Biography Books > E Biography Books > 5 GBP to 9 GBP

Advantages: Great foreword, lots of things about every song, nice cover, interesting
Disadvantages: Couldn't find any

This is a biography about Eminem. This book is definitely a must have for all Eminem fans and even non-eminem fans. The book includes lyrics from all of his songs and it shows about a paragraph to a page about every single page. It is interesting reading about why he wrote the song, what it was about, who it was about, when he wrote,where he wrote it and the media attention it got. At the beggining their is a very interesting foreward by Eminem saying ...
...life; for example what the media are saying about him isn't true. That he isn't homophobic and many more things like that he mentions in the forward. This book is truly AMAZING ... Read review

Advantages: Wonderful read, inspiring, helpful, down to earth
Disadvantages: Upsetting

I read Elaine Lordan's autobiography Whatever It Takes after finishing Patsy Palmer's, so I couldn't help but compare them. Two actresses, both formerly in EastEnders, both Londoners - in fact, both coming from Anna Scher's theatre school. Yet, while I found Patsy's book to be a typical cash in, with a strong dollop of drug addiction boredom thrown in, Elaine's was completely different. Even if you are not the slightest bit interested in autobiographies, ...
...why in this review. Whatever It Takes is quite different to other autobiographies in general. You get some idea of this by looking at the cover. Elaine looks normal in the photos, not all dolled up to the nines with an inch of slap on, just a normal woman wearing jeans. Under the book's title, it says 'A Story of Family Survival' and this is very true. While many in this genre are simply love-ins between the reader and the subject, Whatever It Takes ... Read review

Advantages: insightful, good background reading for understanding Boland's poetry
Disadvantages: quite repetitive

Published in 1995, five years after the initial release of ‘Outside History’ – Eavan Boland’s first collection of new poems since ‘The Journey’ – ‘Object Lessons’ is a fascinating and often highly thought-provoking exploration of the role of the female poet in Irish society. In this prose narrative, which incidentally reads more like verse than anything else, Boland dissects what it meant to be ...
...centuries and what the implications are in modern day terms. She then analyses the life of the woman in the same terms and searches for an area of overlapping, a place for her to belong as both a woman and a poet, but sadly all she finds is an empty space. ‘Object Lessons’ consists of two parts, split symbolically to represent Boland’s own divided self; the first part aptly labelled ‘Objects’ and the second, unsurprisingly, ... 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