Jon Toogood wouldn’t change a thing, even the parts that sucked
The Shihad front man is about to go on tour… book tour. “Put your clock back for the…
Hannah Murray Finds Solace As a Writer in New Memoir
“There was a core mystery for me at the heart of this experience — was it magic, or…
‘Consider me bitten’: Stakes by Noelle McCarthy, reviewed
Claire Mabey finds herself smitten with Stakes, the follow up to Noelle McCarthy’s award-winning first memoir Grand. You…
Her hit divorce memoir may not have told the whole story. Maybe it doesn’t matter
Questions have arisen about Belle Burden’s best-selling work, but female readers are defending it anyway. All the best…
10 Dark Stories From Hayden Panettiere’s Revealing Memoir
Photo: Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images For a brief period in the mid-aughts, Hayden Panettiere was omnipresent. She…
Harry and Meghan to produce Afghan war film in their hit-and-miss Netflix deal
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Melanoma: Rotorua’s Elizabeth Pilaar writes book about son Michael’s death
Michael was diagnosed with melanoma at age 17 after his mother raised concerns about a mole on his…
Barry Soper memoir: Veteran political journalist calls Dame Jacinda Ardern an ‘imposter’
Newstalk ZB’s Heather du Plessis Allan, his girlfriend at the time and now his wife, was working in…
Lena Dunham’s memoir about people-pleasing sure airs a lot of grievances
The Girls star offers gruesome details of every relationship that’s gone sour in her quest “to make others…
‘Calamities and care’: Elizabeth Knox’s profoundly moving memoir, reviewed
Claire Mabey reviews Night, Ma, the astonishingly honest new memoir from one of New Zealand’s most evocative and…
From Field to Front: Jude Dobson closes a decade of war stories
She initially became a nurse, got sidetracked by auditioning for the TV quiz show Sale of the Century…
Writer Elizabeth Knox confronts family abuse in memoir Night, Ma
But for her, the book is about achieving specific goals and reaching out to others. “I set out…