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Reviews of biographies, autobiographies, correspondence, memoirs, and other ‘life writing’.
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Book review: ‘Spike Island’ by Philip Hoare
The memory of a military hospital.
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Book review: ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain’ by Clive James
Collected writings on Philip Larkin.
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Book review: ‘The Faraway Nearby’ by Rebecca Solnit
A curiously compelling mix of memoir and anti-memoir.
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Book review: ‘The Writing Life’ by Annie Dillard
Definitely not a writing guide.
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Book review: ‘Just Kids’ by Patti Smith
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe and their lives together.
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Book review: ‘Nature Cure’ by Richard Mabey
Nature writer recovers from depression by reconnecting with nature.
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Book review: ‘Turning the Boat for Home’ by Richard Mabey
A life writing about nature.
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Book review: ‘Year of the Monkey’ by Patti Smith
Further quirky memoirs.
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Book review: ‘The Light in the Dark’ by Horatio Clare
A winter journal.
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Book review: ‘Sightlines’ by Kathleen Jamie
A second volume of superb ‘nature writing’.
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Book review: ‘Findings’ by Kathleen Jamie
Nature writing from the other side of the fence.
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Book review: ‘Round About Town’ by Kevin Boniface
Diary of a postman.