People
Reviews of biographies, autobiographies, correspondence, memoirs, and other ‘life writing’.
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Book review: ‘The Instant’ by Amy Liptrot
The follow-up to the best-selling ‘The Outrun’.
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Book review: ‘The Journal of a Disappointed Man’ by W.N.P. Barbellion
A deliberately self-inflated masterpiece.
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Book review: ‘Albert & the Whale’ by Philip Hoare
An eclectic biography.
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Book review: ‘Stasiland’ by Anna Funder
Stories from behind the Berlin Wall.
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Book review: ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ by Dylan Thomas
A Christmas classic, wonderfully illustrated by Peter Bailey.
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Book review: ‘Horizon’ by Barry Lopez
Memoir, place and empathy.
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Book review: ‘Speak, Silence’ by Carole Angier
In search of W.G. Sebald.
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Book review: ‘Ariadne’s Thread’ by Philippa Comber
In memory of W.G. Sebald.
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Book review: ‘Heavy Light’ by Horatio Clare
A journey through madness, mania and healing.
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Book review: ‘On Writing’ by Stephen King
A memoir of the craft,
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Book review: ‘Congenial Spirits’ by Virginia Woolf
The selected letters of Virginia Woolf.
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Book review: ‘A Writer’s Day-Book’ by Ronald Blythe
Essays about books and authors.