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Autobiography and memoir

November 2024

  • Nadine Dorries outside Downing Street, September 2021.

    Downfall by Nadine Dorries review – wild wild Westminster

  • A long-haired, bearded Caleb Carr in close up, face-to-face with his cat Masha.

    My Beloved Monster by Caleb Carr review – love letter to an adored companion

  • Lola Young in Westminster

    ‘I’m not saying I’m not scarred. But scars do fade’: Baroness Lola Young on her childhood in care

  • ‘Plangently autobiographical’: Nobody’s Empire by Stuart Murdoch.

    In brief: Nobody’s Empire; Cocktails With George and Martha; Never: The Autobiography – review

  • ‘She gave me the chance that became my life’: Jeanette Winterson on her first editor, Philippa Brewster

  • Audiobook of the week
    A Thousand Threads by Neneh Cherry audiobook review – love, chaos and creativity

  • We all have life stories, we just need to learn how to tell them

    Nova Weetman

  • Books interview
    Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing: ‘Working while grieving was consoling’

  • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Shattered By Hanif Kureishi; The Hidden 20%; Begin Again; The Joe Rogan Experience – review

  • ‘Why do I have an interest in such horrible things?’: Emmanuel Carrère on the Paris terror attacks trial

  • A Beginner’s Guide to Dying by Simon Boas review – what makes life worth living?

  • Bookmark this
    Music memoirs, cooking classes and squatting at Kanye’s: the best Australian books out in November

  • Deborah Levy: ‘A writer’s career is choppy – I was 50 when I found success’

  • Audiobook of the week
    On Bullfighting by AL Kennedy audiobook review – dances with death

  • Book of the day
    Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton review – woman meets leveret

October 2024

  • Hanif Kureshi at his home in London.

    Shattered by Hanif Kureishi review – picking up the pieces

    The Buddha of Suburbia author’s wildly inspiring memoir of illness and defiance
  • Jimmy Barnes with the cover of Highways and Byways, out via Harper Collins.

    Australian book reviews
    Highways and Byways by Jimmy Barnes review – compassionate collection from a master yarnsmith

    Reflective memories and short stories from the Cold Chisel singer show he has lost none of his raconteur’s flair

    • Book of the day
      Shattered by Hanif Kureishi review – broken, bedbound, but unbowed

    • Letters by Oliver Sacks review – valuable insight into a curious mind

    • We All Shine On: John, Yoko & Me by Elliot Mintz review – life as a confidant, fixer… and flunky

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