A memoir about growing up in care has won this year’s Gordon Burn prize. Jenni Fagan was revealed as the winner of the £10,000 award for her book Ootlin at a ceremony... Read more »
“The Secret Painter” here is Joe Tucker’s uncle Eric, apparently the most unaesthetic of men, inhabiting the most unaesthetic of places, the industrial town of Warrington, Lancashire. He kept his trousers up... Read more »
At 88 years of age, Pope Francis is the oldest pontiff for more than a century. Yet, after major surgery in 2023, and persistent knee problems that require the use of a... Read more »
The Society of Authors (SoA) is calling on celebrities and the publishing industry to properly acknowledge the writers behind celebrity books, particularly those aimed at children. In a statement published on Monday,... Read more »
“My Good Bright Wolf,” a new memoir by the novelist Sarah Moss, begins in dishabille. A narrator is speaking to herself in the second person, and she’s using language recognizable from fairy... Read more »
Sales of Boris Johnsonâs memoir, Unleashed, have slumped by 62% in its second week since publication. The heavily marketed tome, promoted in a prolonged media round by the former prime minister in... Read more »
Book News: Pope Francis to publish Hope, the first memoir from a sitting pontiff
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Pope Francis has written an autobiography, publisher Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced. Hope, which will be published globally in January next year, is the first such book written by a sitting... Read more »
Al Pacino, whose nickname âSonny Boyâ comes from the Al Jolson song of that title, begins this fine memoir in 1943 when he is three and his mother, Rose, a pretty, sensitive... Read more »