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Autobiography and memoir

April 2025

  • 9. I am first in the line with no headwear, holding an AK-47 on my shoulder, Kharote village, Maidaan-Shar, 1997

    Delusions of Paradise by Maiwand Banayee review – a compelling rejection of fundamentalism

  • A barn own hovering over it's prey at night.

    Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark by Dan Richards review – night owls of all feathers

  • black and white class photo of young students

    The devastating legacy of Native boarding schools: ‘no way people can apologize it away’

  • Monk's House in Rodmell, East Sussex, Virginia Woolf's country home and retreat.

    In the Rhododendrons by Heather Christle review – back to the mother land

  • Book of the day
    Chopping Onions on My Heart by Samantha Ellis review – can you save a culture?

  • Other lives
    Johnny Green obituary

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

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

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

  • 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

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