The Kindness of Strangers: The Autobiography - Kate Adie

This is a book that my dad bought for me as he knows that I will read just about anything! Priced at £7.99, this can be bought a lot cheaper on sites like Amazon or even Ebay, so shop around - you may just bag a bargain. ~~~Synopsis~~~ Kate Adie is one of the world's more well known female reporters for the BBC and has been in some of the most dangerous places. She has reported from Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq, Northern Ireland and China, just to name a few. My title was inspired by a cartoon featured in the book, of two soldiers waiting to go into battle in Iraq, with one saying "We can't start yet ... Kate Adie isn't ...  Read the complete review

When the book reviewing gods ~ okay, a bloke and a lass in an office ~ deigned that their servant theediscerning should have to condense 420pp of autobiography into 150 words, he was a little daunted. He was also quizzical about the subject of the said autobiog ~ Kate Adie. Yes he had grown up with her in the battlefield on the telly of a 6 o'clock news when he was younger, and presumed he admired her for doing so in a decent way, but he would have had other first choices for a weekend's company. However there was a surprise waiting theediscerning, as he soon found the book to be fully interesting, and with a wry humour and sardonic use of anecdote (at ...  Read the complete review