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Can you please recommend an interesting biography?

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WetAugust · 10/05/2014 00:07

Preferably an autobiography.

I've recently read Andre Agassi -Open, Joanna Lumley's, Rupert Everett's, Duncan Bannantyne's and Alan Sugar's (which is the best and most candid I have ever read).

Am very open minded, so could be anybody's.

Thank you

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WetAugust · 10/05/2014 00:31

How about Dawn French, Katie Price, the Liverpool chap who likes dogs and has a c4 late afternoon show and us a friend of Cilla - can't remember his name. Hate the obese that dwell on their miserable childhoods.
Have read Angela's Ashes so us the other Frank McCourt book very different?

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WetAugust · 10/05/2014 00:26

Thank you for the recommendations. Us bio fans obviously stay up late!

I watched a Horizon programme many years ago about her and the research. If I remember correctly they couldn't cells that would divide in vitro until her sample was obtained and the scientists wasted many years of research as samples derived from her cells contaminated most if the worldwide research samples.

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nettie · 10/05/2014 00:25

Rob Lowe's is very good (first one, think he now has a new one out) and also John Taylors.

Agree on Frank Skinner and the Henrietta Lacks being good reads too. I couldn't get into the Julie Walters one.

AnneEyhtMeyer · 10/05/2014 00:24

Oh yes, Cybill Shepherd's was good - managed to get that for pennies on my Kindle ages ago.

Meglet · 10/05/2014 00:20

These are old(ish) now but a cracking read and very naughty - Cybil Shepherd (moonlighting, Bruce, Elvis!!). Marc Almond - very sweet but daft as a brush and decadent.

And for a much more intelligent read the Waris Dirie book, Desert Flower. She tells her childhood in Somalia, FGM and escape to the UK.

GoingToBedfordshire · 10/05/2014 00:17

That does sound fascinating.

AnneEyhtMeyer · 10/05/2014 00:15

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a biography with a difference.

GoingToBedfordshire · 10/05/2014 00:15

Frank McCourt's Tis is wonderful as well.

GoingToBedfordshire · 10/05/2014 00:12

Ooh, love biographies.

Frank Skinner, Lee Evans, Tina Fey, Julie Walters have all written great ones imo. Have also just finished a memoir written by a journalist, Damian Barr which was great called Maggie and Me.