Gisèle Pelicot describes shock of seeing herself like ‘a rag doll’ in memoir | Gisèle Pelicot

Gisèle Pelicot describes shock of seeing herself like ‘a rag doll’ in memoir | Gisèle Pelicot

Gisèle Pelicot, who became a global symbol of courage during the trial of her ex-husband and the dozens of men who raped her while she was unconscious, has described her shock when... Read more »
The Colour of Home by Sajid Javid review – from one hostile environment to another | Autobiography and memoir

The Colour of Home by Sajid Javid review – from one hostile environment to another | Autobiography and memoir

Sajid Javid’s memoir traces his journey from being a frightened child in racist 1970s Rochdale to becoming a leading member of a political party that attacks and marginalises people like him. However, it is... Read more »
Fatima Bhutto on her abusive relationship: ‘I thought it could never happen to me’ | Autobiography and memoir

Fatima Bhutto on her abusive relationship: ‘I thought it could never happen to me’ | Autobiography and memoir

Had Fatima Bhutto been left to her own devices, her devastating forthcoming memoir would have been almost entirely about her relationship with her dog, Coco. “I know it sounds nuts,” she laughs. And it’s true that... Read more »
The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffiths review – a powerful portrait of loss and violence | Autobiography and memoir

The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffiths review – a powerful portrait of loss and violence | Autobiography and memoir

The night before her wedding to Salman Rushdie in 2021, the American poet and novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths was fretting about her best friend. Kamilah Aisha Moon was due to read a... Read more »
Googoosh: A Sinful Voice by Googoosh with Tara Dehlavi review – the extraordinary story of an Iranian icon | Autobiography and memoir

Googoosh: A Sinful Voice by Googoosh with Tara Dehlavi review – the extraordinary story of an Iranian icon | Autobiography and memoir

If you ask any Iranian to name the most important female pop star in our country’s history, they’ll say Googoosh. Nobody else comes close. Over six decades of revolution, suppression and exile, Googoosh has... Read more »
A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke audiobook review – an honest and hilarious memoir | Kathy Burke

A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke audiobook review – an honest and hilarious memoir | Kathy Burke

A lot of terrible things happen to Kathy Burke in her memoir, though you won’t find her mired in self-pity. Burke was a toddler when her mother died from stomach cancer, meaning... Read more »
Angela Rayner to publish memoir amid talk of potential Labour leadership challenge | Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner to publish memoir amid talk of potential Labour leadership challenge | Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner is writing a memoir about her rise to become deputy prime minister and her subsequent fall from grace, the Guardian can confirm, in a move that will be seen as... Read more »
The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffiths review – a powerful portrait of loss and violence | Autobiography and memoir

Virginia Roberts Giuffre: Epstein accuser’s memoir sells 1m copies in two months | Books

A posthumous memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s best-known accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, has sold 1m copies worldwide in just the two months after its release. Publisher Alfred A Knopf announced on... Read more »
The Colour of Home by Sajid Javid review – from one hostile environment to another | Autobiography and memoir

Joyride by Susan Orlean review – an extraordinary, curious life | Autobiography and memoir

In 2017, 10 years after Susan Orlean profiled Caltech-trained physicist turned professional origami artist Robert Lang for the New Yorker, she attended the OrigamiUSA convention to take Lang’s workshop on folding a... Read more »
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