Always Unreliable
Brilliant, witty and zestful memoirs from this writer and TV presenter. Full of acute analyses. Originally published 2001. 560 pages in Picador paperback edition. ISBN 978-0330418812
LIVES WELL LIVED? A pick from biography and memoir
Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart by Robert Bernard Martin
This is a multi-award winning biography of the poet who voiced the concerns of the Victorian era. Tennyson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennyson) was Poet Laureate for an astonishing 42 years. To go with this, listen to the BBC Radio 4 ‘In Our Time’ 45 minute episode on Tennyson’s great poem In Memoriam. Available from the link http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0124pnq With
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Speak, Memory
Some autobiographies are enjoyed for the content of their revelations, others for their style and quality of prose in which they are executed. Speak, Memory (1967) by Russian emigre Vladimir Nabokov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov) is certainly the latter. It offers a gorgeous and beguiling account of a pampered Russian childhood broken into fragments of exile and loss by revolutionary