Tag: Autobiographies

  • The Farmer’s Wife – Helen Rebanks

    I have read 2 books by James Rebanks, the husband of the above author. ‘The Shepherd’s Life’ and ‘English Pastoral’ are both excellent reads, written in a cogent and pleasing style and mainly autobiographical. Both books though do have an agenda that the author wants to communicate and that is concerning sustainable farming and our […]

  • November 2020

    I wonder what makes someone write their autobiography? Money, obviously is a frequent motivation but you presumably must also feel that you have something of interest to share with others. Famous people are the ones that publishers and literary agents focus upon but actually I think ‘ordinary’ lives might be just as consuming to read. […]