The Gatekeeper Kate Fall HQ £16.99 Rating: Discretion may be the better part of valour, but it is the worst part of a memoir. Kate Fall was David Cameron’s deputy chief of staff for 11 years, first in opposition and then in Government. Her desk was positioned outside Cameron’s door so she became known as … Read more
Stephen King warns that a book publisher’s decision on Friday to cancel a planned memoir by Woody Allen is censorship. ‘The Hachette decision to drop the Woody Allen book makes me very uneasy,’ the bestselling author tweeted on Friday. ‘It’s not him; I don’t give a damn about Mr. Allen. ‘It’s who gets muzzled next … Read more
The late Deborah Orr’s excellent memoir, Motherwell, charts her vexed relationship with her parents in impassioned yet tender prose By Anthony Quinn Published: 22:02 GMT, 25 January 2020 | Updated: 16:11 GMT, 26 January 2020 Motherwell Deborah Orr … Read more
Woody Allen will release his memoir next month and the book has been described as a ‘comprehensive account of his life, both personal and professional’. A book from the 84-year-old movie director has been rumored for years and was once thought unpublishable in the #MeToo era. But Apropos of Nothing will be released April 7, … Read more
MEMOIR THE SHAPELESS UNEASE: A YEAR OF NOT SLEEPING by Samantha Harvey (Cape £12.99, 192 pp) There can be few people for whom Samantha Harvey’s dazzling, dizzying trip through the nightmare world of the sleepless will be completely foreign. Who among us hasn’t lain awake at night counting backwards from one thousand? I can sometimes … Read more
Alice Vincent presents a beguiling bouquet in Rootbound: Rewilding A Life, her hopeful memoir of self-discovery and horticulture By Hephzibah Anderson Published: 22:01 GMT, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 29 February 2020 Rootbound: Rewilding A Life Alice Vincent … Read more
Maye Musk, above, is a model, nutritionist, and the mother of three successful entrepreneurs: Elon, Kimbal and Tosca. In her new memoir, A Woman Makes a Plan, she details her childhood in South Africa, her modeling and nutrition career, and what it took to raise three kids on her own Raising one billionaire and two … Read more