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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life.

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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

14:53, 01 Jun 2009

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama

5 out of 5 (0 agreements, disagreements)

This book is made all the more interesting by Barack Obama's subsequent rise to the white house, it was published originally a good few years ago now, and reading this book shows America could not have made more of a u-turn on its presidential choice from George W Bush. He writes extremely well and incredibly sensitively about his own life and family and the subject of race as life has presented ...

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Is Middle England about tradition and decency or closed minds and bigotry? Is it maypoles and evensong, or flooded market towns and binge drinkers in the park? Stands the church clock still at ten to three, and is there honey still for tea? And is Slough really as bad as Ricky Gervais and John Betjeman make out?

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Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England

18:01, 22 May 2009

Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England
Stuart Maconie

5 out of 5 (0 agreements, disagreements)

Stuart Maconie writes like he's talking to you over a vanilla latte in the cotwolds before a cheerful evening in the pub with fish and chips and a pint of gold old fashioned english ale. Whilst I learnt a great deal from reading this book that I never knew about England. I did feel it could have been shorter and focused on fewer places in a bit more depth. Despite it being a bit of a whistle stop ...

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Is Middle England about tradition and decency or closed minds and bigotry? Is it maypoles and evensong, or flooded market towns and binge drinkers in the park? Stands the church clock still at ten to three, and is there honey still for tea? And is Slough really as bad as Ricky Gervais and John Betjeman make out?

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Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England

18:01, 22 May 2009

Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England
Stuart Maconie

3 out of 5 (0 agreements, disagreements)

Stuart Maconie writes like he's talking to you over a vanilla latte in the cotwolds before a cheerful evening in the pub with fish and chips and a pint of gold old fashioned english ale. Whilst I learnt a great deal from reading this book that I never knew about England. I did feel it could have been shorter and focused on fewer places in a bit more depth. Despite it being a bit of a whistle stop ...

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Rebecca
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* One of the most famous novels of the 20th century * A dark tale of the feminine unconscious

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Rebecca

17:48, 22 May 2009

Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier

5 out of 5 (0 agreements, disagreements)

I loved this book. It is a hauntingly beautiful story that has stayed with me to this day. This is a book that should be on every "must read before you die list"

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