Review, buy General: The Little Prisoner: How a Childhood Was Stolen and a Trust Betrayed, My Story, The Children of Belsen, A Champions Mind;Lessons from A Life in Tennis, Extra Virgin: Amongst the Olive Groves of Liguria, The Presence, Johnny Depp: The Biography, A Real Boy: How Autism Shattered Our Lives - and Made a Family from the Pieces, John Terry: Captain Marvel, the Biography, The "Killers": Destiny is Calling Me: Destiny Is Calling Me, The Smoking Diaries, The Real Deal: My Story from Brick Lane to "Dragons' Den", The Blair Years, Ugly, Force of Nature: Mind, Body, Soul (And, of Course, Surfing), The Nipper: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Little Boy and His Violent Childhood in Working-class Dundee, The Boys from Baghdad: From the Foreign Legion to the Killing Fields of Iraq, Manchester United - Man and Babe, The Books of Albion: The Collected Writings of Peter Doherty, The Grass Arena: An Autobiography (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Review Harper Element / The Little Prisoner: How a Childhood Was Stolen and a Trust Betrayed

The Little Prisoner: How a Childhood Was Stolen and a Trust Betrayed (Harper Element)

Authors

Jane Elliott
Andrew Crofts

Publication date: 2005-09-05
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Review Taylor Trade Publishing / My Story

My Story (Taylor Trade Publishing)

Authors

Marilyn Monroe

Edition: Ill
Publication date: 2006-10-28
Dewey code: 791.4028092
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Price: £10.05

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Review Politico's Publishing Ltd / The Children of Belsen

The Children of Belsen (Politico's Publishing Ltd)

Authors

Hetty Verolme

Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-01-15
RRP: ~~£7.99~~
Price: £3.33

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Review Potter Style / A Champions Mind;Lessons from A Life in Tennis

A Champions Mind;Lessons from A Life in Tennis (Potter Style)

Authors

Sampras Pete

Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-06-03
Dewey code: 796.342092
RRP: ~~£12.99~~
Price: £34.91

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Review Penguin / Extra Virgin: Amongst the Olive Groves of Liguria

Extra Virgin: Amongst the Olive Groves of Liguria (Penguin)

Authors

Annie Hawes

Publication date: 2001-04-26
Dewey code: 910
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Price: £2.64

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There is a natural inclination among lovers of the travel journal genre to compare Annie Hawes's Extra Virgin to the idyllic and idiosyncratic tales by Frances Mayes or Peter Mayle. Don't. Her saga has the well-built flow of fiction and self-effacing honesty of a journal. Annie and her sister, Sarah, were in their early 20s when they left London for a 10-week job, pruning roses in the mountainous town of Diano San Pietro in Liguria, Italy. While Sarah is the sensible shadow in the book, it is Annie who falls in love withthe place and then the people and coming up on 20 years lives there still. Youthful mistakes are rectified by a village mystified at the Hawes sisters: mystified that they would want to live in such conditions, that they know so little about olives, wine, food and life and that they are not-horrors-married. Time and time again she is confronted with the reality that is the life of a peasant farmer and in retelling the episodes of her own ignorance, she gives heartfelt flesh and bones to the characters. Still, Hawes deftly drizzles an observer's scepticism about her adventure. "We gloat about the house, the food, the view, everything, whilst pondering the strange fact that if we saw a representation of this sunset on a postcard we wouldn't buy it. We would think it was tasteless. [+]

" That she centred the story on the early, impressionable days and the gradual intimacy that developed, gives the book an energy that makes it stand apart. Although the final pages jump haphazardly into the present, Hawes's perspective is instructional about the economic and social changes that in 15 years moved the village from the 19th to the 21st century. Like any story with the ring of truth, Extra Virgin is very much a tale that will age well. -Kathleen Buckley.

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