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  • 4 stars,  non-fiction,  running

    Review: ‘Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives’ by Anna Kessel

    Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Sport’s for everyone . . . isn’t it? Society has led us to believe that women and sport don’t mix. But why? What happens to the young girls who dare to climb trees and…

    April 15, 2018
  • 4 stars,  graphic novel,  non-fiction

    Review: ‘Sally Heathcote: Suffragette’ by Mary M. Talbot

    Sally Heathcote: Suffragette is a gripping inside story of the campaign for votes for women. A tale of loyalty, love and courage, set against a vividly realised backdrop of Edwardian Britain, it follows the fortunes of a maid-of-all-work swept up…

    January 9, 2018
  • 5 stars,  non-fiction

    Review: ‘Into the Wild’ by Jon Krakauer

    Rating: 5 out of 5 stars In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in…

    November 1, 2015
  • Food,  graphic novel,  non-fiction

    Review: ‘Relish: My Life in the Kitchen’ by Lucy Knisley

    Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her…

    April 28, 2015
  • 5 stars,  non-fiction,  running

    Review: ‘Running Like a Girl’ by Alexandra Heminsley

    Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Alexandra had high hopes: the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Defeated by gyms and bored of yoga, she decided to run.    Her first attempt…

    June 25, 2014
  • 4 stars,  autobiography,  non-fiction

    Review: ‘How To Be A Woman’ by Caitlin Moran

    Rating: 4 out of 5 stars   Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven’t been burned as witches since 1727, life isn’t exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and…

    August 10, 2013
  • 4.5 stars,  non-fiction

    Review: ‘HHhH’ by Laurent Binet

    Rating:  4.5 out of 5 stars Everyone has heard of Reinhard Heydrich, “the Butcher of Prague.” And most have heard stories of his spectacular assassination at the hands of two Czechoslovakian partisans. But who exactly were the forgotten heroes who…

    July 20, 2013
  • French,  non-fiction

    Non-fiction Review: “Faux Amis” by Ellie Malet Spradbery

    This is a first for Lit Addicted Brit: a review of a non-fiction. The main reason for this is that I don’t tend to read a great deal of non-fiction. I’ll read newspapers and law journals but, aside from that,…

    November 4, 2010

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