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Book Review: Inside Story by Martin Amis (England)

Autobiographical novel by Martin Amis

Unapologetic and raw short account of the fall-out from the break up of a relationship

A gripping memoir of living through the first Liberian civil conflict, and flight to the USA

Part memoir, part travelogue, an interesting account of making a new life in Slovenia

Classic memoir and travelogue dealing with the author’s year-long jaunt on a finding herself mission. And why not!

A philosophical memoir by Gillian Rose dealing, in part, with her experience of living with cancer

A short confessional novel by the Nobel Prize winning writer

An engaging and very humorous account of being brought up in Malaysia before moving to the UK as a young adult

A memoir of life as a disabled woman in a society that remains structurally ableist and sexist

Classic memoir of life in the first half of the 20th century Vienna