Biography & Memoir

18+ hour, 6+ min ago   (326+ words) Caterina, Doris and the courage Diari ARA In 2007, the Nobel Prize in Literature celebrated the long, prestigious and committed literary career of Doris Lessing, who received the news with the calm of her 88 years, just as she was arriving home…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1791+ words) Even when we grow up and leave, our childhood home does not completely abandon us. The walls may change, the furniture may be replaced, and other people may live in the rooms where we once slept, played, or cried. Yet…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (13+ words) Memoir tells of ‘constant theme’ running through Nelson author’s unconventional life The Press...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (138+ words) Sayaka Murata’s ‘Convenience Store Woman’ is an exquisite, deeply unsettling experience that holds an unflinching mirror up to modern reality. The clinical, detached prose perfectly mirrors the worldview of its protagonist, thirty-six-year-old Keiko Furukura, an anomaly navigating a world obsessed…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (34+ words) THE RAIN IN SPAIN A Brief Respite From the Memoir Writing all day and every day makes for dull company. My partner suggested a few days' distraction... Our favourite hotel, just across the border …...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (522+ words) Age of Awakening Ltd is announcing Out of the Shadows: From Despair to Self-Acceptance and Love, a memoir by author, spiritual medium and Reiki Master Teacher Nikki Laycy that documents personal experiences involving adversity, difficult relationships, addiction, self-discovery and the…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (36+ words) Mistake Most People Make Without Realizing It Read this article for free (Non- Members) Imagine you go to a theater to watch a …...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (429+ words) Jackie Sawatzky has made the 2026 CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist for Radiation Nights: Voice memos to a friend. Sawatzky described Radiation Nights: Voice memos to a friend as "caring for llamas, wrestling cancer." The longlist was selected from nearly 1,900 submissions. A…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1000+ words) As a young girl, Martina Anderson could not but help being caught up in the maelstrom of that hot Derry in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As she writes: ‘By the time I was six, our world had already become a…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (82+ words) Emma Cline’s ‘gut-twisting’ new novel about a former executive’s journey to Zurich for medically assisted suicide. This novel follows the final days of a wealthy executive, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, on his way to Switzerland to be euthanized It is…...