Memoir

Many find theology dusty, but McGrath makes a pitch for it as the centre of our world

Yet another teacher memoir abuses more clichés

How my first editor taught me to report “without fear or favour”

Adam LeBor recalls terror and surreal moments of calm in Eastern Europe

Decades later, I remembered my mother’s mental patients

In the 1980s, Britain closed most of its mental hospitals, and some of the patients became my friends

Why is Prince Harry publishing a memoir?

David Smith reminisces on his relationship with John McCain

In his coverage of Northern Ireland in this memoir, Kevin Myers was unflinchingly critical of British ineptitude

The rambling and discursive nature of the writing lends Rupert Everett’s book an enjoyable appeal