There you go, how I distinguish between books I need to abandon and books that…I just didn’t finish because I forgot. I found that sometimes it slowed down a lot and repeated a lot of things, but can you actually critise misery memoir? Maybe wondering how angry my uncle was at my still being there week after week, and having no one but her married lover to tell her secrets to. With 150 striking colour photographs exploring 100 worlds, Ghost Towns is a fascinating visual history of the mysteries of lost worlds.

I’m sorry, but I just don’t have enough hours in my day to slog through something that’s poorly written, makes no sense, and just makes me angry. To step into an abandoned place is to cross a kind of threshold into the past - to time travel from the present day to the instant that people departed. It was only supposed to be a temporary arrangement, just until the day she could come back to get me. The Vielmetter gallery in Los Angeles is currently hosting a solo exhibition of paintings by Celia Paul, artist and author of the New York Review Books memoirs Self-Portrait and Letters to Gwen John.As usual I wanted to show Mummy that it was her I wanted to be my mum, not her sister; that this was my family and that I never wanted to be taken away from them. The aftermath that a person may face after the abuse can be so life altering and yet social media be the answer to ones deepest wish, to belong. There was this guy with 50 novels that claims that the literature is cyclic – there are clear peaks and valleys corresponding to an aging population.

I was fascinated by her: by her beauty and calmness and easy laughter, by her soft Irish accent and her gentleness with me.There are thousands of ruined castles, abbeys, churches, ancient sites, houses and mills spread around the island of Ireland.

I performed feats of scheduling gymnastics to carve out the three-to-four-hour chunks I needed to really get lost in my writing. As her mother’s illness worsened – her mind slipping away into dementia, her behaviour more and more childlike by the day – maybe Kathy saw it as some kind of divine retribution, left there washing, dressing and feeding her, nursing her mother instead of the baby she had left behind in England. Monica Allan's emotional memoir tells the story of her childhood and how her mother twice tried to kill her.later on, she meets craig which she sees as a father figure, and becomes intimate wit, she later finds out that he is a 'nutjob' pretty much like her uncle and tries to get away from him unsuccesfully. Illustrated with 180 photographs, Abandoned Ireland provides a fascinating pictorial exploration of the little-known corners of this enchanting land.

Sometimes when we were on our own she would tell me stories about Kathy, and how she came over to England on her own on the ferry to have me in London, stories that only part of me wanted to hear. Like so many authors, I’d bought into the idea that being on social media and chasing followers was “working. Anya discovers the word blog and makes one eventually after many months this picks up traction and she’s asked to eventually right this book, she gets a place of her own and seems content. Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published.My heart goes out to her, the poor thing must've been so desperate as a child, desperate to escape but desperate to be with her "mummy". I hate, hate, hate it when a blurb makes the book sound so good and then I open it up and wonder what on Earth I’m reading. It takes ages to admit that she is homeless and put all these things into words yet she finds courage to go ahead. Anya grew up with an uncle and aunt because her biological parents had an affair no one could ever find out about.