Books reviewed by Peter Healy
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From Here You Can't See Paris by Michael Sanders |
This is the American author's account of 13 months spent in 'La France profonde' with his wife and young daughter. Unlike some other books of a similar genre, the people are real people, the places are real places, and the events are real events. It centres on a real restaurant, and describes the difficulties and successes of running a small business in rural France. We know this having lived nearby for over ten years.
(bwl 31 September 2005) |
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To Live Outside the Law: Caught by Operation Julie, Britain's Biggest Drugs Bust by Leaf Fielding |
The true story of an English middle-class 1960s dropout, who lived outside the law, stealing, and cheating, experimenting with drugs, and who eventually became a key member of an important LSD manufacturing and distribution enterprise. This resulted in a long prison sentence. There is no self-pity. Rather an honest and often gripping memoir of his encounters with his family, his friends, the authorities, and the people of the two prisons where he served his punishment.
(bwl 62 Autumn 2011) |
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