Autobiography

It’s Only A Movie - An Evening with Mark Kermode launches his autobiography

1 Feb 2010

The Exorcist-obsessed, leather-clad and utterly iconic film critic is in (both) town(s) this fortnight, to discuss his autobiography, It’s Only A Movie, probably in a sardonic and slightly sarcastic fashion. Little-known Kermode fact: he plays double…

Duff McKagan to reveal all about addiction battle

Music Gossip

5 May 2011

Duff McKagan's autobiography offers a "cross section" view of his life. The former Guns 'N Roses bassist - who now performs with rock bands Velvet Revolver and Loaded - admitted while he isn't even sure whether the tome 'It's So Easy and Other Lies…

Mark Everett interview

Family plot

31 Jan 2008

When Mark Oliver Everett was nine years old and home alone, a plane crashed in his neighbourhood. Stumbling outside, he wandered through the carnage of burning wreckage and body parts before returning to his house. ‘Just another day in my weird life,…

Helen Mirren - In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures

Memoir

4 Oct 2007

‘I have a blissfully forgetful brain,’ Helen Mirren informs us in the opening paragraph of her autobiography, which hardly bodes well for a book which demands total recall. But Mirren has dredged the past up from somewhere, or someone, because In the…

Heidi Montag writing autobiography

Celebrity Gossip

30 Oct 2011

Heidi Montag is writing an autobiography. The onetime 'Hills' star - who recently announced she and her husband Spencer Pratt are broke - is set to pen her memoirs and reveal shocking details about her marriage to her former co-star and why her…

Dizzee Rascal wants to write autobiography

Music Gossip

23 May 2011

Dizzee Rascal is planning a "no holds barred" autobiography. The 26-year-old rapper has already released four albums and set up his own record label and Dizzee admits he would love to share his life story about how he grew up on a London council…

Ian Green - Fuzz to Folk

Autobiography from founder of folk record label Greentrax

19 Jan 2011

(Luath) The life of Ian Green is certainly a packed one. Speedway champ, Korean veteran, grower of prize-winning chrysanthemums, police inspector and folk music entrepreneur are among the entries on his CV, but whether he can add ‘accomplished writer…

James Corden to pen autobiography

TV Gossip

21 Dec 2010

James Corden is set to write an autobiography. The 32-year-old 'Gavin and Stacey' star - who is expecting his first child next year - has signed a contract reportedly worth over £1 million with publishers Random House to pen a tell-all book about his…

Jah Wobble

Jon Wardle’s memoir about his life as Jah Wobble has given him a taste for writing.

12 Aug 2010

‘I was encouraged to write a book by the people in my band,’ says John Wardle, the English musician and singer who goes by the name Jah Wobble on his tour posters. ‘I’d tell them stories from years ago and have them in stitches, so when they’d tell me I…

The Beaches of Agnes

Playfully eccentric feminist biopic

17 Sep 2009

If this idiosyncratic cinematic self-portrait is indeed Agnes Varda’s final film, it’s an illuminating and poignant adieu. The Belgian-born octogenarian film-maker ‘walks backwards’ through her life, narrating and drawing on clips from her own films and…

David Heatley - My Brain is Hanging Upside Down

11 Dec 2008

AUTOBIOGRAPHY Its not unusual for an artist to use their life as source material, David Heatley has taken this autobiographical conceit to an altogether more meticulous end: he has taken entire hunks of his life and reproduce them in their entirety…

Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis

10 Apr 2008

AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Vintage) In advance of the Persepolis feature-length animation to be released at cinemas at the end of this month (25 April if you want to note it in your diary) comes this welcome two-in-one paperback edition of Satrapi’s seminal…

Blair to tell PM story through Random House

26 Oct 2007

Former prime minister Tony Blair has agreed a deal with the world’s biggest publisher for his memoirs; however it is thought his life story will not materialise for another two years. Random House scooped the deal, with both Mr Blair and the…

Cherie Blair signs £1m autobiography deal

20 Sep 2007

Cherie Blair is expected to lift the lid on her time in Downing Street, after signing an autobiography deal worth £1million. The wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who had a famously tempestuous relationship with her husband’s successor Gordon…

Peter Kay

The Sound of Laughter (Century)

12 Oct 2006

COMEDY AUTOBIOGRAPHY Since Peter Kay has built his career almost entirely upon a shared sense of nostalgia, it is only to be expected that his autobiography might contain a few ‘an’ then it were all back ‘ome for Manimal’ style anecdotes. But…

Joe Sacco

But I Like it (Fantagraphics)

10 Oct 2006

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/COLLECTION Containing some of the same material as previous Sacco collection Notes from a Defeatist, this new selection is a more focused attempt to archive and give order to the reams of material he amassed as a music mad young man who…