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Biography books

July 2024

  • On the set of Craig's Wife (1936), left to right: film editor Viola Lawrence, star Rosalind Russell, screenwriter McCall and director Dorothy Arzner.

    Credit at last for female screenwriter airbrushed from Hollywood history

    Despite her activism during the golden age of cinema, Mary C McCall Jr was all but forgotten. Now a new book is about to set the record straight
  • 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

    Ever since I was 14, this man had blighted both our lives. But my mum turned out to be stronger and more resourceful than I had ever imagined

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

    • Book of the day
      Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan review – a lacerating exposé

    • Book of the day
      Travelling by Ann Powers review – a dazzling life of Joni Mitchell

June 2024

  • Don Drummond.

    ‘He was greater than Bob Marley’: the shocking tale of Jamaican ska pioneer Don Drummond

  • David Baddiel.

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

  • "Le Chouchou" Jacquemus' Fashion Show : Photocall At Chateau De Versailles<br>VERSAILLES, FRANCE - JUNE 26: Victoria Beckham and David Beckham attend the "Le Chouchou" Jacquemus' Fashion Show at Chateau de Versailles on June 26, 2023 in Versailles, France. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Observer book of the week
    The House of Beckham by Tom Bower review – a sex-obsessed hatchet job

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

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

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

  • House of Beckham by Tom Bower review – a symphony of snide

  • Stinginess, sexts and a Nazi tee: six revelations from The House of Beckham

  • Other lives
    Peter Trollope obituary

  • Observer book of the week
    The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne review – a Hollywood insider with an outsider’s eye

  • Book of the day
    The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne review – Hollywood tales

  • ‘I didn’t discover rationality until I went to England’: Neil Jordan on Tom Cruise, sandwich-boarding and seeing his dad’s ghost

  • Jerrold Northrop Moore obituary

  • Book of the day
    Broken Threads by Mishal Husain review – a spectacular family chronicle of partition

  • Christopher Isherwood Inside Out by Katherine Bucknell review – courage and camp

  • From racist rants to spiritual guru? What we learned from Seinfeld star Michael Richards’s autobiography

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