Autobiography

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By Lucy Grealy

Considered one of football’s actual cult heroes, Mike Summerbee, certainly one of Manchester City’s attacking trinity — with Colin Bell and Francis Lee — encouraged the membership to 4 trophies in 3 seasons from 1968 to 1970. it is a nice story from football’s golden age.

By J. J. Lee

FINALIST - Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction (2012)
FINALIST - Governor General's Literary Award - Non-Fiction (2012)
FINALIST - BC booklet Prize's Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (2012)
 
A son’s determination to change his father’s final surviving go well with for himself is the launching element for this robust ebook – half own memoir, half social historical past of the man’s go well with – approximately fathers and sons, love and forgiveness, and studying what it skill to be a man.
 
For years, journalist and novice tailor JJ Lee attempted to disregard the go well with putting behind his closet. It was once his father’s swimsuit. but if JJ makes a decision to make the swimsuit his personal, little does he comprehend he's approximately to embark on a trip to appreciate his personal earlier.
 
As JJ cuts into the jacket, he starts off to piece jointly the tale of his courting together with his father, a charismatic yet stricken Montreal restauranteur whose demons introduced tumult upon his kin. JJ additionally recounts his personal ups and downs through the yr he spent as an apprentice at Modernize Tailors – the final of the good Chinatown suitmakers in Vancouver – the place, lower than the tutelage of his octogenarian grasp tailor, he learns useful classes approximately existence. Woven all through JJ’s story are tales of the suit’s personal evolution, illuminating how this humble garment has, for hundreds of years, been the wonderful battleground for the conflict among generations.
 
Written with nice wit, bracing honesty, and narrative verve, and that includes line drawings all through by means of the writer, The degree of a guy is an unforgettable tale of affection, forgiveness, and gaining knowledge of what it ability to be your individual man.

By Peter Reich

By Oriana Small

By Aatish Taseer

"Indispensable examining for a person who desires a much broader realizing of the Islamic international, of its heritage and its politics." ―Financial Times

Aatish Taseer's fractured upbringing left him with many questions about his personal id. Raised through his Sikh mom in Delhi, his father, a Pakistani Muslim, remained determine. Stranger to heritage is the tale of the adventure he made to attempt to appreciate what it potential to be Muslim within the twenty-firstcentury. ranging from Istanbul, Islam's as soon as maximum urban, he travels to Mecca, its so much holy, after which domestic via Iran and Pakistan. finishing in Lahore, at his estranged father's domestic, at the evening Benazir Bhutto was once killed, it's also the tale of Taseer's divided relations over the last fifty years. fresh occasions have further a coda to Stranger to History, as his father used to be murdered through a political murderer. a brand new advent via the writer displays on how this occasion alterations the impression of the booklet, and why its message is extra proper than ever.

By Pete Townshend

From the voice of a generation:

...smashed his first guitar onstage, in 1964, through accident.
...heard the voice of God on a vibrating mattress in rural Illinois.
...invented the Marshall stack, suggestions, and the concept that album.
...stole his windmill guitar-playing from Keith Richards.
...detached from his physique in an aircraft, on LSD, and approximately died.
...has a few explaining to do.
...is the main literary and literate musician of the final fifty years.
...planned to put in writing his memoir while he used to be 21.
...published this ebook at 67.

One of rock music's so much clever and literary performers, Pete Townshend—guitarist, songwriter, editor—tells his closest-held tales in regards to the origins of the preeminent twentieth-century band The Who, his personal occupation as an artist and performer, and his stressed existence out and in of the general public eye during this candid autobiography, Who I Am.

With eloquence, fierce intelligence, and brutal honesty, Pete Townshend has written a deeply own ebook that still stands as a first-rate resource for renowned music's maximum epoch. Readers should be faced by means of a guy laying naked who he's, an artist who has requested for almost sixty years: who're you?

By Jimmy Case

Jimmy Case is healthier remembered for a amazing FA Cup ultimate aim and a deserved acceptance as one in every of football's actual tough males. yet that does scant justice to a profession that lined greater than seven hundred appearances for 7 league golf equipment and didn't finish till he retired, via harm, on the age of 41.Raised on Merseyside, Jimmy begun at his cherished Liverpool, turning into a key participant within the all-conquering crew of the overdue Nineteen Seventies along stars like Kevin Keegan, John Toshack, Ray Clemence, Phil Thompson, Kenny Dalglish and his nice associates, Tommy Smith and Ray Kennedy. At Anfield, the place he used to be signed by means of invoice Shankly and guided via Bob Paisley, Jimmy gained a boxful of medals: 4 league titles, 3 eu cups plus a bunch of alternative household honours which inform the reality approximately Jimmy Case - that he had even more than a tricky take on and a ferocious shot. As Jimmy himself says, you couldn't get in that Liverpool workforce should you couldn't play.His ambition used to be to play his complete profession at Liverpool yet destiny despatched him on a special course: to Brighton, the place he virtually gained the FA Cup; to Southampton, the place he performed greater than two hundred video games; to Bournemouth; Halifax; Wrexham; and a unmarried time out for Darlington. alongside the best way he got here up opposed to gamers like Andy grey, Graeme Souness, David Speedie, Graeme Sharp and Norman Whiteside, frequently with painful results.Packed with incident and anecdotes, often humorous - yet sometimes unhappy - this can be the tale of Jimmy Case, a real soccer legend.

By Ann Wilson

The tale of center is a narrative of middle and soul and rock ’n’ roll. given that discovering their love of tune and acting as young ones in Seattle, Washington, Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson, were a part of the yank rock tune panorama. From 70s classics like “Magic guy” and “Barracuda” to chart- topping 80s ballads like “Alone,” and the entire means as much as 2012, after they will free up their most recent studio album, enthusiast, center has been exciting their enthusiasts and generating hit after hit. In Kicking and Dreaming, the Wilsons recount their tale as sisters who've a shared over 3 a long time at the degree, as songwriters, as musicians, and because the leaders of 1 of our such a lot cherished rock bands. An intimate, sincere, and a uniquely woman tackle the rock and roll existence, readers of bestselling song memoirs like Life through Keith Richards and Steven Tyler’s Does the Noise in My Head trouble You? will love this essential track tale eventually instructed from a feminine perspective.