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Top six nonfiction, January 23, 2000
The Times
The Times

1. ‘TIS

Frank McCourt

You were lucky, Frank. We used to have to write a Pulitzer prize-winning memoir every day of the week or that night our father would beat us to death and dance on our graves.

2. IF ONLY

Geri Halliwell

Nuanced, visceral autobiography from the foremost prose stylist of her generation.

3. THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY

Like boats? Like war? Boy, have I got a treat for you . . .

4. SNAPSHOTS IN TIME: HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Your cousin Jack’s 25th wedding anniversary not included.

5. MANAGING MY LIFE

Alex Ferguson

Memoir from Man Utd’s heyday, when a rematch with Burton Albion would have been unthinkable. How are the mighty fallen.

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6. PARCEL ARRIVED SAFELY: TIED WITH STRING

Michael Crawford

The Some Mothers Do ‘Ave Em star on a nostalgia trip.