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Showing posts with label Biography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biography. Show all posts
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Book Review : The Moon's a Balloon by David Niven - The Joy of a Born Storyteller.

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  I first read actor David Niven ’s memoir, The Moon’s a Balloon , published in 1971, back in the mid-1970s. It was the first “adult” book t...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Son of My Father - A Story in Twenty Chapter Headings

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The memories of a sixties’ child. Everyone has a story to tell. Here’s mine in twenty chapter headings. Chapter One — Just a Small Funeral. ...
Monday, October 16, 2023

Charity shop book haul...another five for a pound haul.

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Last Friday, I got another five for a pound haul of books from the charity shop that keeps on giving. Let's see what I got this time. Al...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

The Writer's Life: Why Are Biographies So Popular? Are They?

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I came across an article in The Guardian online that posed the question, “why are biographies so popular?”  I could ask, are they?     I ...
Friday, May 12, 2023

Son of My Father - A Further Extract: The Bully and My Aston Martin

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From Son of My Father. When a friend turns out to not be a friend at all. I had a friend at school by the name of Colin. Although we were th...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

The Writer's Life: Spared - A Royal Life Story v A Real Life Story

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2023 has started with a bang in the world of books.  Spare is a memoir written by the British Royal who chose to step back from his role, P...