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|title=Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to her Son John Julius Norwich 1939-1952
|author=Diana Cooper
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Though she is perhaps little remembered these days except as the mother of writer and historian John Julius Norwich, Lady Diana Cooper was one of the towering figures in society life between the wars and for much of the period before her death in 1986.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009957859X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Pamela O'Cuneen
|summary=As if we didn't have enough excuses to appreciate the 'Masters of the Universe' of the financial sector. After the tax dodging, the bonus scamming, price fixing and the valiant attempt to bring down the entire world economy comes Jordan Belfort aka the Wolf of Wall Street. To be fair to Belfort, he plied his trade long before the most recent financial meltdown. Still, he's managed to piggy back the latest crash via a best selling book which has been re-released to coincide with a film adaptation starring Leonardo Dicaprio.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778129</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Play It Again: An Amateur Against The Impossible
|author=Alan Rusbridger
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|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 the life of an amateur pianist, and I don’t play the piano – or indeed a note of music. I couldn’t even have placed the name Alan Rusbridger in his professional role before 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 reading.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554747</amazonuk>
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