Recommended Reads

Some recommended reads:
Gore Vidal, Point to Point Navigation (Vintage, 2007) and Palimpsest (Abacus, 1996)

Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs (Picador)
- the writer and broadcaster’s ‘hymn to an Australian childhood’
- published aged 40 which became a bestseller and laid the foundations for successive memoir editions (North Face of Soho, The Blaze of Obscurity)

Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (Penguin)
the actor, writer, director, polymath introduced a new style of memoir which set up a dialogue with himself as debater and protagonist in his own story

David Niven, The Moon’s A Balloon, Bring on the Empty Horses (Corgi)
The quintessential Hollywood Englishman accomplishes excellence in writing that eluded him in acting, telling the tales of his life set against a backdrop of the movies
Andrew Marr, My Trade
The distinguished political commentator on the media and his life as a journalist

Jeremy Isaacs, Never Mind the Moon (Bantam Books)
An account of life as Director-General of the Royal Opera House

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
An elegy for a lost age – the author remembers his youthful friendship with an aristocratic family