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Autobiography and memoir

July 2024

  • Lindsay Nicholson in her canalside garden in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.

    Magazine guru Lindsay Nicholson’s life of turmoil: ‘I could see this world I’d created was crumbling’

  • The cast of The Years photographed for the Observer New Review: Deborah Findlay, Anjli Mohindra, Romola Garai, Gina McKee and Harmony Rose-Bremner.

    ‘Each time I read one of her books, I wanted to read more’: five actors on bringing Annie Ernaux’s memoir to the stage

  • A handcuffed Brittney Griner is escorted from court near Moscow by Russian guards on 4 August 2022.

    Observer book of the week
    Coming Home by Brittney Griner review – from hoop dreams to a living hell

  • Naomi Westerman, writer and playwrite photographed near her home in Woolwich, SE London

    When my mother died, I thought her violent boyfriend had won. But she had secretly taken back control

  • ‘Who am I without him?’: what I learned about grief from reading other women’s diaries

  • Audiobook of the week
    Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench review – a class act

  • The Uptown Local by Cory Leadbeater review – exploding the Joan Didion myth

  • In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger review – from here to eternity

  • I Was There by Alan Edwards review – the rock gods’ right-hand man

  • In brief: CS Lewis’s Oxford; True Love; Loosely Based on a Made-Up Story – review

  • Bookmark this
    ‘Radical’, ‘a headrush’, ‘insanely clever’: the best Australian books out in July

  • Book of the day
    All the Worst Humans by Phil Elwood review – confessions of a cleanup man

June 2024

  • The harbour in Voe, North Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, UK<br>2T0PA45 The harbour in Voe, North Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, UK

    In brief: Storm Pegs; Beautiful Days; A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages – review

  • Rachel Stevens, photographed in London for G2, June 2024

    ‘I was nervous. Worried. Insecure. I just didn’t feel safe’: Rachel Stevens on her life in S Club 7

  • David Baddiel.

    My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel review – sex, lies and the making of a standup

  • A goldfish pond with lilies made from the pages of books

    Summer reading: 50 of the best new books to dive into

  • Your holiday reading list: chosen by Zadie Smith, David Nicholls and more

  • From the Guardian archive
    Henri Charrière: Papillon de Pigalle – archive, 1969

  • The Language of War by Oleksandr Mykhed review – ‘Eat, kill, grief, repeat’ reflections from Ukraine

  • Book of the day
    My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel review – meet the parents

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