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The best biographies and memoirs of 2024

Salman Rushdie’s account of his near-fatal stabbing, a 360-degree view of Queen Elizabeth II and Al Pacino’s rags to riches career are among this year’s most compelling personal histories

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‘I wanted the 17-hour trip to go slower, not faster’: readers’ favourite European journeys

The excitement of the voyage itself grabbed our tipsters as they delighted in riding trains, ferries and buses across Europe to as far afield as Norway and Turkey

The Guardian - UK

Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux review – how Eric Blair became George Orwell

The evils of empire are brought to life in this fascinating imagining of Orwell’s days as a colonial policeman, but the perspective of Burmese people is sidelined

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Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux review – George Orwell’s Burmese days vibrantly brought to life

The US writer’s fictionalised portrait of the young Eric Blair’s time with the imperial police in Burma is a keenly felt and vividly researched account of colonial bigotry and power

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Louis Theroux: ‘It’s not rude to ask a question. It’s rude to expect an answer’

His signature mix of charm and cheek has made him one of the best interviewers in the game. Will he take it on the chin when the tables are turned?

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Friday essay: a poet, a disciplinarian, an illiterate grandfather – writers reflect on the teachers who shaped them

What does a writer’s education look like? Is it access to books, regular letter-writing, difficulty in childhood (war, illness, a brutal boarding school)? What talent or disposition primes the young writer for their training? In the push and pull of nature versus nurture, a key element is the right teacher,…

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