People
Reviews of biographies, autobiographies, correspondence, memoirs, and other ‘life writing’.
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Book review: ‘Coda’ by Simon Gray
Vol. 4 of ‘The Smoking Diaries’.
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Book review: ‘The Last Cigarette’ by Simon Gray
Vol. 3 of ‘The Smoking Diaries’.
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Book review: ‘The Year of the Jouncer’ by Simon Gray
Vol. 2 of ‘The Smoking Diaries’.
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Book review: ‘The Smoking Diaries’ by Simon Gray
Vol. 1 of playwright Simon Gray’s amusing and meandering reminiscences.
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Book review: ‘Renegade’ by Mark E. Smith
The lives and tales of Mark E. Smith.
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Book review: ‘The Rings of Saturn’ by W.G. Sebald
An unclassifiable masterpiece.
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Book review: ‘Vertigo’ by W.G. Sebald
File under ‘Sebaldian’.
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Book review: ‘The Emigrants’ by W.G. Sebald
File under ‘Sebaldian’.
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Book review: ‘The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century’ by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Looking at the world through the eyes of a 17th-century polymath.
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Book review: ‘Something of His Art’ by Horatio Clare
Walking to Lübeck with J.S. Bach.
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Book review: ‘Kilvert’s Diary’ by Francis Kilvert
The diary of a Victorian country curate.
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Book review: ‘A Carnival of Losses’ by Donald Hall
Notes nearing ninety.