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Bad Blood
Lorna Sage’s description of growing up in a family riddled with resentments and mutual loathing won the Whitbread Biography award in 2000, just a f... See details
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The Way of All Flesh
Butler’s semi-autobiographical satirical blast against Victorian family values was written between 1873 and 1884, but was only published in 1903, a... See details
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Giving Up the Ghost
Hilary Mantel’s autobiography of her early life contains, amongst many other things, a brilliant and painful description of marital breakdown as se... See details
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Mother Country
Both a detective story and a traditional memoir, Mother Country is full of thrilling revelations, comic confusion and tender memories. It is... See details
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Statues without Shadows
Anna Swan's gripping family memoir tells the story of her talented parents with wit, candour and delicacy. Poorly suited to one another, they were ... See details
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Family Romance: A Memoir
Described by Paul Theroux as ‘one of the best family histories I've read’, John Lanchester's Family Romance is a beautifully written explora... See details
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Our Fathers
As Hugh Bawn lies dying his grandson Jamie comes to watch over him, and narrates the history of their family, a history bound up with nationality, ... See details
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Father and Son
Edmund Gosse’s account of his struggle to escape the loving but constricting influence of his father is one of the classics of family writing in En... See details
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The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story
Who were the Eitingons, and what role did they play in the secret dramas of the 20th century? Leonid Eitingon was a Russian spymaster who recruited... See details