For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Autobiography & Memoir & Music

June 1986 Issue

Val Hennessy

No Flies on Bob

Is That It?

By Bob Geldof

Rupert Christiansen

Listen Up

Sound: Stories of Hearing Lost and Found

By Bella Bathurst

November 2016 Issue

Dominic Green

And the Beat Goes On

Born to Run

By Bruce Springsteen

April 2016 Issue

Gulliver Ralston

Beware the Shoe Removers

Beethoven for a Later Age: The Journey of a String Quartet

By Edward Dusinberre

September 2015 Issue

Gulliver Ralston

On the Green Hill

My Life with Wagner

By Christian Thielemann (Translated by Anthea Bell)

Igor Toronyi-Lalic

Minimal Efforts

Words Without Music: A Memoir

By Philip Glass

March 2003 Issue

Christopher Ross

Escape To Iberia

Duende: A Journey In Search of Flamenco

By Jason Webster

October 2008 Issue

Diana Athill

Biographia Literaria

Magic Moments: Life-Changing Encounters with Books, Films, Music…

By John Sutherland

October 2012 Issue

Irving Wardle

They Laughed, They Cried

My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

By John Major

December 2012 Issue

Pete Clark

The Rest is Noise

Who I Am

By Pete Townshend

Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream

By Neil Young

How Music Works

By David Byrne

December 2013 Issue

Philip Hensher

Smith & Moans

Autobiography

By Morrissey