Mike Robbins's Blog - Posts Tagged "autobiography"

In 1943 Ève Curie's Journey Among Warriors nearly won a Pulitzer. It is one of the best pieces of reportage to come out of the Second World War, and includes vivid descriptions of the Russian Front, the Burma retreat, the fighting in the Western Desert, and wartime China. She met Nehru, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, Chou En-Lai, Wavell, Auchinleck and countless others. But the book has vanished; forgotten, and never reprinted. Why? The astonishing journey of Ève Curie - concert pianist, journalist, humanitarian and diplomat.

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Rumer Godden was one of the most successful writers of her lifetime. Several of her novels, including Black Narcissus and The River, became successful films. But some of her best work is not fiction at all. Her memoirs of India are drenched with light and colour; and now they have been reissued by an enterprising Indian publisher, Speaking Tiger.

An appreciation of some really beautiful writing:
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Lifting the lid on life in jail: Two remarkable books by Amanda Brown and Karen Gedney