Tag: memoir
Live Interview Recording from Hay Festival
‘The experience of non-human neighbours… the animate world… of which we’re part… and engaging with other living creatures, can just put your own …
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In so much of our attitudes to wilderness… we focus on these grand landscapes, and I’m trying to do something a bit different…
Read moreThe Cartoonist: Crossing Paths with Jean Moulin
At one point in the torture, when Moulin could no longer speak, Barbie demanded a diagram of The Resistance. Moulin motioned for a pen and paper. Barb …
Read moreAn Indigo Summer
The love and respect that Orrell expresses for her mother is wonderful to read. The author celebrates women like her mother who balance family life wi …
Read moreDelicacy: A Memoir about Cake and Death
[Katy Wix’s] positivity is convincing because it is thoroughly rooted in experience. Her writing in Delicacy is not painful or raw or brutal. It is ca …
Read moreVoyager: Constellations of Memory
Elaine Margolin is startled by this author’s ability to meld past and present, the personal and the political, but above all her concern with comprehe …
Read moreAnd… A Memoir of My Mother: Negotiating Personal and Racial Identity in Wales
For Amy McCauley, this memoir about colonialism’s violence and its cultural and linguistic erasure, conveys the fragmentation caused by childhood trau …
Read moreA Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
Elaine Margolin admires the acceptance of uncertainty that is at the heart of this travel-based memoir tracing a journey around Skagen Odde peninsula …
Read moreA Ray of Darkness
Pippa Marland finds in this classic female autobiography, endorsed by current international epilepsy neurologists and representing startlingly contemp …
Read morePainting 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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