From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough review – a book built on grief | Autobiography and memoir

From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough review – a book built on grief | Autobiography and memoir

What to expect from Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir? Some sanitised, cagey reminiscences, dutifully studded with anecdotes about her father, Elvis, the king of rock’n’roll, who died aged 42 in 1977? Instead, it’s... Read more »
My Roman Year by André Aciman review – Memento amore | Autobiography and memoir

My Roman Year by André Aciman review – Memento amore | Autobiography and memoir

‘We were elsewhere people,” André Aciman writes in this memoir of the year he spent in Rome in the mid-1960s. Aged 15, he left Egypt with his deaf mother and younger brother... Read more »
Posthumous Gerald Durrell autobiography to be published | Books

Posthumous Gerald Durrell autobiography to be published | Books

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 »
My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir by Sarah Moss review – an interrogation of an eating disorder | Autobiography and memoir

My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir by Sarah Moss review – an interrogation of an eating disorder | Autobiography and memoir

Sarah Moss’s 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 »
From poverty, psychiatric hospital and writing in a shed to literary stardom: Janet Frame at 100 | Autobiography and memoir

From poverty, psychiatric hospital and writing in a shed to literary stardom: Janet Frame at 100 | Autobiography and memoir

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 »
Sister in Law by Harriet Wistrich review – in defence of women | Autobiography and memoir

Sister in Law by Harriet Wistrich review – in defence of women | Autobiography and memoir

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 »
Coming Home by Brittney Griner review – from hoop dreams to a living hell | Autobiography and memoir

Coming Home by Brittney Griner review – from hoop dreams to a living hell | Autobiography and memoir

The text messages that open Brittney Griner’s memoir are a chilling short story. “Hey baby I got stopped by security at customs.” “If you don’t hear from me for like one hour... Read more »
My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel review – sex, lies and the making of a standup | Autobiography and memoir

My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel review – sex, lies and the making of a standup | Autobiography and memoir

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 “a... Read more »
The Language of War by Oleksandr Mykhed review – ‘Eat, kill, grief, repeat’ reflections from Ukraine | Autobiography and memoir

The Language of War by Oleksandr Mykhed review – ‘Eat, kill, grief, repeat’ reflections from Ukraine | Autobiography and memoir

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 »
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