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Biography books

July 2024

  • Joan Didion in 1977

    The Uptown Local by Cory Leadbeater review – exploding the Joan Didion myth

    A young writing assistant is swept up in the rarified world of the US literary icon in this funny, moving memoir
  • Jack Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier<br>John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier sit together in the sunshine at Kennedy's family home at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, a few months before their wedding.

    Book of the day
    Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan review – a lacerating exposé

    The journalist’s sickening account of how generations of Kennedys casually abused the women around them with impunity is a timely reminder of the dangers posed by damaged men who crave power
  • Joni Mitchell photographed for Vogue in 1968.

    Book of the day
    Travelling by Ann Powers review – a dazzling life of Joni Mitchell

    A sweeping study of Mitchell’s life and work that swerves familiar touchstones to create a vibrant, multi-faceted portrait

June 2024

  • Don Drummond.

    ‘He was greater than Bob Marley’: the shocking tale of Jamaican ska pioneer Don Drummond

  • David Baddiel.

    My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel review – sex, lies and the making of a standup

  • "Le Chouchou" Jacquemus' Fashion Show : Photocall At Chateau De Versailles<br>VERSAILLES, FRANCE - JUNE 26: Victoria Beckham and David Beckham attend the "Le Chouchou" Jacquemus' Fashion Show at Chateau de Versailles on June 26, 2023 in Versailles, France. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Observer book of the week
    The House of Beckham by Tom Bower review – a sex-obsessed hatchet job

  • A goldfish pond with lilies made from the pages of books

    Summer reading: 50 of the best new books to dive into

  • Book of the day
    My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel review – meet the parents

  • House of Beckham by Tom Bower review – a symphony of snide

  • Stinginess, sexts and a Nazi tee: six revelations from The House of Beckham

  • Other lives
    Peter Trollope obituary

  • Observer book of the week
    The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne review – a Hollywood insider with an outsider’s eye

  • Book of the day
    The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne review – Hollywood tales

  • ‘I didn’t discover rationality until I went to England’: Neil Jordan on Tom Cruise, sandwich-boarding and seeing his dad’s ghost

  • Jerrold Northrop Moore obituary

  • Book of the day
    Broken Threads by Mishal Husain review – a spectacular family chronicle of partition

  • Christopher Isherwood Inside Out by Katherine Bucknell review – courage and camp

  • From racist rants to spiritual guru? What we learned from Seinfeld star Michael Richards’s autobiography

  • Book of the day
    Under a Rock by Chris Stein review – sex, squalor and superstardom

  • All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield review – how to make an exhibition of yourself

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