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Becoming Unbecoming, by English author Una, depicts the effects of misogyny and sexism on twelve-year old Una growing up in northern England in 1977 while the Yorkshire Ripper is on the loose, creating a panic among townspeople. Honor Girl is a graphic memoir written and illustrated by Maggie Thrash. It is the story of Thrash's first crush at ...
Philip Aegidius Walshe (actually Montgomery Carmichael), The Life of John William Walshe, F.S.A., London, Burns & Oates, (1901); New York, E. P. Dutton (1902). This book was presented as a son’s story of his father’s life in Italy as “a profound mystic and student of everything relating to St. Francis of Assisi,” but the son, the father and the memoir were all invented by Montgomery ...
Plot summary [ edit ] Set in 1993 London, About a Boy features two main protagonists: Will Freeman, a 36-year-old bachelor, and Marcus Brewer, a 12-year-old incongruous schoolboy described as "introverted" by his suicidal mother, Fiona, despite his tendencies to bond and interact with people.
The Years Flew Past: 40 Years at the Leading Edge of Aviation: 2001 Robert K. Morgan: The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot: 2001 Peter Masefield: Flight Path: The Autobiography of Sir Peter Masefield: 2002 Donald L. Mallick: Smell of Kerosene: A Test Pilot's Odyssey: 2003 Bernard F. Fisher
Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984) is an autobiography written by British writer Roald Dahl. [1] This book describes his life from early childhood until leaving school, focusing on living conditions in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, the public school system at the time, and how his childhood experiences led him to writing children's books as a career.
Moab Is My Washpot (published 1997) is Stephen Fry's autobiography, covering the first 20 years of his life. In the book, Fry is candid about his past indiscretions, including stealing, cheating, and lying. The book covers some of the same ground as Fry's first novel, The Liar, published in 1991. In that work, public schoolboy Adrian Healey ...
Normal People was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. [10] It was voted the 2018 Waterstones Book of the Year [11] and won Best Novel at the 2018 Costa Book Awards. [12] In 2019, the novel was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. [13] The same year, it ranked 25th on The Guardian ' s list of "The 100 Best Books of the 21st ...
Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Autobiography; Winner of the Audie Award for Autobiography/Memoir; Apple's Best Memoir of the Year; Audible's Best Memoir of the Year; Hudson Group Best Book of the Year; President Barack Obama's pick for summer reading and his Favorite Books of the Year list [29] Bill Gates's Holiday Reading list [30] [31]