Memoir – Page 2 – Scuffed Granny

A Paper Orchestra by Michael Jamin

An honest, sometimes excruciatingly so, collection of personal essays, which is also incredibly witty and made this reader laugh out loud

The subject of death is discussed with sensitivity by Sue Black, within the context of her work but also as a human being

The fictionalised true story of Lale Sokolov, the tattooist of Auschwitz – a tale of human survival and the will to endure, as well as love

An interesting memoir from childhood to motherhood, relating a tale of tumultuous relationships but also filled with love in its many forms

Beaulieu’s memoir is a brutally honest examination of her family’s history and, in particular, her three brothers and their untimely ends

A memoir, modestly told, of a life varied and, at times, listless and without purpose but with one constant – the writer’s mother

A great book, describing Seidel’s experience teaching English to students in Thailand – in a kindergarten! Cultural, frank and real.

A stimulating, thoughtful memoir about a young girl who enters a controversial church at its height and how this shaped her life and faith

A reflection on a childhood in Africa at the end of empire and how that has inexorably shaped the author into the man he was and is now

The book that begins Maya Angelou’s memoir is full of her experiences at a young age of what is wrong with the world but also, what is right