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Biography books

May 2025

  • Kate Potter

    I always wondered what had happened to my missing brother. Could I ever forgive my father for driving him away?

  • Richard Flanagan.

    Audiobook of the week
    Question 7 by Richard Flanagan audiobook review – a bold memoir of life and near-death

April 2025

  • Joan Didion.

    Notes to John by Joan Didion review – an invasion of privacy

  • San Jose, USA. 18th Mar, 2025. Jensen Huang, head of the chip company Nvidia, holds the company's graphics cards at the developer conference GTC. (NEW - for technical reasons) Credit: Andrej Sokolow/dpa/Alamy Live News<br>3A49XE1 San Jose, USA. 18th Mar, 2025. Jensen Huang, head of the chip company Nvidia, holds the company's graphics cards at the developer conference GTC. (NEW - for technical reasons) Credit: Andrej Sokolow/dpa/Alamy Live News

    The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World’s Most Coveted microchip – review

  • Joan Didion with her daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne, and husband John Gregory Dunne.

    ‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?

  • Monk's House in Rodmell, East Sussex, Virginia Woolf's country home and retreat.

    In the Rhododendrons by Heather Christle review – back to the mother land

  • Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life by Frances Ryan review – countering the stereotypes

  • Observer book of the week
    Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman review – the radical lord of light entertainment

  • Book of the day
    The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – shocking tales from 1960s psychiatry

  • Book of the day
    Love and Fury: The Extraordinary Life, Death and Legacy of Joe Meek by Darryl W Bullock – review

  • Yoko by David Sheff review – a queasily one-sided defence

March 2025

  • Amanda Meade

    Weekly Beast
    A mug’s game: Murdoch press’s anti-Labor budget coverage foreshadows election attacks to come

    Amanda Meade
  • Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot at the beach in 1950 film La Vie Commence Demain (Life Begins Tomorrow).

    Book of the day
    Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso by Sue Roe review – artist as lothario

  • Amanda Knox photographed in February this year. She is pictured sitting cross-legged with a cat in her lap in front of a bookcase

    ‘I call us the Sisterhood of Ill Repute’: Amanda Knox on bonding with Monica Lewinsky and Lorena Bobbitt

  • John Lennon and Paul McCartney (right) by the Mersey in Liverpool, 1963.

    John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie review – a Beatles bromance

  • Did my Jewish great-grandfather make chemical weapons for the Nazis? Author Joe Dunthorne on a dark legacy

  • ‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light

  • Book of the day
    The Leopard in My House by Mark Steel review – finding the funny side of living with cancer

February 2025

  • Boris and Carrie Johnson leaving No 10 after his resignation in 2022.

    Ungovernable by Simon Hart review – House of ill repute

  • ‘It was a huge buzz’ … McCartney during the Wings Over the World tour, Philadelphia, 1976

    ‘Madcap adventures’: Paul McCartney co-authors book about his time in Wings

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