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Memoir
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The Wife’s Tale by Aida Edemariam
‘A ring was threaded onto her third finger, another onto the man’s. It would be years before she understood what she had promised.’ The Wife’s Tale, a personal history, is...
Brave by Rose McGowan
“Hello fellow human, pleased to meet you. My name is Rose McGowan and I am BRAVE. I want you to be too.” Brave is the no-holds barred memoir/manifesto by Rose...
A Memoir Full of Summers: Friends with the Enemy by Val Mulkerns
Every now and then you pick up a book and begin to read it – and you just want to keep on reading. It’s not something I’d normally say about...
Porcelain – A Memoir by Moby
From one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life...
The Dead Beside Us by Tony Doherty
When your da dies so suddenly, killed by a soldier’s bullet, it does things to your head and body that you can’t really work out. Something had changed in me....
Justice for Laughing Boy: Connor Sparrowhawk – A Death by Indifference by Sara Ryan
There was no justice for LB. Connor Sparrowhawk was eighteen years old when he died a preventable death whilst in the care of Slade House, a specialist unit run and...
Two Sons Too Many by Aidan McNally
Two Sons Too Many is about an amazing young man and the life he has endured from a troubled teenager to a well travelled lad who emigrated – and then...
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Looking Death in the Eye Having endured the emotional battering of reading Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, I was reluctant to recommend it. As a fully paid up member...
Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir by Doron Weber
A Beautiful Life Immortal Bird, by Doron Weber. Simon & Schuster. 2012. 358 Pages. Immortal Bird, whose title is taken from Keat’s meditative and fraught poem Ode to a Nightingale,...
The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books by John Carey
Orcs, pubs and evensong… The spires are dreamy against a stark blue sky. It is the kind of spring day you would wish for in Prague, but I am in...
