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  • Friday, 13 April, 2018
    Review Non-Fiction
    Things That Bother Me by Galen Strawson — a case for mistaken identity

    An exhilarating collection of essays examining consciousness, selfhood and free will

    Friday, 13 April, 2018
  • Friday, 13 April, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    Short review: Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different by Ben Brooks

    A collection of biographies about against-the-odds achievements

    Friday, 13 April, 2018
  • Tuesday, 10 April, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    Living with Will Self

    An apprenticeship with the bad-boy of 1990s fiction makes for a moving lament for a vanished age

    Tuesday, 10 April, 2018
  • Friday, 6 April, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    A Tokyo Romance by Ian Buruma — lost in Tokyo

    The life story of an intellectual who lived in Japan in his youth and dabbled in dance and theatre

    Friday, 6 April, 2018
  • Friday, 6 April, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy — the art of life

    A taut memoir beautifully exposes how dreams and lives are constrained

    Friday, 6 April, 2018
  • Friday, 30 March, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian — invisible in plain sight

    A biography of the golfer seeks to decode ‘the most mysterious athlete of his time’

    Friday, 30 March, 2018
  • Friday, 16 March, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    In Byron’s Wake by Miranda Seymour — poetic justice

    A fine double portrait reveals the true achievements of Lord Byron’s wife and daughter

    Friday, 16 March, 2018
  • Thursday, 15 March, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    Thinking Zbig: America’s grand strategist

    A long-awaited biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski examines the foreign-policy adviser’s complex legacy

    Thursday, 15 March, 2018
  • Friday, 9 March, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    Coal Black Mornings by Brett Anderson — uncool Britannia

    The Suede singer eschews the ‘coke and gold discs’ approach of most pop memoirists

    Friday, 9 March, 2018
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  • Friday, 9 March, 2018
    Books
    Writer Claire Tomalin: ‘You begin to see certain patterns’

    The biographer on personal tragedy, literary success — and tackling the subject of her own life

    Friday, 9 March, 2018
  • Friday, 2 March, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    Free Woman by Lara Feigel — what would Doris Lessing do?

    A personal inquiry into freedom and modern womanhood grapples with a complex legacy

    Friday, 2 March, 2018
  • Friday, 23 February, 2018
    FT Books Essay
    Close readings: the rise of the bibliomemoir

    Why are we so drawn to accounts of the interplay between life and literature?

    Friday, 23 February, 2018
  • Friday, 16 February, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    The Wife’s Tale by Aida Edemariam — hard times

    A vivid family portrait brings a century of Ethiopian history to life

    Friday, 16 February, 2018
  • Friday, 16 February, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    A Hero for High Times by Ian Marchant — turn on, tune in, drop out

    The tall tales of an ageing gonzo hero take us back to the counter-culture

    Friday, 16 February, 2018
  • Friday, 16 February, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    Short review: Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

    A confessional memoir lays out a mythology of modern courtship

    Friday, 16 February, 2018
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    Crossing over: where Mexico meets America

    A memoir by a former US Border Patrol agent is full of insights into the migrant experience

    Wednesday, 14 February, 2018
  • Friday, 9 February, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    Educated by Tara Westover — more than just survival

    A journey from Idaho isolation is powerfully described in this memoir of learning

    Friday, 9 February, 2018
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    Somebody I Used to Know — an honest, insightful memoir of Alzheimer’s

    Wendy Mitchell’s account of life with dementia is much more than the first book of its kind

    Wednesday, 31 January, 2018
  • Friday, 26 January, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    Maybe Esther by Katja Petrowskaja — ‘When there are no more people to ask’

    A vivid account of one eastern European family’s turbulent 20th century

    Friday, 26 January, 2018
  • Thursday, 25 January, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers — conflict coffee

    Two cultures illuminate one another in this true story of a US-raised entrepreneur caught up in Yemen’s civil war

    Thursday, 25 January, 2018
  • Friday, 19 January, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan — dark materials

    A memoir by the author of ‘The Joy Luck Club’ dwells lightly on literary success

    Friday, 19 January, 2018
  • Friday, 12 January, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    Short review: Notes on a Foreign Country by Suzy Hansen

    This fluid amalgam of memoir and journalism is a very readable challenge to American exceptionalism

    Friday, 12 January, 2018
  • Friday, 12 January, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    No Place To Lay One’s Head by Françoise Frenkel — a silence broken

    This rediscovered memoir by a Jewish bookseller is a vital eyewitness account of Vichy France

    Friday, 12 January, 2018
  • Friday, 12 January, 2018
    Review Biography and memoir
    In Search of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson — maker of monsters

    A new biography presents the creator of ‘Frankenstein’ as a writer of moral seriousness as well as vivid Gothic imagination

    Friday, 12 January, 2018
  • Friday, 5 January, 2018
    Review History books
    White King by Leanda de Lisle — reign of error

    A sympathetic biography of Charles I invites us to reconsider a much maligned monarch

    Friday, 5 January, 2018
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