The Book of Life: a Compendium of the Best Autobiographical and Memoir Writing

From childhood through to adulthood ­– if not necessarily\nmaturity – The Book of Life offers the literary journal of a\nlifetime, in the company of the most fascinating and talented\nfigures in history.From Alan Bennett’s wartime childhood in\nYorkshire to Mahatma Gandhi’s experiment with cigarettes; Katherine\nHepburn on her first acting job aged 21 and Primo Levi on being\ncaptured by Fascist militia at the same age; Darwin on his lifelong\nlove – his work – and Nelson Mandela on his release from prison\naged 71 … life and living in all its manifold glories is\nrepresented.With insights that encompass generations and\ncontinents, this is a uniquely enjoyable immersion in some of the\nworld’s best, and most personal, writing.

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