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DEBORAH LEVY The Cost of Living. Reviewed by Anna Verney

DEBORAH LEVY The Cost of Living. Reviewed by Anna Verney

by NRB | 20 Jan 2023 | Flashback Friday, Non-fiction | 0 comments

In this month’s Flashback Friday, Anna Verney assesses Deborah Levy’s 2018 memoir The Cost of Living. As readers of South African-born British writer Deborah Levy’s literary fiction will know, it always has an unsettlingly allusive quality. While grounded...
BILLIE JEAN KING All In: An autobiography. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

BILLIE JEAN KING All In: An autobiography. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 18 Jan 2022 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Billie Jean King was a champion on and off the tennis court, working for inclusion and civil rights as she made tennis history. Whenever Muhammad Ali met up with tennis legend Billie Jean King, he liked to say, ‘Billie Jeeeean, you’re the Queen.’ And ‘the Queen’ she...
JOHN CANN with JIMMY THOMSON The Last Snake Man. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

JOHN CANN with JIMMY THOMSON The Last Snake Man. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

by NRB | 3 Sep 2019 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

A dangerous way to make a living: John Cann’s autobiography tells the story of his life as a professional snake handler. George Cann was a snakey – a snake handler – all his life. His son John grew up to be a snakey too. One...
MANAL AL-SHARIF Daring to Drive: The young Saudi woman who stood up to a kingdom of men. Reviewed by Kathy Gollan

MANAL AL-SHARIF Daring to Drive: The young Saudi woman who stood up to a kingdom of men. Reviewed by Kathy Gollan

by NRB | 23 Jan 2018 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

One of the pleasures of al-Sharif’s book is the insight it gives into how women negotiate their way through chinks in the wall of oppression. This enthralling autobiography begins, as many books do, with its most dramatic moment: ‘The secret police...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on as-told-to autobiographies Part 2

The Godfather: Peter Corris on as-told-to autobiographies Part 2

by NRB | 1 Apr 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

In April 1998 Captain Ken Blyth, a Scot and an experienced and respected merchant mariner, was in command of a tanker transporting thousands of tons of fuel through the South China Seas. The vessel, named the Petro Ranger, was boarded by pirates, diverted to a secure...
MORRISSEY Autobiography. Reviewed by Michael Jongen

MORRISSEY Autobiography. Reviewed by Michael Jongen

by NRB | 5 Jun 2014 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Morrissey presents his case with palpable bitterness in a book that offers validation in the end. Bitterness and revenge inform this eponymous autobiography, or at least large chunks of it. Morrissey disses his bandmates, his record label, the press and the judges of...
             

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