Biography Books > G Biography Books > 5 GBP to 9 GBP

Advantages: Gripping, informative
Disadvantages: May be found quite hard going

Carla Van Raay's autobiography "Gods Callgirl" details the life of a naive, immature girl, then woman who is devoted to God but goes from obedient convent girl to sexual prostitute over the course of her life, but remains as naive as ever. This life story is divided into three parts and develops the tale of this Dutch girl's life over the course of the book. Part one examines the life of a child abused by her father, yet finding she felt abandoned ...
...God from a very young age. As a school girl she idolising the convent and her sole ambition in life is to serve God as a nun in one of Australia's many convents. As an early teenager feeling unloved at home by her family yet supporting her mother in everyday chores and childcare of her brothers and sister she found herself believing she was a product of the devil. A problem no confession could speak of, and no action could heal. Part two follows ... Read review

Advantages: Touching, honest account from incredible people
Disadvantages: None

...actually find my thoughts on Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S Thompson a valuable insight into the man behind not only a number of critically acclaimed literary successes, but also the man behind the conception of the new style, new era, new view that was Gonzo. What makes Wenner and Seymour suitable biographers for Hunter ******************************************************************* ******* Jann Wenner, is arguably the best placed person to ...
...the founder and Editor in Chief of Rolling Stone Magazine since 1967, owner of Men's Journal and US Weekly, and reknowned interviewer of any number of iconic figures, from musical legends like Bob Dylan, John Lennon and the Rolling Stones to political leaders John Kerry, Al Gore and Bill Clinton, there is no questioning his credentials. However, what matters most is that for more than 30 years, he and Hunter shared a unique partnership which began ... Read review

Advantages: Captivating
Disadvantages: None

What I found captivating about the book was the entrapment of a particular experience of childhood in words which though simple deliver to the adult reader an understanding of the complexity a child is faced with as consciousness and understanding grow and develop. In our times there is little time for childhood. It's baby minders and after school clubs and knackered stressed out parents. Or it's dad in the jail or on the dole , and knife crime and ...
...mother, was there to pick up the slack, to be around, to keep the home fires burning, to give some constancy to the family unit. Food in Mr Boyle's household certainly wasn't fancy, but it was wholesome and it was there, every day , at 'dinner time'. When you read this book, you will look into a world of family life which has virtually disappeared, and we are much the poorer for it. We live in a new kind of poverty which is far more destructive. ... 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