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 »
Joyride by Susan Orlean review – an extraordinary, curious life | 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 »
Future Boy by Michael J Fox review – secrets from the set of a definitive 80s movie | Autobiography and memoir

Future Boy by Michael J Fox review – secrets from the set of a definitive 80s movie | Autobiography and memoir

Michael J Fox has already eked out four books of Hollywood memoir, so the justification for a fifth – written with longtime collaborator Nelle Fortenberry – ought to be good. It is: the... Read more »
Dear England: Lessons in Leadership by Gareth Southgate review – an exercise in passive-aggressive self-justification | Autobiography and memoir

Dear England: Lessons in Leadership by Gareth Southgate review – an exercise in passive-aggressive self-justification | Autobiography and memoir

This is an oddly dull, oddly irresistible football book. Even its title is confusing. Dear England is already the name of a hit Gareth Southgate play, a forthcoming Gareth Southgate TV show... Read more »
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