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‘Overwhelmed’ is a map of the stresses – individual, historical, biological and societal – that have ripped working mothers’ leisure to shreds, and a quest for how it might be possible for them to put the pieces back together.
Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot’s ‘Middlemarch’, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. The novel, which Virginia Woolf famously described as ‘one of the few English novels written for grown-up people’, offered Mead something that modern life and literature did not. In this wise and revealing work of biography, reporting, and memoir, Rebecca Mead leads us into the life that the book made for her, as well as the many lives the novel has led since it was written.
‘Little Failure’ is a candid and deeply poignant story of a Soviet family’s trials and tribulations, and of their escape in 1979 to theconsumerist promised land of the USA. It is also an exceptionally funny account of the author’s transformation from asthmatic toddler in Red Square to 40-something Manhattanite with a receding hairline and a memoir to write.
A single-volume edition of two hugely charming and funny memoirs of family life – ‘Notes to my Mother-in-Law’ and ‘How Many Camels Are There in Holland?’ – by the inimitable Phyllida Law.
This is the story of two incredible women: Alan Johnson’s mother, Lily, who battled against poor health, poverty, domestic violence and loneliness to try to ensure a better future for her children; and his sister, Linda, who had to assume an enormous amount of responsibility to protect her family.
This is the extraordinary memoir of a mother’s love, commitment, and nurturing, which allowed her son, originally diagnosed with autism, to flourish into a universally recognised genius – and how any parent can help their child find their spark.
‘The Last Asylum’ begins with Barbara Taylor’s visit to the innocuously named Princess Park Manor in Friern Barnet, North London – a picture of luxury and repose. But this is the former site of one of England’s most infamous lunatic asylums, the Middlesex County Pauper Lunatic Aslyum at Colney Hatch. At its peak this asylum housed nearly 3,000 patients – among them, in the 1980s, Barbara Taylor herself. This is her powerful account of her battle with mental illness, set inside the wider story of the end of the UK asylum system.
Sally Magnusson cared with her two sisters for her mother, Mamie, during her long struggle with dementia, until her death in 2012. This moving and honest account of losing a loved one day by day to an insidious disease is both deeply personal and a challenging call to arms.
20 years have now passed since Rwanda erupted into a 100 day orgy of killing, leaving close to a million people dead. On an assignment for BBC’s Newsnight, David Belton, like others, has never come to terms with the horrors he witnessed. He retraces his steps into St Andre Church where he first encountered piles of dead families, and regroups with genocide survivor Jean-Pierre, who has received a letter asking for forgiveness from the man who cut up his father with a machete. Through the eyes of Jean-Pierre and his wife Odette, we revisit the bloody days of the massacre.
‘In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts’. Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in ‘Winter Journal’, Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within, through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world. From his baby’s-eye view of the man in the moon to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine to his dawning awareness of the injustices of American life, ‘Report from the Interior’ charts Auster’s moral, political and intellectual journey as he inches his way toward adulthood through the post-war fifties and into the turbulent 1960s.
In this memoir, Anthony Russell takes us inside his childhood growing up at Leeds Castle, with luxury and opulence few can imagine, and how he found his way in a changing society.
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