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Autobiography and memoir

April 2025

  • Melinda Gates.

    The Next Day by Melinda French Gates review – Melinda on life, before and after Bill

  • Frances Ryan - courtesy of Frances Ryan

    Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life by Frances Ryan review – countering the stereotypes

  • Ione Skye

    ‘I’d love Keanu to read it’: Ione Skye on bisexuality, infidelity and her wild tell-all memoir

  • History<br>Magic lantern slide circa 1900.Victorian/Edwardian.Social History.Lambert Simnel (c. 1477 - c. 1525) was a pretender to the throne of England. His claim to be the Earl of Warwick in 1487 threatened the newly established reign of King Henry VII (reigned 1485-1509). Simnel became the figurehead of a Yorkist rebellion organised by John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln. The rebellion was crushed in 1487. Simnel was pardoned and was thereafter employed by the Royal household as a scullion, and, later, as a falconer.(Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

    In brief: Uncommon Ground; The Pretender; All That Glitters – reviews

  • Audiobook of the week
    Knife by Salman Rushdie audiobook review – 27 seconds that changed everything

  • Patti Smith to publish ‘intimate’ new memoir, Bread of Angels

  • Chopping Onions on my Heart by Samantha Ellis review – an Iraqi Jew’s celebration of an endangered culture

  • In brief: Bad Nature; Bad Friend; The Flitting – review

  • Observer book of the week
    When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter review – all the fun of the Fair

  • I went searching for the grandmother I never met. Under a tree where she once sat with Leonard Cohen, I broke

    Gina Chick

  • ‘The anger became bigger than shame’: the writer whose memoir of child abuse has taken France by storm

  • Audiobook of the week
    My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss audiobook review – a life shaped by anorexia and literature

  • Book of the day
    When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter review – juicy stories from the heydey of magazines

  • The Possibility of Tenderness by Jason Allen-Paisant review – a Jamaican childhood

March 2025

  • ‘I knew it was vital’ … Angela Jaeger, right, at a Billy Idol record signing in 1978.

    ‘Society SUCKS!’ The fanatical diary of a teen scribbler who threw herself into punk

  • James Harris for John Harris book review

    Maybe I’m Amazed by John Harris review – with a little help from John, Paul, George and Ringo

  • Portrait of Didier Eribon

    The Life, Old Age and Death of a Working-Class Woman review – a son confronts his mother’s decline

  • John Harris with his son James at Camp Bestival in 2014.

    Book of the day
    Maybe I’m Amazed by John Harris review – a father and his autistic son bond through music

  • From Blackpool to Play School: Johnny Ball on his days as a ‘bag of nerves’ comic

  • Free by Amanda Knox review – after the acquittal

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