Can anybody recommend a good biography ?

[inej]

I have just read the (minor celebrity ) biography of Fran Cosgrave and was really interested , i couldn't put the book down . Can anyone recommend any good ones. Preferably the ones where it is told in their own words where it sounds like they have written themselves ?
thanks

[willa]

I'm currently reading "Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life" by the (then) Queen Noor of Jordan. She is the American Lisa Halaby who, four years after earning degrees in architecture and urban planning from Princeton Univ., married King Hussein. It's a fascinating tale of how a fish out of water made the aquarium her own. Very inspiring.

[whiffey]

I am reading Eric Sykes autobiography. A lovely warm-hearted and very funny man.

[loopyc]

stephen smith- addict. i read lots of biographies but this is definatly the best i have read about a man dealing with drug addiction. it was to be made in to a film with robbie williams playing stephens part.

[rhona_j]

Goldie Hawns one is good I've heard, I think it's something like 'A lotus grows in the mud'

[kittenlittle]

I know it's not exactly what you're after, but I read an extract from a new book written by the Queen Mother's equerry. It seemed really intresting and funny.

[mosesg]

Wild Child-Life with Jim Morrison by Linda Ashcroft could have read this book over and over again (autobiobraphy)

Whoopi Goldberg - 'Book' is really funny, it is just like she is talking to you

Martin Kemp's was quite good as well

I have also read Ellen McArthurs book and it was really interesting

[CLOWN TICKLE]

stephen fry moahib is my washpot

[Kialouanne]

Jodie Marsh's book surprised me by being good to read!

I have also read (and can recommend) Sharon Osbourne's and Goldie Hawn's and both of these are on sale at Waterstones at the moment!

[sue11]

Here are my recommendations.
Past Imperfect by Joan Collins is extremely interesting, if you can still buy it.
The Insider by Piers Morgan. All about his life as the News of the World and then Mirror editor, refreshingly honest and very funny.
Stop the Ride by Dave Courtney. He is a celebrity gangster and once you get over the swearing in the book, I would definately say this is the funniest book I have read in my whole life. Once I had read it, it got passed around the whole office and everyone, old and young alike enjoyed it.
The book by Paul Whatisname, Princess Di's butler is very good and makes for surprising reading.
If you can get hold of it, Stick it Up Your Punter, The Rise and Fall of the Sun newspaper is also very interesting. Look on Abe booksite, but don't pay Amazon's exhorbitant prices.
Max Cliffords biography is okay, lots of spin, but that is what you would expect of course!
Sharon Osborne's book was for me surprisingly disappointing for such a seemingly warm and funny person.
That is all I can think of for now!
Cheers Sue

[sue11]

Oh yes, another two. The first one, I think it is called Princess, about the life of a female member of the royal family in Saudi Arabia. Shocking and painful to read but very good.
Also Wild Swans, about three generations of a family in China. Also very shocking but uplifting in the end.
Sue