Genre: Biography

Review: My Story: Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan by Sufiya Ahmed

Posted October 22, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: My Story: Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan by Sufiya Ahmed

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.My Story: Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan by Sufiya Ahmed Published by Scholastic Children’s Books on August 6, 2020 Genres: Biography, Fiction, Historical, History, Non-Fiction Pages: 208 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads My Story: Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan is the thrilling story of British-Indian World War Two heroine, Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan. It’s 1940 and hundreds of families are being forced to flee Nazi-occupied France. Noor refuses to stand by while Nazi forces invade her home and terrorise her people, so she travels to England and signs up to join the war efforts despite her mother’s wishes. It isn’t long before her talents are noticed and she is chosen by Winston Churchill to sneak back into France as an undercover agent. Noor returns home but this time, as a secret agent Can Noor keep her true identity a secret, report her findings back to London and help the Allies win the war? I […]

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Review: A Life Story: David Attenborough by Lizzie Huxley-Jones

Posted September 4, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: A Life Story: David Attenborough by Lizzie Huxley-Jones

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.David Attenborough by Lizzie Huxley-Jones Series: A Life Story #5 Published by Scholastic Children’s Books on August 6, 2020 Genres: Biography, Children’s, Non-Fiction Pages: 240 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads David Attenborough: explorer, broadcaster, natural historian.Explore the beauty of the world we inhabit with national treasure, David Attenborough. A Life Story: this gripping series throws the reader directly into the lives of modern society’s most influential figures. With striking black-and-white illustration along with timelines and fascinating facts. I am a huge fan of David Attenborough, so I knew when I read his life story that I would be in for a treat. And as I’m currently rewatching Blue Planet while writing this you know that I write this from the heart. I really enjoyed reading this and being able to dip in and out of the various chapters. I loved that each chapter was filled with not only information […]

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Review: 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Posted February 13, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup on January 1st 1970 Genres: Biography, Historical, Non-Fiction Format: E-Book Source: Own Copy Buy on Amazon Goodreads A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. I decided to read 12 Years a Slave before I saw the film, and I managed to read the whole book in one sitting on a train ride home. How can a book like this have disappeared from bookshelves? I am thankful to the film for bringing this story back from obscurity. Twelve Years a Slave conveys […]

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