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One evening late in his life, veteran sportswriter Mike Sullivan was asked by his son what he remembered best from his three decades in the press box. The answer came as a surprise – ‘I was at Secretariat’s Derby, in ’73. That was – just beauty, you know?’ John Jeremiah Sullivan didn’t know, but he spent two years finding out, journeying from prehistoric caves to the Kentucky Derby. The result is ‘Blood Horses,’ a wise, humorous memoir exploring the relationship between man and horse and the relationship between a sportswriter’s son and his late father.
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What British parent hasn’t noticed, on visiting France, how well-behaved French children are compared to our own? Pamela Druckerman, who lives in Paris with three young children, has had years of observing her French friends and neighbours, and with wit and style, is ideally placed to teach us the basics of French parenting.
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As editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger’s life is dictated by the demands of the 24-hour news cycle. It is not the kind of job that leaves one time for hobbies. But in the summer of 2010, he was able to make his annual escape to ‘piano camp’. Here, he set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, Chopin’s Ballade No.1.
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The highs and lows of being a vet in the Yorkshire Dales are perfectly captured in James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small which contains If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet.
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Following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia, the author brings the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes and cynical betrayals of that chaotic episode: the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona, and more.
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Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, this book documents his ‘first contact with poverty’: sleeping in bug-infested hostels, working as a dishwasher in Paris, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps.
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At once intimate, heartbreaking and laugh-out loud funny, this is a son’s poignant tribute to his complicated mother and a brilliant evocation of mid-century America.
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In this entertaining and engaging memoir, former ambassador Sherard Cowper-Coles lifts the lid on embassy life throughout the world.
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In ‘Winter Journal’, Auster presents the abandonment of his family by his father from his mother’s point of view: her struggle as a single mother, love found again late in life, her troubled later years and her death: and the subsequent anxiety attacks Auster suffered in the face of her death.
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From one of our most powerful writers, a classic work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter.
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Siri Hustvedt’s novels are known for being as thought-provoking as they are emotionally involving. In these essays, Hustvedt shows what lies behind her fiction – an abiding curiosity about who we are and how we got that way, which has led her into the realms of psychology and neuroscience, as well as philosophy, art and literature.
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Mingling fact and fiction, science and personal record, history and anecdote, Levi uses his training as an industrial chemist and the terrible years he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz to illuminate the human condition in a unique autobiography.
