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[[Category:New Reviews|Autobiography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove --> ==Autobiography== <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Powell0241636604|title=Below StairsThe Trading Game: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen MaidA Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Below Stairs'' was first published If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in 1968your mind, and ityou's no exaggeration re unlikely to claim Margaret Powell as think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the trailblazer for pin-stripe suit and his background is the memoir genre. This book encouraged hundreds of autobiographies of common lifeEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and spawned a whole generation of tv programmesinjustice. In its vernacular and popularist way, it There was probably as influential as Mayhew's 'London Labour and no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London Poor'School of Economics. Before her, Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only famous envy. He also realised that most rich people wrote their stories, and that without too much regard for realityexpect poor people to be stupid. Unless they were literary writers It was his ability at what was, achievements were downplayed and emotions hidden awayessentially, in the stilted style of the British stiff upper lipa card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Not so Margaret Powell Eventually, who became a publishing sensation when she blasted through with this turned into permanent employment as a robust Voice rather than a polished narrative, in the first-ever tale of an ordinary servant writing about everyday life below stairstrader. Imagine being talent-spotted from an evening class and invited to write your memoir: those were the days! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330535382</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria Coren1529395224|title=For Richer, For PoorerLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: Confessions The Secret Life of a PlayerVet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Some things are in the bloodSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. For Victoria Coren it His father was cards. As a child she GP and brother Giles were taught Rowlands didn't want to play Blackjack by their grandfather. He called it Pontoon but follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the most valuable lesson was strain that grandfather being on-call put on his father's life. When he was ''always'' seventeen he took the dealer and ''always'' the winner. Giles played Poker but wasn't really opportunity of doing work experience with a gambler. Victoria family friend who was one of life's risk-takers a vet and she leant to was convinced this was the more adventurous side of her father's familyjob for him. She Before long, he was unhappy at school, preferring the company of her brotherLiverpool University. It hadn's straightt -talking friends to the bitchy allas with so many students -girl atmosphere at schoolbeen his dream since he was a child. In the intervening twenty years sheIf anything, he's won d wanted to be a million dollars, but for her it's never been about the moneyprofessional footballer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847672930</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy ChuaEdel Rodriguez|title=Battle Hymn of the Tiger MotherWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyGraphic Novels|summary=Amy Chua We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has firm beliefs about parenting. She brought up her two daughtershappened, Sophia and LuluCastro, using first thought of as a strict set saviour of rules – including no sleepoversthe country, no playdateshas proven himself a Communist, no school playsand not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, no choice those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of extra curricular activityplaces here, no grades less than an Auncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and no the father being less than the number 1 student in any 'academic' subject. Then there's the piano watched and watched, and violin practice… On hearing she called herdaughter Sophia 'garbage'not liked for his successful photography business, an acquaintance of hers burst into tearssuccess being frowned upon. The thought of praising one mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the girls for getting a Bheat, as many American parents dobut in this sultry island country, would no doubt have a similar affect on Chua. Mother – or monster?it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408812673</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eva Petulengro1035025299|title=The Girl in Went to London, Took the Painted Caravan: Memories of a Romany ChildhoodDog|author=Nina Stibbe
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|summary=Eva Petulengro was born in Nina Stibbe is returning to London for a painted caravan in 1939. Her Romany family had travelled in Norfolk and Lincolnshire sabbatical after being away for generationstwenty years. She has had a very successful career 's been at Victoria's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all that conducive to writing, as there's always something smallholding happening - as a clairvoyant, writer of horoscope columns and publisher of magazines, and her daughter is also a well known media astrologeryou might expect. The Girl in other side of the Painted Caravan is decision was sealed when a memoir room became available (courtesy of her childhood and youth, up until her marriage in her 20s and the beginning of her careerDeborah Moggach) at a very reasonable rent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330519999</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harry Leslie SmithChristopher Fowler|title=1923: A MemoirWord Monkey|rating=45
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|summary=Harry Leslie Smith was born It's the first of August in the middle of a cool wet summer in 1923East Anglia. If you're wondering about I decided not to swim at the title – that's the explanation – and although it's when Harry began his life it's not where his story beganpool in favour of going to my beach hut. He takes us back some years before to his father's family with its roots The weather closed in mining , rain arrived, and a sideline in running a pub which was I decided not to make them comfortable if not wealthydo that either. Harry's father When I finished reading this book, I realised it was middle-aged when he got involved with Lillian, because (a teenage girl) I wanted to finish reading this book and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shack. Unsurprisingly his family were not impressed or welcoming when No spoiler alerts, the pair married because a child dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 'was on the way' – and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. Albert Smith expected There is something very strange about being made to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he would inherit the pub when his father diedis dying, but it passed to his uncle and so began a life of disappointment for Albert and Lillianyou know he actually is at that point, because he does. He did.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1450254136</amazonuk>0857529625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keith RichardsKit De Waal|title=LifeWithout Warning and Only Sometimes|rating=4.5|genre=EntertainmentAutobiography|summary=Nearly forty years agoAs Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad/ They may not mean to, Keith Richards was considered but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and the next most likely rock'n'roll star to succumb to drugsbonds that bind family. The man has defied all This book is a memoir focussing on the odds author’s formative years as a teenager living in a lower class area of Birmingham. Her father is from St. Kitts in staying alive, the Caribbean and continuing to do what he has been doing her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for almost half becoming pregnant by and marrying a centuryblack man. In This intersectionality plays a large role in the processautobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her race, he has earned the sometimes grudgingher class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with care, love, sometimes unqualified respect of those who would once never given him and the time kind of dayanger only a child can express to their parents.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297854399</amazonuk>1472284852
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Shilling1638485216|title=The Stranger in the MirrorBlack, White, and Gray All Over: A Memoir of Middle AgeBlack Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds
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|summary=Middle-aged women disappear. They are ''Corruption is not see on televisiondepartment, their lives do not appear in newspapers, the legions of novels that are written each year rarely feature themgender or race specific. At least, that is what the author Jane Shilling believes as she wakes up aged 47 It has everything to find the narrative of her contemporaries and their lives which she has been reading about and living in parallel with since leaving university has vanished. She looks in the mirror and sees a face she does not recognise. Even do with a punishing regime of early bed, no alcohol and litres of water, it refuses to regain its youthful bloomcharacter. So she decides to take a magnifying glass to this particular moment in time, this journey between youth and old agePeriod.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701181001</amazonuk>}}''One more body just wouldn't matter''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BurnsideBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=Waking Up In ToytownI May Be Wrong
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|genre=Autobiography|summary=After years When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it doesn't really matter how the rest of alcoholism and borderline insanity, John Burnside decides the world responds to become normalyour book. This involves moving to Surrey I know, working having read the book in an office question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows (and settling into a numbing daily routine he hopes will prevent him drifting back towards bad habits. These memoirs chronicle at core so do I) that it matters very much how the failure rest of his bid for normality and subsequent disillusionment with the project. It's a solipsistic account but world responds to this book, because it tells the writing truth as it is powerful and it draws you , inthe early 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099507838</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rhoda Janzengareth_steel|title=Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Coming HomeNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Even although the obliging blurb on the back cover tells the reader a little about being Mennonite, I couldndon't resist looking often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it up in seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the dictionarycompanion volume you've been looking for. I was intrigued to start reading. And emblazoned across As a TV show the front cover is author would argue that ''All Creatures'No 1 In The US'lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Great praise indeed, Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I thoughtagree with him. But how would He says that he's written it go down across the pond? Time to find out .inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets.It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085789031X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony JudtDave Letterfly Knoderer|title=The Memory ChaletSpeedy: Hurled Through Havoc|rating=54
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|summary=In 2008 the historian Tony Judt was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative disorder that eventually results in complete paralysis for the sufferer. Unable How to jot down ideas as they came to him, Judt had to rely on his memory to hold them until he had summarise the chance to dictate his words to somebody else. His memory, which was already good, became exceptional. The progress life of the disorder left Judt unable to move, but no mental deterioration or lack of sensation occurred, which he describes as Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a mixed blessing. He had pithy sentence to endure whole nights lying in the same position, unable to roll over or even to scratch an itch, kick off a prisoner in review of his own body. To preserve his sanity during these tortuous nights he focussed on events from his own past, linking then with other events and ideas it had never occurred to him were connected. It was during these reveries that the essays in The Memory Chalet were not only conceivedmemoir? Do you know, but also developed in their entiretyI really don't think I can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434020966</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008350388
|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|authorisbn=Gok Wan0571365884|title=Through Thick and ThinMy Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett
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|summary=Famous for his sensitivity and understanding with women, encouraging them and enabling them to accept themselves, and their bodiesGeorgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as they are, Gok Wan's autobiography sadly tells a very different story with regards child. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the sort of life where if she had nothing to his own body acceptanceworry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far between. Having gained weight throughout his childhood, getting up On a visit to twenty one stone as a teenagertherapist, he loathed his body and ended up starving himselfas an adult, becoming anorexic in a desperate effort when she was completely unable to be thin speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down and, therefore, successful. Perhaps this ''My Mess is where his empathy comes from? That when he stands a woman in front Bit of a wall of mirrors Life: Adventures in her underwear, he actually truly understands what it Anxiety'' is the result - or so we are given to loathe your own bodybelieve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091938392</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen WynnDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=Two Sons in a War Zone: Afghanistan: The True Story of a Father's ConflictA Tattoo on my Brain
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|summary=ItAlzheimer's almost is a nightly occurrence – disease that news item which contains the words '… has been killed in Afghanistan' slowly wears away your identity and we think sense of a young life, or young lives cut tragically shortself. They're fresh-faced young men or women at what should I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the beginning of their adult life elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and now they are no moreyour dignity. You feel for them and their families, but This is what about the families makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who have people they love out in Afghanistan, who live each day was diagnosed with the worry that the knock will be coming to their door? Stephen Wynn Alzheimers and has two sons who have done tours of duty documented his journey in Afghanistan and who are likely to do so again. 'Two Sons in a War Zone' is his story of how he copes with the unrelenting pressureA Tattoo on my Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905570244</amazonuk>1108838936
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529109116
|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey
|author=Hannah Jackson
|rating=4.5
|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=Don Mullan0008333173|title=The Boy Who Wanted to FlyHungry: A Memoir of Wanting More|author=Grace Dent|rating=3.5
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|summary=There I'm always relieved when Grace Dent is a Foreward by both Pele and Archbishop Desmond Tutuone of the judges on ''Masterchef''. Names You know that you're going to make get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of us sit up and noticethe time. The title is certainly quirky and Mullan is probably hoping that prospective readers will be saying to themselves, what's this You also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all about then. Good start, I thought. Then I realised that there's an awful lot good food in front of football in this bookher. Even although itI's a slim, sliver of a book, thereve often wondered about the woman behind the media image and 's no getting away from the subject matter. Football. I don't Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'do' football. So, I counted to ten, put on what I hoped was is a good reviewer's face stunning read which will make you laugh and started to read ..break your heart in equal measures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907756019</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1504321383
|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again
|author=Louisa Pateman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel JohnsonSakinu Ahronglong|title=A Diary of The Lady: My First Year as EditorHunter School|rating=34.5
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|summary=Along with most The flyleaf to this little collection tells us that it is a work of my contemporaries fiction. That's possibly misleading. I've never read 'The Lady' except once when looking for an au pair job am not sure whether it is "fiction" in my student days, and the sense thatAhronglong made it all up, or whether it turns out, is as the problemblurb goes on to say ''recollections, folklore and autobiographical stories''. Before Rachel Johnson was appointed in June 2009 It feels like the average age of latter. It feels like the readership was 75stories he tells about his experiences as a child, as an adolescent, the circulation was dropping as an adult are real and the magazine was haemorrhaging moneytrue. The Budworth family But memory is a fickle thing, proprietors of 'The Lady' since and maybe poetic licence has taken over here and there and maybe calling it was founded 125 years ago, chose son fiction means that its safer and heir Ben Budworth to turn the magazine's fortunes around before therefore more people will read it folded. He asked Rachel Johnson to be editorMore people should.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905490674</amazonuk>1999791282
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Brand1544641923|title=Can't Stand Up For Sitting DownAmbassadors Do It After Dinner|author=Sandra Aragona|rating=34
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|summary=I am a big fan of Jo Brand It's tempting to think that the diplomatic life is privileged and I love her inimitable droll style of comedyluxurious. I always enjoy her stand up performances as well as her appearances on my favourite panel programme QI It might be privileged, but family connections tell me that it is far from luxurious. As a consequence I was Now you're not going to get many ambassadors telling you what it's really interested like (it's not ''diplomatic'' to read her second autobiographical book – Cando so, you know), but the diplomatic spouse, the accompanying baggage, well, that't Stand Up for Sitting Downs an entirely different matter. As She (and it still usually is a 'she states at the beginning though, this ') can tell us exactly what goes on.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241446732|title=Our House is not really an autobiography but on Fire: Scenes of a collection of thoughts Family and experiences that have resulted due to her life as a stand up comedianPlanet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. The book covers Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the period from parenting of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her first professional gig up sister, 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 present dayfamily that they were ''burned-out people on a burned-out planet''. Her early life and career in psychiatric nursing are covered in her earlier book [[Look Back in Hunger by Jo Brand|Look Back in Hunger]] If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755355261</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellen MacArthur191280493X|title=Full CircleComing of Age|author=Danny Ryan
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|summary=It's some years since I read [[Taking on the World by Ellen MacArthur|Taking on the World]] and – against all expectations thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm not a sailor He began writing novels and don't have a great deal poetry at the age of interest in yacht racing – twelve, but what appealed it was to me immediately was the character of someone who was determined not take him a further forty-eight years to let ''anything'' stand in the way realise that he wasn’t very good at either. Consistently unpublished for all that time, he remains a shining example of her ambitionshope over experience.. My only disappointment came later as I felt that the book had been written too soon – I really wanted to know about '''that''' big race and what you do with the future when you've done everything. How lucky did I feel when ''Full Circle'' landed on my desk?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718148630</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Fitzjohn190874572X|title=Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Lions and for AfricaLetters from Tove|author=Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=Maybe Back at the beginning of the century, I went on holiday to Nepal. I met a wonderful Finnish woman and we became sort-of-friends. I can't remember if it's just my rock-chick nature but "Born Wild" feels was on that holiday or a little clunky as titles golater one that Paula told me I really had to read Tove Jansson. Surely I do know that it should have been "Born To Be Wild"? Perhaps was four years later that phrase has been copyrighted I finally acquired an English translation of The Summer Book, and wasnthat I eagerly awaited the ''Sort Of't available. Or maybe Fitzjohn was deliberately referencing Joy Adamson's book "Born Free" – since much translations of the early part rest of his own time in Africa was spent with her husband George. "Born To Be Wild" would have been more accurate Jansson's work and devoured them as soon as well. Many of the animals we meet weren't born wild at all – though a good few of I could get my hands on them got to live out the remainder of their days and die that way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918911</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith Summers1908745819|title=The Badness of King GeorgeSurfacing |author=Kathleen Jamie
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=People know how to get round me: they offer me Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book and then say , they tell you ''this one has your name on it'It's about a dog. 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' and t like Pavlovthe book. That's canine a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I say 'Oh, lovely'was told why. And so it was with The Badness blurb speaks of the author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of King Georgeherself. '' George is Older. Less tethered. That's not a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and bad description of where I have am. Add to quibble with that my love of the title – superb as it is – because George is natural world, of those aspects of the poetic and lyrical that are about style not badform, and substance most of all, about connection. If anything he's badly done by as Judith SummersOf course, plagued by empty nest syndrome when her son goes to university, decides to foster rescue dogsthis book had my name on it. Poor George has absolutely no idea what she's let him in It was written forme. It would have found its way to me eventually. And nor has JudithI am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141046473</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Lewis1906852472|title=The KidWild Child: A True StoryGrowing Up a Nomad|author=Ian Mathie|rating=45
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|summary=Kevin Lewis grew For Ian Mathie fans there is good and bad news. Ian has come up on a poverty-stricken London council estate with the missing link in his narrative, the sort story of home a very unusual childhood (yes, the very years that made him the neighbours complain aboutamazing man he became). His mother The bad – inadequate by any measure well it's hardly news two years later – hated him more than most of her six children and he was beaten and starved by both of his parentsis that the book is published posthumously. You might think that Social Services would have stepped in and removed himAs always, it's beautifully written, but any relief was to be short-livedwith many exciting moments. Eventually he What I most enjoyed was put into care but even then the support was inadequate and Kevin found himself caught up feeling that many of the questions in Ian Mathie's later books are answered in ''Wild Child'' with a criminal underworld where he was known simply as 'The Kidsatisfying clunk. Seemingly all that's now left in the drawer is unpublishable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014104859X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dai Henley1999811402|title=B PositivePainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Dai Henley counts himself lucky 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, but you're not going to have been born get advice on what to loving plant when and nurturing parentswhere for the best results. When they discovered that The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his blood group was B positive they gave him his motto in lifeA levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and coincidentally, the title of this bookis now an A&E consultant (part-time). As he explains, itI found out that there's not an awful lot more to what goes on in a celebrity autobiography (Major Trauma Centre than you might be selling yourself a little short there'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', Dai) and nor is it a misery memoirbut that isn't really what the book's about. ItThere's the story of a man who has made lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the most real passion of every opportunity heHartley's been given – and life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a few mistakes along category for 'doing the impossible the hard way – but he'? Yep - that's won through despite the difficulties and played a fair amount of sport tooone. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907499180</amazonuk>
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