Advantages: Very readable and interesting Disadvantages: Perhaps an interest in politics would help
Isn't Blackpool loathsome?" writes Alan Clark in his diary entry for the 1973 Tory conference. "On the Promenade - vulgar, common primitives drifting about in groups or standing, loitering, prominently." And if you think he was a bit harsh on the general ...
Advantages: Witty, well written, Candid, good account of a turbulent time Disadvantages: Not to every ones tastes
Alan Clark Diaries “Into Politics” are his own hand written diaries, transferred into print. They are his thoughts on the major events of the times. Alan Clark was a conservative MP, most of the time on the backbenches, throughout the Thatch ...
Advantages: well written, seriously informative, darkly comic, engaging Disadvantages: slightly sad to contemplate mistakes
Disappointingly often, I find that I disagree completely with the exultant praises strewn liberally across the covers of books. ‘Superb!’ and ‘Amazing!’ often turns out to mean dull and ponderous, especially where non-fiction is concerned. Surprisingly, t ...
Advantages: An auto-biography of a 'real' person Disadvantages: Quite dark.
Over the years I have read many autobiographies written by Chinese women about their lives prior to, during and since communism and the Cultural Revolution. For the most part they have been interesting, moving and informative with the odd exception. Hav ...
Advantages: Gritty emotional read Disadvantages: Nothing that springs to mind
I wanted a book of substance, a book that could maybe give me a different look onto people’s lives and what makes us who we are. I pondered through the shelves at my local library, feeling slightly irate at pompous attempts by "celebrities" wanting us to ...
