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Biography books

August 2024

  • A young WH Auden on a dock at Cherry Grove on Fire Island, New York.

    Observer book of the week
    The Island: WH Auden and the Last of Englishness review – a deep dive into the poet’s early years

  • Moon Unit and Frank Zappa interviewed onMTV in 1982.

    Earth to Moon by Moon Unit Zappa review – rock and a hard place

  • Audre Lorde at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida in 1983.

    Book of the day
    Survival Is a Promise by Alexis Pauline Gumbs review – a cosmic perspective on Audre Lorde

  • Joan Brady at her home in Oxford, 2015. She translated life into fiction, and turned to thriller writing after a legal battle with her local council.

    Joan Brady obituary

  • Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King by Anupreeta Das review – cancel Bill Gates?

  • Out of the darkness? Aaron Rodgers’ biographer on a tarnished star

  • Charles Blackman was devoted to my mother. Their love story needs to be told

    Christabel Blackman

  • Home Is Where We Start by Susanna Crossman review – growing up in a world without rules

  • Observer book of the week
    The Art of Power by Nancy Pelosi review – politics with principles

  • ‘A spy in the land of the privileged’: why Eve Babitz’s cult Hollywood memoir still matters 50 years on

  • Tchaikovsky was not tragic but had a ‘Monty Python’ sense of humour, says biographer

  • Audiobook of the week
    The Piano Player of Budapest by Roxanne de Bastion audiobook review – music and survival

  • Britney Spears memoir The Woman in Me headed to the big screen

  • Let’s Be Honest by Jess Phillips review – the case for democracy

July 2024

  • TOPSHOT-ASIAD-2022-2023-HANGZHOU-OPENING<br>TOPSHOT - Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (C) and his wife Asma al-Assad (L) attend the opening ceremony of the 2022 Asian Games at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province on September 23, 2023. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) (Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)

    All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons and Politicians by Phil Elwood review – a spin doctor for despots

  • man in a suit and woman in red jacket on a stage

    Melania Trump to tell her story in memoir scheduled for this fall

  • Thom Gunn, 1970.

    Thom Gunn by Michael Nott review – sex, drugs and San Francisco

  • Paul Foot

    Book of the day
    Paul Foot: A Life in Politics by Margaret Renn review – revolutionary intellect or posh trot?

  • ‘A life too immense for only one book’: Cher announces two-part memoir

  • Book of the day
    Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott review – the poet laureate of Haight-Ashbury

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