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A sort-of memoir by the pioneering journalist who died in 2021 evades a traditional narrative
Swept along by revolutionary forces, the young émigré seeks to realise her dreams of ‘freedom and fantasy’ in 1920s France
The Scottish poet delves into the murky waters of his life and emerges with clarity and wisdom
Claire Bushey explores the cost of US healthcare after her treatment for breast cancer. Then, Henry Mance reviews Prince Harry’s autobiography
The memoir is arguably the most insightful royal book in a generation, yet still leaves readers with many questions about the monarchy unanswered
Biographer Claire Harman uses the great proto-Modernist’s fiction to illuminate her dramatic, short life
Essayist-biographer’s memoir evokes Rousseau and Augustine as it charts his life’s dramas and traumas
Apart from a prodigious output, what artistic traits did the 19th-century novelist share with the late pop musician?
Graham Boynton’s biography turns the spotlight on the American artist and adventurer
Darryl Pinckney’s memoir fondly recalls his friendship with Elizabeth Hardwick, the doyenne of the world of letters who mentored and supported him
A deft biography of the Australian-American author illuminates the alchemical interplay of her life and fiction
Two very different books reveal the relationship between the former spy and his fiction
The U2 singer tells the story of his rise from working-class Dublin lad to rock star activist
Richard Fairman selects his must-read titles
Carl Wilkinson selects his must-read titles
Would the actors have wanted private conversations and diaries repackaged and published?
Paddy Manning’s biography of Rupert Murdoch’s heir-apparent is colourful, but leaves some questions unanswered
The Australian musician releases a book of interviews conducted with the critic Seán O’Hagan
Christopher de Hamel brings different worlds to life through the keepers of medieval manuscripts
A memoir by Russian-American writer Keith Gessen offers insight into all parental anxieties from birth to flying the nest
Amid the demure prose in Paul Clements’ biography of the historian and travel writer are glimpses of a titanic ego
The writer on the savage realities of the homeland he fled at the start of the Ukraine war
A belated English-language version of 2001’s ‘Se perdre’ comes as the French author wins the Nobel Prize
Actor Paterson Joseph stands out in a crop of new writers tackling grief, Ukraine, Samuel Pepys and the first black Briton of letters
A timely memoir that shines light on the global roots of nationalism by tracing four generations of migration between Italy and England
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