long before the most recent financial meltdownparticularly amongst aspiring vets. StillIt deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, he's managed to piggy back the latest crash via a although there are occasions when you would be best selling book which has been re-released to coincide with a film adaptation starring Leonardo Dicapriochoosing between reading and eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778129</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Play It Again: An Amateur Against The ImpossibleDave Letterfly Knoderer|authortitle=Alan RusbridgerSpeedy: Hurled Through Havoc|rating=4.5
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|summary=I’ve maintained for a long time that I’ll read anything, if it’s well-enough written. So it was with this fascinating memoir, even though it’s a year in How to summarise the life of an amateur pianist, and I don’t play the piano – or indeed Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a note review of music. his memoir? Do you know, I couldn’t even have placed the name Alan Rusbridger in his professional role before really don't think I read the book. A quick browse through the first couple of pages on Amazon revealed that the author could indeed tell a clear story: it is his stock-in-trade as Editor of the Guardian. And the book duly held me through a messy, interrupted week of bedtime readingcan.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554747</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
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|title=We Need to Talk About Money
|author=Otegha Uwagba
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|genre=Politics and Society
|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|isbn=0571365884|title=Love, NinaMy Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Nina StibbeGeorgia Pritchett
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|summary=When I began reading this book I wasn't entirely sure that I liked itGeorgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a child. I didn't quite know how to take She would worry about whether the Nina from monsters under the title. She's a twenty year old Nanny, employed by bed were comfortable: it was the editor sort of the London Review of Books life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and living near Regent's Park in North Londonfar between. The book contains her letters On a visit to her sister, Victoria living at home in Leicestershirea therapist, and tell of the events and happenings in her life as a Nanny and thenan adult, going on, in when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her life as a student at Thames Polytechnic. Initially it felt like she was name dropping - Alan Bennett lives over the road and drops in for dinner most days; the father of Will and Sam, the two boys suggested that she is nannying, is Stephen Frears; should write it down the road lives Claire Tomalin and her partner Michael Frayn...and yet, given chance, you begin to see that she isn't awed by the notoriety 'My Mess is a Bit of these people (indeed, she tells her sister that Alan Bennett was a Life: Adventures in Coronation Street!) and actually they are just Anxiety'' is the neighbours and result - or so it is less important that Alan Bennett (AB as he's referred we are given to in the book) comes around for dinner every night since he isn't there for fame value but rather for his own unique place in this rather crazy family life memoir!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670922765</amazonuk>believe.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in TimeDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|authortitle=Penelope LivelyA Tattoo on my Brain
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|summary=Now aged 80, Penelope Lively, the Booker Prize-winning author of twenty works of fiction including Alzheimer''Moon Tiger'' (1987) s is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and ''How It All Began'' (2011), is increasingly conscious sense of death approachingself. It may be true thatI have been directly affected by this cruel disease, as concluded in [[Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes]], 'we cannot truly savour life without have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a regular awareness of extinctionstatue over time affected the elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs', but this memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is less a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''memento moriA Tattoo on my Brain'' than an agreeably scattered tour through Lively's life and times.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241146380</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=Tony Benn0008333173|title=The Last DiariesHungry: A Blaze Memoir of Autumn SunshineWanting More|author=Grace Dent|rating=45
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|summary=Throughout my life I've found that whilst I might not m always agree with Tony Benn's politics, whatever he had to say would give me food for thought - and frequently changed the way that I viewed a situation. He's a wonderful mixture of supreme intelligence and humanity which relieved when Grace Dent is so rarely found - particularly in modern-day politics and it was with some misgivings that I opened this volume of his diaries, given that the slipcover speaks one of the judges on ''compensations and challenges of old ageMasterchef'' and . You know that you''the disadvantages of growing older, the loneliness of widowhood, the upheaval of moving re going to get an honest opinion from the family home someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of sixty years and the problems time. You also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all that good food in front of failing healthher.'' I've always been relieved that Benn has never often wondered about the woman behind the media image and ''quiteHungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'' achieved the status of national treasure, but surely he couldn't be is a stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in decline?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091943876</amazonuk>equal measures.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Jin-Nom Lee and Howard Webster1504321383|title=Canton Elegy: A Father's Letter of SacrificeSingle, Again, and Again, Survival and LoveAgain|author=Louisa Pateman
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|summary=Stephen Jin-Nom Lee, known in his childhood as Ah Nom, was born early in the twentieth century in the village of Dai Waan in rural China''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. His father died when he was young and he lived with his grandmother, mother and You are not complete until you find a man'Little Uncle', who . This was what Louisa Pateman was only a matter of months older than Ah Nombrought up to believe. TheyIt wasn'd become friends t unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to 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 rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they grew older, but when his Grandfather returned can live happily ever after a long absence in America there as a distinct rivalry between the two. Then Grandfather revealed his reason for returning home - he intended Few girls are lucky enough to take be brought up ''without'' the boys to America to be educatedexpectation that they will marry and have children. It was a wonderful opportunity belief and Ah Nom left the village and his mother not knowing when he it would be many years before Louisa would see either againconclude that ''a belief is a choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780285736</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=My LifeSakinu Ahronglong|authortitle=David JasonHunter School
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|summary=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 North London in February 1940 during the early years of the Second World Warsense that Ahronglong made it all up, David John White once had a brief career or whether it is as an electrician. Fortunately for the world of entertainment and the publicblurb goes on to say ''recollections, he soon forsook the world of fuses folklore and wires for that of autobiographical stories''. It feels like the stage and small screenlatter. When It feels like the stories he joined Equitytells about his experiences as a child, they already had a David White on their recordsas an adolescent, as an adult are real and after true. But memory is a little quick thinking on the phonefickle thing, he became David Jasonand 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. More people should.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780891407</amazonuk>1999791282
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1544641923|title=A Piece of Danish HappinessAmbassadors Do It After Dinner|author=Sharmi AlbrechtsenSandra Aragona
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|summary=Sharmi Albrechtsen was a true Hindu-American princessIt's tempting to think that the diplomatic life is privileged and luxurious. Obsessed with shoes and handbags and designer labels It might be privileged, she saw status and wealth as the only route but family connections tell me that it is far from luxurious. Now you're not going to happiness. But she wasnget many ambassadors telling you what it's really like (it's not ''diplomatic''t happy enoughto do so, no you know), but the diplomatic spouse, the accompanying baggage, well, that's an entirely different matter how much designer gear she owned. And She (and it wasnstill usually is a 't until 1997, when she married her second husband, ') can tell us exactly what goes on.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241446732|title=Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Dane, Family and relocated to Denmark, that she began to wonder if it was something lacking a Planet in herselfCrisis|author=Malena Ernman, rather than her possessionsGreta Thunberg, that Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was at an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the root parenting of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her problemssister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with what was happening. In such circumstances, it's natural to seek a solution close to home, but eventually, it became clear to the family that they were ''burned-out people on a burned-out planet''. If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00EAINZM8</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=191280493X|title=The True German: The Diary Coming of a World War II Military JudgeAge|author=Werner Otto Muller-Hill and Benjamin Carter HettDanny Ryan
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|genre=Autobiography
|summary=We've had diaries of teenagers, opium addicts, drug smugglers, 'He began writing novels and a lot more. Some poetry at the age of them have been optimistictwelve, happy things, and many not. Clearly World War II but it was not to take him a place further forty-eight years to realise that he wasn’t very good at either. Consistently unpublished for all that time, he remains a terribly cheerful outlook, whatever the diarist. However sometimes it was not the done thing to be pessimistic, for shining example when you were in the huge German military and were publicly denigrating the dreamt-of Nazi successhope over experience.. Such ''corrosion of morale'' would mean you being put in front of a three-man military tribunal, and most probably sentenced for such treacherous behaviour. The startling thing about this book, however, is that it contains much that would certainly have been deemed ''corrosion of morale'', yet it was written by one of the very military judges who served on those panels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137278544</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=190874572X|title=Lucky Me: My Life With - And Without - My Mom, Shirley MacLaineLetters from Tove|author=Sachi Parker with Frederick StroppelTove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=Born in Los AngelesBack at the beginning of the century, raised in Tokyo, and schooled across Europe, Sachi Parker had already lead an eventful life before she turned 18I went on holiday to Nepal. Add to the mix I met a secretive father with an explosive temper wonderful Finnish woman and we became sort-of-friends. I can't remember if it was on that holiday or a Hollywood icon for a mother and you have enough stories later one that Paula told me I really had to fill a bookread Tove Jansson. And I do know that it was four years later that I finally acquired an English translation of The Summer Book, and thatI eagerly awaited the ''Sort Of's exactly what she' translations of the rest of Jansson's donework and devoured them as soon as I could get my hands on them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1592407889</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1908745819|title=Monkeys in my Garden: Unbelievable but true stories of my life in MozambiqueSurfacing |author=Valerie PixleyKathleen Jamie|rating=3.5
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|summary=Valerie Pixley and her husband OSometimes 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 hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the author considering ''D live in Mozambiquean older, amidst its rapidly disappearing forestsless tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of where I am. Monkeys in Add to that my Garden tells love of the story natural world, of those aspects of what life is like in the Nhamacoa Forest poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and how they came substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to be thereme eventually. It opens with a terrifying scene: armed bandits in their bedroom in the middle of the night I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00DUF1LXM</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1906852472|title=The Boy on the Wooden BoxWild Child: Growing Up a Nomad|author=Leon LeysonIan Mathie
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|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary=This For Ian Mathie fans there is good and bad news. Ian has come up with the memoir of one missing link in his narrative, the story of a very unusual childhood (yes, the very years that made him the youngest people on Oskar Schindleramazing man he became). The bad – well it's famous list of Jews saved from hardly news two years later – is that the Nazis during World War IIbook is published posthumously. It opens between the warsAs always, it's beautifully written, with Leonmany exciting moments. What I most enjoyed was the feeling that many of the questions in Ian Mathie's family living later books are answered in the small Polish town of Narewka. There wasn't much money but everyone was happy'Wild Child'' with a satisfying clunk. LeonSeemingly all that's father moved to Krakow now left in the hopes of making a better life and when Leon and his siblings eventually join him, you can feel the wonder of a little boy new to the big citydrawer is unpublishable. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00CWEHR2G</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1999811402|title=Wicked GamesPainting Snails|author=Kelly LawrenceStephen John Hartley
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|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Sometimes you read It'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 that is supposed , but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be fiction, and immediately question whether something along the lines of 'try it isn’t a true story loosely fictionalised and with see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a few character names changedbusker, so the author doesn’t lose face if it’s not well receivedfinally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Wicked GamesCasualty'' is no such , but that isn't really what the book's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, because you’re told from which seems to be the outset that it’s a real passion of Hartley's life erotic memoir. And, while but it didn't actually fit into the author still has some discretion regarding how much or how little she shares, you genuinely come away feeling like you’ve just read entertainment genre either. Did we have a startlingly intimate description of a real person’s private lifecategory for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753541718</amazonuk>
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