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MEMOIRS AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

The EnCompass database includes loads of autobioraphies, memoirs, self-reflections and true life stories. But can you match the titles with the authors? 

 

 Question 1.
Which award-winning journalist's autobiography was entitled The Kindness of Strangers?

John Simpson

George Alagiah

Jeremy Paxman

Kate Adie

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 Question 2.
When biographer Michael Holroyd turned his attention onto his own family and hs own life, what was the resulting book called?

Basil Street Blues

Bold Street Blues

High Street Blues

Hill Street Blues

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 Question 3.
Which British politician's memoirs, originally recorded onto tape, were subtitled My Life in the Bear Pit?

John Major

David Blunkett

Margaret Thatcher

Tony Benn

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 Question 4.
When Hanif Kureishi discovers an abandoned manuscript of his father's, his understanding of the family history is transformed. What's the title of the resulting book about his father's failure as a writer and the beginnings of Kureishi's own successful career? 

My Nose to the Grindstone

My Hand on his Shoulder

My Ear at His Heart

His Mouth at My Ear

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 Question 5.
Who wrote the memoir Bad Blood, attempting to make sense of her childhood in rural Shropshire in the 1940s and 1950s?

Andrea Ashworth

Lorna Sage

Justine Picardie

Alexandra Fuller

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 Question 6.
What's the title of Children's Laureate Michael Rosen's book, in which he uses prose poems to tell the story of his life?

Carrying the Elephant

Fighting the Tiger

Chasing the Cheetah

Riding the Giraffe

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 Question 7.
Which well-loved British cook describes his personal culinary odyssey in the book Toast, capturing in the process 30 years of British cooking and the recipes that we've grown up with since the days when a grilled grapefruit was the last word in dinner party chic?

Marco Pierre White

Gordon Ramsay

Nigel Slater

Rick Stein

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 Question 8.
What's the unassuming title of the autobiograpy of Christopher Logue, poet and literary maverick, who counted Ken Russell, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe among his friends?

Prince Charming

Captain Sensible

King of the Castle

Queen of Sheba

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 Question 9.
Which Nobel laureate's memoir is called Flaws in the Glass, moving from his childhood in Sydney, through English public school, service in the North African campaign of World War II, and permanent return to Australia?

Peter Carey

Patrick White

Tim Winton

Doris Lessing

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 Question 10.
When Richard E. Grant decided to document his first foray behind the movie camera, what did he call the resulting memoir?

The Far Diaries

The La-La Diaries

The Wah-Wah Diaries

The Ooh La La Diaries

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