Autobiography and memoir
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Jeanette Winterson: the last Christmas I spent with my motherShe was an unhappy woman, so this happy time was precious
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The 100 best nonfiction books: No 44 – Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves (1929)Robert Graves’s account of his experiences in the trenches of the first world war is a subversive tour de force
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Inside Vogue: A Diary of My 100th Year review – an editor’s-eye view of fashionAlexandra Shulman’s account of the magazine’s centenary preparations offers a fly-on-the-wall glimpse of a world of runways, parties and deadlines
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Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett review – marvellously unguardedThe latest batch of diaries and occasional pieces ranges from tattoos and Thatcher’s funeral to becoming an ‘old git’
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Magda Szubanski: 'Some of the things my father told me were unbearable'The comic actor explains how writing her memoir Reckoning took her back to some gruelling family history to provide ‘the slowest kind of catharsis’
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Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? review – old age is not for sissiesNicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: bold and honest, hilarious and despairing, this graphic memoir from the New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast carefully chronicles the demise of her parents
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Costa book award 2016 shortlists dominated by female writersRose Tremain, Maggie O’Farrell and Sarah Perry lead contenders for the £30,000 top prize
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Star writer: Carrie Fisher shines brightest in her booksYes she was Princess Leia, but Carrie Fisher’s sharp and witty writing on Hollywood, drug abuse and mental health should also be treasured
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The 100 best nonfiction books: No 43 – My Early Life: A Roving Commission by Winston Churchill (1930)Churchill delights with candid tales of childhood and boy’s own adventures in the Boer war that made him a tabloid hero
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Alexei Sayle: ‘To buy a salad in the 70s you had to go to a kebab shop and chuck the meat away’It’s not just takeaway food that’s moved on for the Liverpool comedian and diarist – now he’s cultivated a taste for roast grouse
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Where memory leads: Saul Friedländer on the Holocaust, history and TrumpWith the US following Europe and Israel in lurching to the right, the Pulitzer-winning author of Nazi Germany and the Jews is ready to turn back to literature
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein – reviewThe Sleater-Kinney riot grrrl delves into her early years and musical motivations with an engaging, unself-pitying intelligence
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Lonely Boy by Steve Jones; Set The Boy Free by Johnny Marr review – setting the record straightContrasting memoirs of life in the Sex Pistols and the Smiths from two charismatic working-class guitarists
Boys in the Trees by Carly Simon review – singer’s witty self-analysis