Mike Robbins's Blog - Posts Tagged "memoirs"

Rumer Godden was one of the most successful writers of her lifetime. Several of her novels, including Black Narcissus and The River, became successful films. But some of her best work is not fiction at all. Her memoirs of India are drenched with light and colour; and now they have been reissued by an enterprising Indian publisher, Speaking Tiger.

An appreciation of some really beautiful writing:
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Rory Stewart's fast-selling memoir: Brave man's gripping expose of British politics? Or a posh boy's exercise in self-justification?

It's more complicated than that.
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