...Twain. Kerry Shale reads from Mark Twain's autobiography
Autobiography of Mark Twain homepage
Hugh Bonneville reads from Philip Larkin's letters to Monica Jones
Philip Larkin - Letters to Monica homepage
The second volume of the autobiography of actor and author Stephen Fry.
Stephen Fry - The Fry Chronicles homepage
Julian Rhind-Tutt reads from Donald Sturrock's biography of Roald Dahl
Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl homepage
Sam Dale reads from the second volume of former New Labour minister Chris Mullin's diaries
Chris Mullin - Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005-2010 homepage
Sian Thomas reads from Elena Gorokhova's memoir of growing up behind the Iron Curtain
Elena Gorokhova - A Mountain of Crumbs homepage
Stuart Kelly examines the powerful images of Scotland created by Sir Walter Scott
Stuart Kelly - Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation homepage
Zaiba Malik's memoir of growing up in the 70s and 80s, torn between 'British' and 'Muslim'
We are a Muslim, Please homepage
Colin Stinton reads Lynn Schooler's memoir about his journey in the Alaskan wilderness
Lynn Schooler - Walking Home homepage
Jack Klaff reads from Jake Adelstein's memoir about reporting on organised crime in Tokyo
Jake Adelstein - Tokyo Vice homepage
Poet Jackie Kay traces her biological parents
Jackie Kay - Red Dust Road homepage
Hampton Sides' new account of the murder of Martin Luther King and the hunt for his killer
Hampton Sides - Hellhound on His Trail homepage
Michael Maloney reads from Jenny Uglow's account of the restoration of Charles II in 1660.
Jenny Uglow - A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration homepage
Nigel Hastings reads from author Luke Jennings's account of a lifetime of fishing
Blood Knots homepage
Barrister Alex McBride's behind-the-scenes account of Britain's criminal justice system
Defending the Guilty homepage
Jason Butler Harner reads from Michael Chabon's memoir
Michael Chabon - Manhood for Amateurs homepage
Jack Klaff reads from Douglas Rogers's account of life in a Zimbabwean tourist lodge
Douglas Rogers - The Last Resort homepage
Stephen Boxer reads from Graham Robb's new book about Paris and its famous dwellers
Graham Robb - Parisians homepage
Lindsay Duncan reads from Hilary Spurling's biography of the American writer Pearl Buck
Hilary Spurling - Burying the Bones homepage
Sinead Cusack reads Frances Stonor Saunders's account of troubled life of Violet Gibson
FS Saunders - The Woman Who Shot Mussolini homepage
Adam Zamoyski's portrait of the life of the composer Frederic Chopin
Chopin: Prince of the Romantics homepage
Max Hastings recalls the marriage of his Fleet Street parents
Max Hastings - Did You Really Shoot the Television? homepage
Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New York in the late 1960s and 1970s
Patti Smith - Just Kids homepage
Antonia Fraser reads from her diary of her life with Harold Pinter
Must You Go? homepage
Dermot Crowley reads from the memoir by traditional Irish matchmaker Willie Daly
Willie Daly - The Last Matchmaker homepage
Mark Rylance and Julius D'Silva read from a new edition of Van Gogh's correspondence
Vincent van Gogh - The Letters homepage
A heartfelt musing by Roy Mayall on the past, present and future role of the Postie
Dear Granny Smith homepage
Kenneth Cranham reads from Andrew McConnell Stott's biography of the clown Joseph Grimaldi
The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi homepage
Karl Sabbagh book explores the surprising science behind seemingly trivial assumptions
The Hair of the Dog and Other Scientific Surprises homepage
Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and intimate story of Britain in the 1950s
David Kynaston - Family Britain homepage
