Showing posts with label ancestry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ancestry. Show all posts

Sunday, February 25, 2018

NOT MY FATHER'S SON


Alan Cumming. NOT MY FATHER'S SON: A MEMOIR. Harper Collins, 2014.

A wonderful memoir, partly because: he's an attractive celebrity on PBS; he's a Scot; he was inspired by being featured on the British version of Who Do You Think You Are?; he gracefully shifts between childhood and present, between painful memories of abuse and resulting adult anxiety; and he has a wicked sense of humour. 


THE HEART OF THE ANCIENT WOOD

Charles G.D. Roberts. THE HEART OF THE ANCIENT WOOD. Reprint, Formac, 2007. First published 1900. Another of the bundle from the Bookman sal...