Category: Memoir

Retrieving a lost life from the historical black box

13/11/2023

WIFEDOM: MRS ORWELL'S INVISIBLE LIFE
By Anna Funder

The result of author Anna Funder’s plunge into the historical “black box” of George Orwell's wife Eileen O'Shaughnessy is a biography quite unlike any I’ve ever read.

Published by Penguin, July 2023 | Fiction, Memoir, Australian Author

Transgender influencer's turbulent adolescence laid bare

2/8/2021

WHAT IT FEELS LIKE FOR A GIRL
by Paris Lees

It’s hard to imagine one of the UK’s most influential transgender women, was a rent boy aged 13, suffered regular school yard beatings and spent time in prison for robbery. Yet, it's all laid bare in the prominent journalist's memoir, What it feels like for a girl.

Published by Penguin, May 2021 | Memoir, Non-fiction

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