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Advantages: It's all true
Disadvantages: Might damage your opinions of the royals

This book could be called many things. Traitorous. Scandalous. Sensationalistic. Ruinous. Unfair. After having read the book when it first came out, I would like to add another. Necessary. This is the undeniably true account of Diana's life up until 1992 when the book was published. History now tells us that the vast majority of information came from the Princess herself, and that express permission had been granted for her friends to also verify ...
...it's all true regardless of the lack of quoted sources. Her life is laid out from her birth into an aristocratic family with a priveleged background; through her early years as a child damaged by her parent's divorce; on to her teens that sees her working as a char woman to pay her own way; the shy and vulnerable young woman who marries a prince; a physically and emotionally wrecked mother-to-be; a stoic actress in her later years, and because she ... Read review

Advantages: a true story of incredible braveness
Disadvantages: a very sad but inspiring story

Dont tell mummy is a story of a little girl who on becoming the age of six years suffers years of abuse from her father, it is a sad story of how it affected her life, this poor child had to learn to deal with her abuse alone as her mother was no help... This book deals with her relationship with her dad who was the abuser and her mother who was aware of the abuse between her husband and daughter. Her mother stands by him even after he is sentenced ...
...sad story that will make you cry, very angry and feel helpless hearing such terrible things happening to such an innocent child. it is a story of sadness and heart break. I could not put it down, I just had to read it cover to cover, Toni Maguire is a very exceptional woman . It was almost like she was telling me her story in person, so well written... ... Read review

Advantages: original, well-written
Disadvantages: Subject matter may not have a wide appeal, bit disjointed in parts

Julie Myerson is a novelist living in Clapham, South London. Whilst researching for one of her books set in Victorian London she came across the home, she and her partner and three children were living in, listed on a census and started on a remarkable labour of love researching its history. As I enjoy researching my family history I thought this sounded a very interesting read. The book is basically a biography of her home. She starts in the logical ...
...tracks down their adult children and asks them for their memories regarding their former home, and invites them for a visit. Obviously as time goes by it becomes harder and harder to track down past residents or their descendants and Myerson and her long suffering partner, Jonathan, send out lots of speculative letters to people and Julie spends many hours in various public records offices. Whilst I knew this was about the people in the house, I ... Read review

Advantages: Enjoyable and can keep you occupied all day
Disadvantages: A few chapters are not acceptable for narrow minded people

I have totally edited this reveiw. It is my first reveiw and noticed i can make it alot better and thanks to everyones suggestions, i have decided to edit it completely. This book is about a boy who, at an early age, loses his mother. She was the first victim of the Yorkshire Ripper. He and his sisters go and live at an orphanage until their father turn up and they go and live with him. In time, the boy grows up and has many experiances in life. ...
...can't talk about his mothers death as his father banished anyone ever talking about it. He's still trying to come to terms with his mothers death and has no one to talk to. However, he still manages to move on and this proves to others that life does go on. This book is avaliable at all good book shops. I got mine from WHSmith and is £6.99 ... Read review

Advantages: Great story, chapters on each writer and show, very well researched
Disadvantages: None.

...their generation - Eric Sykes, Spike Milligan, Galton and Simpson, Johnny Speight and several more - teamed up to form a unique co-operative called Associated London Scripts. In the years that followed, such shows as The Goons, Sykes, Hancock's Half-Hour, Steptoe and Son, The Frankie Howerd Show, Beyond Our Ken, Till Death Us Do Part, Comedy Playhouse, Round The Horne and many, many others came out of this small set of offices. Terry Nation devised ...
...made a country laugh. In Spike & Co, Graham McCann (who has written several other superbly researched books on British comedy, including the classic biography of Morecambe & Wise and an equally invaluable celebration of Dad's Army) brings all the details and anecdotes together with great charm and skill, gives us a real insight into each writer and each show and notes the enduring influence of the styles, formats and figures. He also includes a full ... Read review