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This is a unique collection of childhood memories from across the decades. The selection ranges from medieval times to the present day, and from famous figures to moving reminiscences from ordinary people with a powerful tale to tell. It covers earliest memories of infancy and growing up, the powerful influence of family ties, first friends and first love, schooldays and holidays, first steps into the adult world — everything about those early years which shape who we are and what we became. Editor: Gervase Phinn (former teacher and school inspector). Hardback. (160 pages)

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This is Roald Dahl’s story of the first twenty years of his life. Funny, sad, nostalgic, and with lots of bite. In this book you will meet Dahl being sadistically caned by the later Archbishop of Canterbury and warming the toilet seat at Repton in icy weather for one of the “boazers” All described, of course, in Roald Dahl’s clear and delightful prose. Kan læses som et helt værk eller i uddrag. Workbook with glossary and working suggestions by Svend Aage Larsen.(114, 3 standard pages)
Level: C/B

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir (written even before Barack Obama had won his seat in the Senate), the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. The story begins in New York, where Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father — a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man — has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life and his divided inheritance — first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Written at the age of thirty-three, Dreams from My Father is an unforgettable read which illuminates not only Obama's own journey, but also our universal desire to understand our history and what makes us the people we are. (442 pages)
Level: Library/Depot/Interdisciplinary projects/SRP

A witty memoir that became a word-of-mouth bestseller:

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby — and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her. Author: Elizabeth Gilbert. (348 pages)
Level: 2nd year of Gymnasium / Gode uddrag

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Journalist Hunter S Thompson's classic journey into the  degenerate heart of the American Dream. He enters Las Vegas armed with a veritable arsenal of mind-changing chemicals. His drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers and assorted representatives of the Silent Majority have a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror that your students may well think are “classic”. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. (202 pages) Appendices (26 pages): About the Author; About the Book; Read On.
Level: A/B

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Maya Angelou's autobiography, in which she tells of her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns the power of a white skin and suffers the trauma of rape by her mother's lover. (288 pages)
Level: B

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In this literary autobiography Hanif Kureishi offers a remarkable insight into the birth of a writer — himself. This family story tells how he found his own literary calling from the ashes of his father's failed attempts in the past. The starting point of the memoir is Kureishi's discovery of an abandoned manuscript that recounts his father's childhood in Bombay with the world turning upside down and India splitting in two along religious lines. A family that had lived in India for generations now had to accept a Pakistani identity. And so begins a journey which takes Kureishi through his father's privileged childhood by the sea in Bombay to his adult life hidden away in the suburbs of Bromley — his days spent as a minor official in the Pakistan embassy in London, his nights writing prose, hopeful of one day receiving literary recognition. Along the way this book raises a range of issues, not least the contrast between the rigid religious and family structures and expectations of the India and Pakistan his parents knew with Kureishi's own increasingly liberal Britain — a contrast that has helped to shape his own outlook.  (242 pages)
Level: A/B

A personal story that gives an insight into the 21st century slave trade:

Mende Nazer's happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her village in the Nuba mountains of Sudan. They hacked down terrified villagers, raped the women and abducted the children. Mende was amongst them. She was taken and sold to an Arab woman in Khartoum. She was stripped of her name and her freedom. For seven long years she was kept as a domestic slave, an 'abid', without any pay or a single day off. Her food was the leftover scraps and her bed was the floor of the locked-up garden shed. She endured this harsh and lonely existence without knowing whether her family was alive or dead, for seven long years. Passed on by her master, like a parcel, to a relative in London, Mende eventually managed to escape to freedom. Slave is a shocking first-person insight into the modern day slave trade. It is also a memoir of an African childhood and a moving testimony to a young girl's indomitable spirit in the face of adversity. Author: Mende Nazer. (336 pages)
Level: From the end of the first year of the Gymnasium/HF etc.

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A collection of stories, poems and first-hand recollections about slavery:
In March 1807, the British Parliament passed an Act making the trading and transportation of slaves illegal. It was many years before slavery, as it was known then, was abolished, and slavery still continues today in different ways, but it was a big step forward towards the emancipation of a people. This book draws together some of the finest of today's writers and poets. Their short stories and poems sit alongside first-hand accounts of slavery from freed slaves, making a collection that remembers and commemorates one of the most brutal and long-lasting inflictions of misery that human beings have inflicted upon other human beings. Editor: Malories Blackman. (272 pages)