Can you please recommend an interesting biography?

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Preferably an autobiography.

I've recently read Andre Agassi -Open, Joanna Lumley's, Rupert Everett's, Duncan Bannantyne's and Alan Sugar's (which is the best and most candid I have ever read).

Am very open minded, so could be anybody's.

Thank you

Richard e Grant's one

It's about 25 years old but Tina Turner's autobiography still sticks in my mind. It had a huge impression on me as a teenager about being a strong woman and also how you can come back from making mistakes and unfortunate choices.

Read Slash from Guns n Roses - he's had a crazy life!

infidel - ayaan hirsi ali
malcolm X

both good. neither are light (perhaps obvious). I might try something like stephen fry for christmas.

Bob geldof - is this it - written about 20 years ago

Even though I don't particularly like him I was lent both of Piers Morgans autobiographies which were really interesting, more about the world he inhabited as opposed to the man himself.

Nancy spungens biography by her mother - she was Sid vicious girlfriend.

Toast by Nigel slater

This boy by Alan johnson

Sharon osbournes is pretty interesting

Steve Brooksteins book just come out, sounds fascinating (but x factor won't be happy!)

Prue Leith's autobiography was so interesting - she has done so much in her career, and her account was fascinating. I also recently read a biography of the cook Elizabeth David , quite a character ! Well worth getting hold of, can't remember the exact title .

Rupert Everett's two autobiographies, particularly the first one.

Alan Johnson's This Boy and Please Mister Postman, though again the first one is a better read.

Damian Barr's Maggie and Me.

Empty Mansions, the story of millionairess recluse Huguette Clark. A fascinating read with some amazing photos of her various homes.

Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr.

I see this thread is still going! Hope the OP has found something to her taste by now. If not, Viv Albertine's memoir, published last year, is an excellent read.

Miracles Of Life - J G Ballard's autobiography. Fascinating overview of his years in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai (which he later fictionalised in Empire Of The Sun) as well as his time at Cambridge and later years that gave birth to the likes of Crash.

Alan Cumming! Not my father's son.
Mostly about his experiences delving into family secrets for his episode of Who do you think you are? - worth a read even if you've seen that episode (she says avoiding huge spoiler!)

Richard E Grant, Stephen Fry..

84 charing cross road
Alan johnson - this boy
Loved Franz skinner's autobiography - he writes brilliantly
Very disappointed by pamela Stephenson-billy. Am big BC fan!

Not an autobiography as such, but brilliant writing by a young windower about his wife - it's not raining daddy its happy '. Brookes-Dutton

Another vote for This Boy by Alan Johnson. Yes his childhood was poor, but the warmth and affection which which he speaks of his mum and sister is truly inspiring. I work in the area he grew up in so I enjoyed that aspect as well.

Night Song of The Last Tram by Robert Douglas.

Autobiography of the author's childhood in 1940's/50's Glasgow.

It's a magical, funny and sad story but is the best autobiography I've ever read.

I just finished Stephen Fry's Moab is my Washpot

It was published in 1997 and the reviews on Amazon of the subsequent two books says they are not as good as the first.

I would definitely recommend it, I really got a sense of his early isolation and 'different-ness'. It was very funny at times, sad and poignant at others.

David Attenborough's is good.

I really enjoyed Janet Street-Porter's autobiography, growing up in London. Also Benazir Bhutto's, Daughter of the East.

Growing up in London is not the title, btw! Can't remember what it was called. Something like, Janet Street Porter, autobiography

I would def agree with the earlier recommendation of Clothes clothes clothes, music music music, boys boys boys by Viv Albertine. I loved it, as much for the music references as for her. She's fab smile]

Clive James' Unreliable Memoirs is very funny.

I don't want to hijack someone else's thread but was going to start one on this very subject myself but I am looking for one that isn't written by a celebrity, something inspirational, rising from tough times that kind of thing? Anyone got any suggestions? I have had some wonderful suggestions on here (my last 4 books infact)!

Give Me Ten Seconds by John Sergeant.

Viv Albertine's is brilliant.

Another vote for Alan Cumming's memoir Not My Fathers Son. It is superb. And I am really picky about memoirs. It isn't really showbiz at all. It's about his family history.

Also recommend Alan Bennett's two memoirs Writing Home and Untold Stories. They are massive and kept me occupied for over a month .