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I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir by Jan Grue (Norway)

A thought-provoking, Barbellion Prize-longlisted memoir on living with disability by Norwegian academic Jan Grue

Review of Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi (Albania)

Much-lauded memoir of growing up in a secretive and rapidly changing Albania in the 1980 and 1990s

Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother’s Letter to her Son by Homeira Qaderi (Afghanistan)

A gripping memoir on growing up as a teenage girl under Taliban rule

I Will Never See the World Again by Ahmet Altan (Turkey)

Gripping and thought-provoking prison memoir

Istanbul: Memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)

A fascinating reflection on the childhood of a Nobel-prize winning author and on the cultural history of Istanbul

How to Feed a Dictator by Witold Szablowski (Poland)

An intriguing mix of reportage, memoir, political history and recipe book as Witold Szabłowski interviews the former chefs to a handful of murderous dictators.

Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood (USA): Review no 161

#20booksofsummer, book 4 Priestdaddy is an acclaimed memoir by US writer Patricia Lockwood, who is currently on the Women’s Prize shortlist for her first novel, No-one Is Talking About This, and whose tweets come imbued with the aura of legend. This, her first book, was published in 2017, and has a particularly random cover in …

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