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Autobiography and memoir

November 2024

  • Sigrid Rausing, photographed in her London home looking into the distance looking happy/sad

    Books interview
    Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing: ‘Working while grieving was consoling’

  • Paralysed playwright Hanif Kureishi with the Italian medical team on the day he left rehab to travel back to London.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Shattered By Hanif Kureishi; The Hidden 20%; Begin Again; The Joe Rogan Experience – review

  • Emmanuel Carrère.

    ‘Why do I have an interest in such horrible things?’: Emmanuel Carrère on the Paris terror attacks trial

  • Simon Boas

    A Beginner’s Guide to Dying by Simon Boas review – what makes life worth living?

  • Bookmark this
    Music memoirs, cooking classes and squatting at Kanye’s: the best Australian books out in November

  • Deborah Levy: ‘A writer’s career is choppy – I was 50 when I found success’

  • Audiobook of the week
    On Bullfighting by AL Kennedy audiobook review – dances with death

  • Book of the day
    Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton review – woman meets leveret

October 2024

  • Hanif Kureshi at his home in London.

    Shattered by Hanif Kureishi review – picking up the pieces

  • Jimmy Barnes with the cover of Highways and Byways, out via Harper Collins.

    Australian book reviews
    Highways and Byways by Jimmy Barnes review – compassionate collection from a master yarnsmith

  • Hanif Kureishi With the medical team in Santa Lucia The day he left the rehab to travel back to London

    Book of the day
    Shattered by Hanif Kureishi review – broken, bedbound, but unbowed

  • Oliver Sacks.

    Letters by Oliver Sacks review – valuable insight into a curious mind

  • We All Shine On: John, Yoko & Me by Elliot Mintz review – life as a confidant, fixer… and flunky

  • Observer book of the week
    Patriot by Alexei Navalny review – the man who dared to defy Putin

  • Kim Carr’s memoir is an elegy for older-style Labor politics. Only time will tell if it’s an elegy for the Labor project itself

    Frank Bongiorno

  • ‘Say hello to my little pen’: 14 things we learned from Al Pacino’s memoir

  • Book of the day
    Letters by Oliver Sacks review – science, sex and motorcycles

  • Kevin Rudd had secret agreement with Julia Gillard to hand over power after two terms, new book claims

  • My Beloved Monster by Caleb Carr review – when a cat saves your life

  • Paul Di’Anno obituary

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