Secondhand Literary Biography Books

Doris Lessing's long-awaited follow-up to the first part of her autobiography, the hugely successful Under My Skin. In Walking in the Shade we move into the dazzling heyday of Lessing's...

Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It is largely political (while remaining personal). It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the...