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Jefferson won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir of growing up among Chicago's Black elite - what she refers to as 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where resi... read more

Negroland: A Memoir

Margo Jefferson

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The novelist (of, most recently, the hugely loved Horse) has written a graceful memoir of sudden bereavement, its bureaucratic aftermath and finding solace in solitude.

Memorial Days

Geraldine Brooks

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The author's Jewish great-grandfather was not simply a chemist who happened to get out of Germany in good time: he was involved in developing chemical weapons. An uncomfortable trail for the... read more

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance

Joe Dunthorne

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Dyer was born in Cheltenham in the late fifties. Mother was a dinner lady, father was a planning engineer. His reflections on growing up in England during the '50s are characteristically tho... read more

Homework: A Memoir

Geoff Dyer

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A second volume of memoirs — hilarious and brilliantly written — following I Fear for this Boy: Some Chapters of Accidents. One such accident includes a karaoke injury in Japan…

The Glory Years: More Chapters of Accidents

Theo Fennell

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All seven of the author's children are world-class classical musicians. A memoir of raising them and navigating the opportunities and obstacles posed by talent, ambition and race.

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason

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In 2006, when Mulligan was teaching at a North London school and moonlighting at weekends in the TA, he was called up to serve in Iraq. This memoir is relentlessly funny, bleak and mordant b... read more

The Accidental Soldier: Dispatches from Quite Near the Front Line ...

Owain Mulligan

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Memoir by the lively London-born Irishman who found fortune in NY with his restaurants (Balthazar, Pastis, Minetta Tavern, Morandi).

I Regret Almost Everything

Keith McNally

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After the success of The Secret of Cooking, BW has returned to the psychology of food and the emotional heft of battered wooden spoons: an elegant mix of memoir and interrogation.

The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss and Kitchen Objects ...

Bee Wilson

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An accomplished historian mines his childhood experience of the cruelty of the boarding school he was sent to aged eight.

A Very Private School

Charles Spencer

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The fabulous singer who spied for the French Resistance, adopted twelve children, marched with Martin Luther King, was awarded the Croix de Guerre and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'h... read more

Fearless and Free: A Memoir

Josephine Baker

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The first autobiography by a Pope.

Hope: The Autobiography

Pope Francis

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A sprightly book of twenty-three vignettes, just a couple of pages each... reminiscences from the great Dame's life. Privately published in a small, smart hardback.

Patchwork Pieces

Antonia Fraser

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A harrowing reconstruction of the author's escape, aged 15, from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Nuns and aid workers helped her to escape hidden in a truck; her safe delivery... read more

The Convoy

Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

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A re-issue of McCarthy's brilliant memoir - so painful and unjust that Anita Brookner held that Jane Eyre had got away lightly in comparison. First published in 1957.

Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood

Mary McCarthy

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The publisher's blurb informs us that EW is 'at the apex of the gay canon'. What could they mean?

The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir

Edmund White

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No doubt there will be humour at the expense of the Tory MPs who fell by the wayside for several mortal sins (mostly greed but also the ill-advised coveting of thy neighbour's tractor in the... read more

Ungovernable: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip ...

Simon Hart

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A chance encounter with a map sets Roberts off on another unusual and intrepid exploration: this time a story of colonial Africa, when King Leopold tried to introduce Indian elephants to the... read more

A Training School for Elephants

Sophy Roberts

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The death of the author's father brings her to Shetland and the pandemic kept her there. What follows is a powerful, nuanced tale of navigating the challenge of a big onshore windfarm that h... read more

The Shetland Way: Community and Climate Crisis on my Father’s Is ...

Marianne Brown

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From Central America to Tierra del Fuego in the mid-1970s, by whatever means possible. Drawing on her letters and diaries of the time, Stewart writes engagingly about her adventures and the ... read more

A Long Way South: Salvaged Memories from Travels in Latin America ...

Sara Stewart

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Dalton, who has worked for over a decade as a parliamentary and Foreign Office policy advisor and speech-writer, found herself raising a leveret in lockdown. Her minimalist approach to this ... read more

Raising Hare

Chloe Dalton

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If you enjoy books that make you laugh aloud, this darkly humorous, touching and brilliantly original explication of a deeply pessimistic worldview might be your thing. The author attributes... read more

FEH: A Memoir

Shalom Auslander

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It is nearly thirty years since Aciman's superb memoir of his Alexandrian childhood, Out of Egypt. Since Call Me By Your Name, he has mutated from an academic scholar of Proust into a bestse... read more

My Roman Year

André Aciman

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The late Swedish writer and poet's last book which she asked her friend and publisher Sigrid Rausing to complete and translate. This memoir is notable for its quiet atomising of desire, memo... read more

And the Walls Became the World All Around

Johanna Ekström

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Selected journalism, lectures and recollections from the veteran historian and commentator.

The Back of an Envelope: A Life in Writing

Peter Hennessy

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A walk that led to a fall that left the writer without the use of his arms and legs in 2022: a remarkable memoir by the author of My Beautiful Launderette and much else.

Shattered

Hanif Kureishi

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The complete memoirs. A new edition of this substantial tome, last published here in 1988 and long out of print.

The War Memoirs

Charles de Gaulle

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A memoir by the last surviving SOE agent to have been working behind enemy lines in France during WW2.

The Last Secret Agent: The Extraordinary Story of a WW2 Spy, Told in H ...

Pippa Latour

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Sullivan was US ambassador in Moscow for most of the period 2019-2022; he retired from his post six months after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia’s Wa ...

John J. Sullivan

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A much anticipated memoir on the flaws of the recent Tory hand of PMs - by the former chair of the 1922 Committee, who has hitherto kept mum.

Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers ...

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Or should that be 'untucked'?

Unleashed

Boris Johnson

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A memoir that the late opposition leader and dissident began after his poisoning in 2020.

Patriot

Alexei Navalny

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A memoir from the funny, clever, supreme interpreter of Shakespeare, giant of the contemporary stage, and thoroughly Good Egg.

A Piece of Work: Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories ...

Simon Russell Beale

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Now in his nineties, Caine shows no signs of retiring although he has spent more time writing than acting in the last few years.

Don’t Look Back, You’ll Trip Over: My Guide to Life ...

Michael Caine

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The adventures of the boy from the Bronx who wore away the boards of the avant-garde theatre scene in New York until his mid-thirties, when he had his extraordinary success in The Godfather ... read more

Sonny Boy: A Memoir

Al Pacino

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One of the 'betweens' for this comic genius was of course her unforgettable Mrs Bennet.

Out of Character: From Abigail’s Party to Gavin and Stacey, and ...

Alison Steadman

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