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James Frey brings us into his world again with his autobiographical sequel My Friend Leonard. After the very compelling A Million Little Pieces the author might have had a challenging time living up to his own self-created standard.

As outlined in my previous review, A Million Little Pieces divulges all of his fears, strengths and weaknesses in a

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“Mad, bad and dangerous to know” was Lady Caroline Lamb’s verdict on Lord Byron in the early nineteenth century. The same description could be applied to the beautiful Caroline Blackwood (1931-1996), a member of the celebrated (and perhaps cursed) Guinness family who, as part of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, was brought up in County

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From Oxford to the toughest US maximum security penitentiary of Terre Haute, Indiana, Howard Marks has got an amazing story to tell. Mr Nice is an autobiography of Wales’ most notorious drug smuggler. Written with laugh out loud humour and passages that will grip you and coerce you into rereading time and time again, this is one very well written

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She sings, she dances, she pouts, she poses, and now she pens original fiction. Is anything beyond the reach of pop sensation Britney Spears? Co-written with her mother, Lynn, ‘A Mother’s Gift’ is recommended for ages 9 and up; it’s a sugar-sweet rags-to-riches tale of a girl from small town Mississippi whom everyone knows

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A Million Little Pieces is set in the roller coaster timeframe of James Frey’s torturous ride through rehabilitation. While struggling to find a new life, Frey shares his past life of debauchery and addiction with astonishing honesty and clarity, giving the usual self-pity a gracious miss.

Frey started drinking regularly at the early age of

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