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Memoir

Foreign Fruit by Katie Goh review – big ideas, lightly handled
Books

Foreign Fruit by Katie Goh review – big ideas, lightly handled

Foreign Fruit is a deeply thoughtful, funny and moving treatise on identity and the myriad factors that influence it
Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs and The Salt Path author Raynor Winn on homelessness and human spirit
Film

Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs and The Salt Path author Raynor Winn on homelessness and human spirit

Cher: The Memoir, Part One review – pop icon turns back time
Books

Cher: The Memoir, Part One review – pop icon turns back time

Sonny Boy by Al Pacino review – a great actor's final word
Books

Sonny Boy by Al Pacino review – a great actor's final word

'Alcohol felt like home to us': A mother and daughter's story of alcoholism – and how they overcame it
Alcoholism

'Alcohol felt like home to us': A mother and daughter's story of alcoholism – and how they overcame it

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This is the moment I discovered I was born a refugee
Refugees

This is the moment I discovered I was born a refugee

The Light Room by Kate Zambreno review – a staggering breadth of knowledge
Books

The Light Room by Kate Zambreno review – a staggering breadth of knowledge

Heaven by Emerson Whitney review – a memoir with fearsome grace
Books

Heaven by Emerson Whitney review – a memoir with fearsome grace

Top 5 books about women and water, chosen by The Tidal Year author Freya Bromley
Women and water
Books

Top 5 books about women and water, chosen by The Tidal Year author Freya Bromley

Freaks Out! by Luke Haines review – a righteous celebration of gloriously weird rock 'n' rollers
Books

Freaks Out! by Luke Haines review – a righteous celebration of gloriously weird rock 'n' rollers

Namesake by NS Nuseibeh review – personal insight informed by Islamic myth and culture
Books

Namesake by NS Nuseibeh review – personal insight informed by Islamic myth and culture

How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair review – a compelling account of the Rastafari movement
Books

How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair review – a compelling account of the Rastafari movement

The Woman in Me review – Britney Spears finally sets the record straight
Britney Spears - The Woman In Me
Books

The Woman in Me review – Britney Spears finally sets the record straight

Karma by Boy George review – Culture Club singer settles scores
Books

Karma by Boy George review – Culture Club singer settles scores

Autumn reads: the best new books to light up the longer nights
Illustration of the word 'autumn'
Autumn reads

Autumn reads: the best new books to light up the longer nights

How one girl secretly defied Afghanistan's education ban
An illustration depicting Sola Mahfouz, who defied Afghanistan's education ban
Memoir

How one girl secretly defied Afghanistan's education ban

Ootlin: A Memoir by Jenni Fagan review: Harrowing truths about the care system
Ootlin by Jenni Fagan
Review

Ootlin: A Memoir by Jenni Fagan review: Harrowing truths about the care system

A Flat Place by Noreen Masud review: Finding a sense of self in landscapes
nature

A Flat Place by Noreen Masud review: Finding a sense of self in landscapes

Charlene White: How judging the British Book Awards rekindled my passion for reading
Assorted book covers
British Book Awards

Charlene White: How judging the British Book Awards rekindled my passion for reading

Top 5 food memoirs, chosen by Sumayya Usmani
A chopping board with vegetables, herbs and a knife
recommended

Top 5 food memoirs, chosen by Sumayya Usmani

Voyager by Nona Fernandez review: Memory as an act of rebellion
Voyager: Constellations of Memory by Nona Fernandez
memoir

Voyager by Nona Fernandez review: Memory as an act of rebellion

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Mogwai guitarist Stuart Braithwaite: 'Music can make dreams come true'
Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth by Stuart Braithwaite is out now
Books

Mogwai guitarist Stuart Braithwaite: 'Music can make dreams come true'

What Strange Paradise review: A nine-year-old refugee's 'upturned fairytale'
A refugee boat
Book reviews

What Strange Paradise review: A nine-year-old refugee's 'upturned fairytale'

Iain Sinclair on The Gold Machine: Drunken priests and fever dreams
Illustration of Peru
Books

Iain Sinclair on The Gold Machine: Drunken priests and fever dreams

Solito by Javier Zamora review: A beguiling memoir, effortlessly evocative of time and place
Mexican border
Book reviews

Solito by Javier Zamora review: A beguiling memoir, effortlessly evocative of time and place

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