Biography
The Book of My Lives, by Aleksandar Hemon
Duncan White is gripped by Aleksandar Hemon's journey from Sarajevo to Chicago.
Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore; Not for Turning by Robin Harris - review
As in the utilities she privatised, competition among Thatcher's biographers hasn't produced much choice for consumers, argues Andy Beckett, but there is new material and a new honesty How much more is there to say about Margaret Thatcher? That these bio
Gluck: Her Biography - Diana Souhami
As stubborn as she was gifted, as fierce as she was tender, and notorious for her mannish dress that was provocative and chic in equal measure, Gluck was an artist and a rebel. Born Hannah Gluckstein in 1895 into the family that founded the J. Lyons & Co.
Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou - review
Maya Angelou's memoir about her relationship with her mother is at odds with the stories told in her earlier work Maya Angelou has already published six autobiographies about her early life and career. Born in 1928, she went from being an impoverished
CS Lewis by Alister McGrath: review
Philip Womack enjoys a sympathetic and finely balanced portrait of the creator of Narnia
Still Standing: The Savage Years - Paul O'Grady
Paul O'Grady shot to fame via his brilliant comic creation, the blonde bombsite Lily Savage. In the first two parts of his bestselling and critically acclaimed autobiography, Paul took us through his childhood in Birkenhead to his first, teetering steps oPaperback review: Gluck - Her Biography, By Diana Souhami
In this new edition of her very first biography - the first of many to deal with the lesbian relationships of writers and artists such as Radclyffe Hall, Gertrude Stein, and Natalie Barney - Diana Souhami expresses the hope that the 1988 work and subsequeStill Standing, By Paul O'Grady
For his third autobiography, O'Grady revisits the Eighties, and the ascent of his alter ego Lily Savage - the brassy, backchatting "Blonde Bombsite" from Liverpool - from sawdust to stardust.
A Delicate Truth, By John le Carre
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, John le Carre was left without a clear subject. The USSR had evaporated, and with it the Cold War antagonisms that informed his spy fiction.