Christmas is a classic time for celebrities to release their autobiographies. Inspired by this, our Librarian, Rachel Chavez, runs an annual Christmas Competition where students and staff are asked whose life story they would like to find underneath their Christmas tree this year. It can be someone alive or dead, real or fictitious – who would prompt them to open the book, or put on their headphones to listen to the audiobook! Everyone who entered was put into a prize draw to win a festive goodie bag.
There are always some really interesting suggestions. This year we had:
Jim Carrey (actor)
Henry VIII (King)
J. Robert Oppenheimer (theoretical physicist)
Lady Dannatt (Norfolk’s first female Lord Lieutenant)
The CIA or US Air Force person in charge of Area 51
Miranda Hart (actress and comedian)
Darth Vader (character from the Star Wars films)
Liz Truss (politician and former Prime Minister)
Daenerys Targaryen (fictional character from George R. R. Martin’s series of A Song of Ice and Fire books and the subsequent TV adaptation)
Elon Musk (businessman)
Prime Minister Angela Rayner (Deputy Prime Minister)
Stalin (historical Soviet leader)
Dick Turpin (historical highwayman)
James Hansen (American scientist)
Luigi (video game character)
Edmund “Bunny” Corcoran (fictional character in Donna Tartt’s novel The Secret History)
Irena Sendler (historical Polish humanitarian aid worker)
Congratulations go to Callum who was randomly selected as the winner of the festive goodie bag.
