A final posthumous work of autobiography by Gerald Durrell is set to come out at the end of the year, publisher Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced. Drawing on a memoir that... Read more »
Sarah Mossâs memoir, the story of how her upbringing developed in her a lifelong, destructive relationship to food, is full of daring. It is a complicated tale and her telling is many-sided,... Read more »
In February 1975 the New Zealand writer Janet Frame was the subject of a rare interview for television conducted by the journalist Michael Noonan. This relaxed, intimate retrospective of her life and work... Read more »
In 2011, Harriet Wistrich got a call about Sally Challen, who had been convicted of the murder of her husband, Richard. Sally had bludgeoned him to death with a hammer at their Surrey home... Read more »
The text messages that open Brittney Grinerâs memoir are a chilling short story. âHey baby I got stopped by security at customs.â âIf you donât hear from me for like one hour... Read more »
In early 2015, a couple of months after his mother died, David Baddiel wrote to his younger brother, Dan, a sometime taxi driver in New York, setting out his plans for âa... Read more »
Oleksandr Mykhed and his wife Olena lost their home when the Russians invaded Ukraine. Before February 2022 he had never held a gun in his hands. But a week before the invasion,... Read more »
The efflorescence of menâs magazines in the UK lasted from about 1985 to 2010. You may recall their titles on newsagentsâ shelves â Arena, GQ, Maxim, Esquire â near in time but... Read more »
For those less well-versed than me in the world of high 1980s Hollywood and its various satellites â or do I mean parasites? â it may be useful if I begin this... Read more »