Tag: memoir
A Ray of Darkness
Pippa Marland finds in this classic female autobiography, endorsed by current international epilepsy neurologists and representing startlingly contemp …
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Painting the Beauty Queens Orange: Women’s Lives in the 70s
Jemma L King, a former Miss Wales finalist, is enchanted to read a prose anthology which explores a quiet revolution of rural entrepreneurship, decima …
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The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes our Lives
The Museum of Portable Sound will bring you into contact with an extensive collection of strange sonic entities. You can listen to an old MiniDisc pla …
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Planet Blues
It’s early winter. I’ve just been for a walk in a field. It’s part of the large estate that surrounds my home – a rented, retired 1830s farmhouse – an …
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The Listening Project
The Listening Project follows the life of a woman called Imogen, whose difficulties arise both from her hearing loss and from family tensions over her …
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The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
In this ambitious and moving work – a hybrid of memoir, polemic and cultural criticism – the US poet and academic explores the ‘melancholia’ of the wo …
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The Amazingly Astonishing Story
Young Lucy would never write a boring book but one that transfixed people with a powerful story. It would deserve a swashbuckling name, such as ‘The A …
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Yew for Two
As the tree-felling season once again approaches, and in Part 2 of his 1960 autobiographical notes (Well laid Hedges and Cider) Jim Pratt moves on fro …
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Dare to Do: Taking on the Planet by Bike and Boat
Dare to Do is a fast-paced, engaging travel memoir by rower and adventurer,Sarah Outen, following her journey as she cycles, kayaks and rows across Eu …
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Jim Neat: The Case of a Young Man Down on His Luck
Mary J Oliver’s father passed away in 1983, but it isn’t until twenty-five years later that a spark ignites inside the author, urging her to find out …
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