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Summer Reads: Biography and Essays

Each week we’re going to bring you some suggestions for your summer reading, taking a different category each time. This week Bob Johnstone, of The Gutter Bookshop, joined Sean with his recommendations for biography and essay. He recommended...

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14.27 3 Aug 2022


Summer Reads: Biography and Essays


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Each week we’re going to bring you some suggestions for your summer reading, taking a different category each time. This week Bob Johnstone, of The Gutter Bookshop, joined Sean with his recommendations for biography and essay. He recommended Rogues:True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe,I Don't Want to Talk About Home by Suad Aldarra,All Down Darkness Wide : A Memoir by Seán Hewitt,Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner,And Away... by Bob Mortimer,The Last Days of Roger Federer And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer,Free : Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi,Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel,All About Me! : My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks,The Troubles with Us : One Belfast Girl on Boys and Bombs and Finding Her Way by Alix O'Neill.


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