Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-03-07
Dewey code: 305.896073092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.76
Review Manchild in the Promised Land / Touchstone:
Publication date: 2001-07-17
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £8.50
Price: £8.44
Review Raids and Rallies / Anvil Books (Childrens Press):
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-02-03
Dewey code: 364.1523092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.57
Review Dangerous Love: A Gripping Memoir of Romance and Murder / Ebury Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-11-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £12.95
Price: £10.62
Review Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism / Jessica Kingsley Publishers:
Publication date: 2006-09
RRP: £10.99
Price: £12.95
Review Big Fellow, Long Fellow / Gill & Macmillan Ltd:
Edition: US e.
Publication date: 2004-03-15
Dewey code: 972.9123063092
Price: £10.99
Review Waiting for Snow in Havana / Simon & Schuster:Carlos Eire's memoir of his childhood in Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy explodes off the page with the smells, sights, and sounds of the tropics. But the most interesting aspect of his story is the story of the Revolution from a boy too young to know exactly what's happening. Just nine-years-old when Castro and his fellow revolutionaries overthrew Batista, Eire watched as relatives were arrested, property confiscated, and rights lost. Naturally, it was a confusing time for the boy, as his whole world was turned upside-down by factors both visible, such as militiamen, and invisible. "I woke up to the fact that something had gone awfully wrong with the world that day," writes Eire. "We stood there for a while, all of us, asking questions, complaining. it was the sheer shock of encountering a stupid rule that kept us there, loitering under the marquee. " The rule? The movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was suddenly off-limits to minors. [+]There is no love lost between the author-today a history and religious studies professor at Yale-and the man he calls a "ruthless dictator masquerading as a humanitarian. " Waiting for Snow in Havana is a cry from the heart of a boy torn from family, country, and way of life. Eire was 11 at the time he was shipped off to the US to live with strangers, and the fire still burns in him at the injustice of it. This fury propels his memoir, which is by turns cloying, sentimental, repetitious, and meandering. (Eire can, and does, go on for paragraphs about the shape of clouds. Federico Lorca he is not. ) But readers looking for insight into one of the century's most "successful" revolutions will come away from Waiting for Snow with a fresh perspective on a crucial period of Cuban, and world, history. -Shawn Conner, Amazon. ca.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-07-27
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.94
Review No News at Throat Lake / Penguin Books Ltd:Guardian journalist and ex-Lloyd Cole and the Commotions bassist Lawrence Donegan always had a hankering to live in Ireland. "It was a back-to-my-roots thing. London was filthy, crowded, expensive. Above all, it was inhospitable. I had lived in the same ground-floor flat for eight years and I still had yet to pass a civil word with anyone in the street. " In No News at Throat Lake he says goodbye to all that and exchanges flat, job and girlfriend for a shack in Creeslough, County Donegal. It's no Year in Provence. The shack is rat-infested, the promised job on a farm proves non-existent and there's scant social-life. But Donegan perseveres (partly because he's too ashamed to tell his girlfriend he couldn't hack it) so finds a job on the Tirconail Tribune and mates on the local Gaelic football team. The newspaper, run by a man named John Mcteer ("In another life John McTeer had been Gore Vidal with stronger opinions, Henry Ford with ambition"), revitalises Donegan's enthusiasm for news reporting, as he investigates local life. [+]He goes on a pilgrimage to the shrine at Knock, researches the life of Doris Duke's Creeslough-born butler and, surprisingly, interviews Meryl Streep in this funny and poignant tale of life in rural Ireland. -Tamsin Todd.
Publication date: 2007-04-04
Dewey code: 305.4880596068092
RRP: £23.95
Price: £7.54
Review When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race / Miramax Books:
Publication date: 2001-11-01
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £12.99
Price: £11.69
Review Behind Enemy Lines: An Australian SAS Soldier in Vietnam / Allen & Unwin:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-02-12
Dewey code: 808.06692
RRP: £13.38
Price: £8.12
Review Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir / Free Press:
Edition: St Martin's Griffin Ed
Publication date: 1999-12-01
Dewey code: 941.0810922
Price: £12.99
Review Victoria's Daughters / Saint Martin's Press Inc.:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-06-21
Dewey code: 364.1532092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.26
Review I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility / Simon & Schuster:I Am the Central Park Jogger tells the real-life story of a young woman who was brutally assaulted and raped while jogging in New York's Central Park in April of 1989,. The attack captured headlines around the world as the anonymous "Central Park Jogger" fought to recover from massive injuries that left her near death. Fourteen years later, in this first-person account, Trisha Meifi breaks her silence to discuss the incident in her own words and reveal who she was before the attack and who she has become as a result of it. Meifi tells the story of a competitive and driven young executive at a finance firm whose life was destroyed, and how she ultimately rebuilt it. Passages in which Meifi is reunited years later with the doctors and nurses who saved her life are especially compelling, as are her accounts of testifying in court and her first run after the incident. While her candour is remarkable and certainly moving, it's worth noting what this book does not include. Meifi can provide no detail of the actual attacks (she has no memory of them), she has little to say about the racial controversy her case ignited and she only briefly mentions the fact that, during the writing of this book, the convictions of her attackers were vacated after another man confessed to the crime. But these are not necessarily omissions; they are simply not central to Trisha Meifi's highly readable story of tragedy and, ultimately, triumph. I Am the Central Park Jogger is not just a book for New Yorkers curious to finally hear from "The Jogger"; it's an inspirational tale of overcoming enormous obstacles and getting back on the road again. -John Moe, Amazon. [+]com.
Publication date: 1997-04-29
Dewey code: 823.912
Price: £6.99
Review James Joyce's Dublin Houses and Nora Barnacle's Galway / Merlin Publishing:
Edition: Lrg
Publication date: 2008-04-29
Dewey code: 328.730973
RRP: £13.89
Price: £8.49
Review Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper)) / Random House Large Print Publishing:
Publication date: 2007-09-10
Dewey code: 796.332092
RRP: £13.97
Price: £2.51
Review Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond / Simon Spotlight Entertainment:
Publication date: 1998-07-01
Dewey code: 914.1158
RRP: £6.99
Price: £17.95
Review Small Steps with Heavy Hooves: A Mother's Walk Back to Health in the Highlands / Summersdale Publishers:
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 1998-12-31
Dewey code: 320.54092
Price: £4.99
Review The Autobiography of Malcolm X / Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group:
Creator: Wynton Marsalis
Publication date: 1999-04-30
Dewey code: 786.9164092
RRP: £18.95
Price: £5.25
Review Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story - The Life and Times of a Rock'n'Roll Hero / Smithsonian Books,US:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2005-11-30
Dewey code: 306.8743092
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.81
Review Confessions of a Naughty Mommy: How I Found My Lost Libido / Seal Press (CA):
Publication date: 2006-02-20
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.23
Review A Love Affair With Cancer / AuthorHouse:
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Manchild in the Promised Land, Raids and Rallies, Dangerous Love: A Gripping Memoir of Romance and Murder, Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism, Big Fellow, Long Fellow, Waiting for Snow in Havana, No News at Throat Lake, When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race, Behind Enemy Lines: An Australian SAS Soldier in Vietnam, Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir, Victoria's Daughters, I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility, James Joyce's Dublin Houses and Nora Barnacle's Galway, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper)), Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond, Small Steps with Heavy Hooves: A Mother's Walk Back to Health in the Highlands, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story - The Life and Times of a Rock'n'Roll Hero, Confessions of a Naughty Mommy: How I Found My Lost Libido, A Love Affair With Cancer |
