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[[Category:New Reviews|Autobiography]]__NOTOC__{{newreview|title=Glitter and Glue|author=Kelly Corrigan|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=When Kelly leaves the USA for a life-changing trip around the world, her goal is not to end up working as a nanny in suburban Sydney. And her goal is definitely not to turn into her mother in the process. She doesn’t realise it at the time, but as this memoir shows, there are worse things that could happen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444725149</amazonuk>}}

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|title=The Wolf of Wall Street

|summary=I first encountered Anna Quindlen when I read [[Life with Beau: A Tale of a Dog and His Family by Anna Quindlen|Life with Beau: A Tale of a Dog and His Family]]. I'm a sucker for non-fiction books about dogs but what struck me was that the book could have been trite. Instead it was elegant, witty and with a real eye for detail and social nuance. It was genuinely about life ''with'' Beau and what the family learned from him rather than - as so many such books are - what the family had done for the dog. The book struck a particular chord with me as our older dog was, we knew, on borrowed time (although her innate stubbornness kept her going for another two years) and Quindlen helped me to think about what Rosie had given us.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955903X</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Mac Carty~~

~~|title=The Vagaries Of Swing (Footprints on the Margate Sands of Time)~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=Autobiography~~

|summary=Mac Carty tells us that the catalyst for 'The Vagaries of Swing' was the BBC television series 'True Love' which portrayed a series of romantic encounters all set by the sea in his home town of Margate. But Carty has taken the original idea - about relationships between people - and run with it, extending ''love'' into ''passion'', say for cricket, or (at the other end of the scale) as a human encounter which ends in violence. Whilst the television series might have been the catalyst for the book there was another and probably more compelling reason. When his friend Mike died he realised that he had no one with whom to share his fund of stories about growing up in Margate, all of which had been revisited on a regular basis and usually over a pint. I've just read the result.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1291336761</amazonuk>~~

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