Books Recommended by the kitchen garden
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Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations. John Diamond’s reflections via his newspaper column as he is treated for cancer.
An Angel at My Table New Zealand author, Janet Frame’s autobiography is a grim and poignant portrayal of post-war New Zealand by a talented woman trapped by her shyness. In the Blood by Andrew Motion’s memoir of growing up in post-war England. Alan Bennett’s memoir of growing up in Leeds, A Life Like Other People’s The Year of Living Biblically from AJ Jacobs. |
Even though it’s a game about which I know very little, two contrasting tennis memoirs I enjoyed are Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi and The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese.
Spilling the Beans is Clarissa Dickson-Wright’s memoir of an alcoholic rise to fame. Nigel Slater’s memoir of growing up in the Midlands, Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger. Experience a women’s prison vicariously in Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison. |
Stephen Fry’s first memoir Moab is My Washpot Even after The Fry Chronicles, there will still be another. Christopher Hitchens’ memoir Hitch 22: A Memoir requires me to have a dictionary on hand and uses no prepositions to end sentences. Sir David Attenborough’s memoir Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster is easier going, despite it’s length. Rags to riches for Michael Caine in The Elephant to Hollywood. |
