Biography Books > S Biography Books > 10 GBP to 14 GBP

Advantages: Simple, beautiful, moving
Disadvantages: None ~ so long as you're not looking for action-adventure

...and back again. Sky Burial is a translation from the original Chinese version and we’re told it is slightly different. Xinran “worked closely with her translators and editor to make sure all elements of the book were accessible to non-Chinese readers”. I wonder what the differences are, and whether they matter. I also wonder, as always when reading translations, whether the style reflects the original. I hope so…because it works so well. The simplicity ...
...telling of it. There is no complicated imagery, no “graphic detail” and yet it is graphic in a literal sense. You can feel the very bleakness of the land, and the contrasting warmth of its people, smell the animals and taste the sweet butter tea, purely through them becoming familiar. Kejun’s story, which we discover at the end, has the nobility required to turn Wen’s journey from folly into a real quest and the discovery of the truth justifies ... Read review

Advantages: Tragic yet inspirational story of survival
Disadvantages: none

...own unique upbringing, a first stolen life. At the age of 4, her presence was requested at court to be a companion to the Princess Lalla Mina, and so she was taken from her parents to be raised at the Palace. Certainly, to most of us, the concept of growing up in a harem in a royal palace sounds highly exotic and mysterious, but Malika reveals a life of isolation and loneliness from being separated from her beloved mother. She was considered to be ...
...abuse. Her first stolen life is given back to her when she finally leaves the palace, and for a portion of the book, her joy and sense of freedom (and rebellion) is palpable. She wants to be an actress, she lives in Paris, sneaks out at night; in short, she has a relatively normal teenage life. What makes these portions of the book so much more poignant is the way these memories come back to her while she languishes in jail, and how they become absorbed ... Read review

Advantages: ryertyer
Disadvantages: tyertyertyert

rtyertyerye ryertyertyCharlie sasda sadfasfd fds fdsfdas fdas df fsdfds dsf dsf fds dsa fas f gf h hgf yg rt yer ty tr ert yert yert yfg sd fas fa sad asd fasd fsd fger tr ty5 6y h fg s e tw 5g sdf. ge se5 ts ehg gh fd 6 yer g fg d rg r5y ht fdgh fd y6 yre h s w 5 w5 64564564 dsg sdhg sg sdg sdf gdt y 5y sdg sd t e rtr yty uty ue re y t yre tyerty ery yt rt y ty ery ty ry yt tr yer tyr ty yt ert yer ty erty re tyer. fdgsdg dfg sgf sdf gsdf dsf g ... Read review

Advantages: Great inspirational reading
Disadvantages: Bit long winded when she laks about other race competitors

Black White and Gold is the biography written by 2 times Olympic champion, Dame Kelly Holmes. She starts the book in March of 2005 as she is sitting in a limousine driving towards the gate of Buckingham Palace. She is off to receive her Damehood and she says how surreal it felt and how she had to pinch herself to make sure it was really happening. She tells how she joked with the other people who were also their receiving their Damehood and Knights', ...
...to have the Queen place the sword on each of her shoulders, she tells them all she is going to kneel down anyway! As we all know she did not and she received her dame hood in the correct way! We are then taken back to her early years and she tells how when her parents found out she was pregnant and had split up from her boyfriend they did not want her to have the baby but she went ahead and when Kelly was born her mother was given the choice of ... Read review

Advantages: Funny, interesting and gossipy
Disadvantages: slightly boring in places

After watching multiple episodes of Britain's got talent, and quite enjoying the remarks made by Piers Morgan I decided to pick up one of his books. My brother had a copy 'Don't you know who I am?' so this was the obvious choice. The book consists of a number of diary entries around the time after his Mirror newspaper sacking, and evolves around his search for a new job, celebrity status and also I had no real idea of who Piers Morgan was except ...
...owing to a sacking. In this book Piers lifts the lid on his meeting with numerous celebrities ranging from top bench cabinet ministers to the likes of Gordon Ramsay and Sharon Osborne, all of which are thoroughly eventful. My favourite has to be his meeting with Sharon where he waits for her PR to go to the loo before asking her opinion of certain celebrities knowing that she would be more likely to slag them off without the PR present. Piers manages ... Read review