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| Addicted (1998 – Arsenal and England footballer) |
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Tony Adams |
| Open (2009) |
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Andre Agassi |
| Pride and Perjury (2003 – disgraced former Conservative cabinet minister) |
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Jonathan Aitken |
| My Thoughts Exactly (2018) |
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Lily Allen |
| Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (2008); Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years (2019) |
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Julie Andrews |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), Gather Together in My Name (1974), Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), The Heart of a Woman (1981), All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986), A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002), Mom & Me & Mom (2013) |
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Maya Angelou |
| Ooh! What a Lovely Pair! (2009) |
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Ant & Dec |
| A Fortunate Life (2010) |
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Paddy Ashdown |
| Polly Wants a Zebra (1974) |
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Michael Aspel |
| Opening Up (2002) |
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Michael Atherton |
| Life On Air (2002) |
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David Attenborough |
| My Animals and Other Family (2012) |
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Clare Balding |
| The First Four Minutes (1955) |
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Sir Roger Bannister |
| A Better Me (2018) |
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Gary Barlow |
| Little Girl Lost (1990, aged 15) |
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Drew Barrymore |
| Both Feet on the Ground, My Side (both 2003) |
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David Beckham |
| Learning to Fly (2001) |
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Victoria Beckham |
| Borstal Boy (autobiographical novel, 1958); Confessions of an Irish Rebel ('Posthumous further memoirs', 1965) – died in 1964 aged 41 |
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Brendan Behan |
| The Wolf of Wall Street (2007 – filmed in 2013 starring Leonardo DiCaprio) |
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Jordan Belfort |
| Jolly Green Giant (2002) |
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David Bellamy |
Lost and Found (2010), There's Something I've Been Dying to Tell You (2014)
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Linda Bellingham |
| The Good, the Bad and the Bubbly (1999), Blessed (2001), Scoring at Half Time (2003), Hard Tackles and Dirty Baths (2005) |
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George Best |
| Summoned by Bells (verse autobiography, 1960) |
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John Betjeman |
| How Did All This Happen? (2013) |
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John Bishop |
| A Journey (2010) |
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Tony Blair |
| That's Not All Folks! (1988) |
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Mel Blanc |
| A Postillion Struck by Lightning (1977), Snakes and Ladders (1978), An Orderly Man (1983), Backcloth (1986), A Particular Friendship (1989), Great Meadow (1992), A Short Walk from Harrod's (1993), Cleared for Take–Off (1995) | |
Dirk Bogarde |
| I Chose to Climb (1966), The Next Horizon (1973), The Everest Years (1986) |
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Chris Bonington |
| Let's Get Through Wednesday (1979) |
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Reginald Bosanquet |
| Don't Tell Kath (1994), Head On (2007) |
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Ian Botham |
| Take It Like a Man (1995) |
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Boy George |
| My Shit Life So Far (2009) |
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Frankie Boyle |
| Look Back in Hunger (2009) |
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Jo Brand |
| My Booky Wook (2007) |
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Russell Brand |
| Odd Boy Out (2021) |
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Gyles Brandreth |
| Losing my Virginity (1998) |
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Richard Branson |
| Testament of Youth (1933), Testament of Experience (1957) |
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Vera Brittain |
| My Left Foot (1954; later expanded into the novel Down All the Days, 1970) |
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Christy Brown |
| My Life, Our Times (2017) |
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Gordon Brown |
| From Zero to Hero (1996) |
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Frank Bruno |
| The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (2006 – childhood memoirs) |
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Bill Bryson |
| Memory Hold–the–Door (1940 – published in the USA as Pilgrim's Way) |
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John Buchan |
| Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666, about his early spiritual struggles) |
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John Bunyan |
| I Used to Be an Animal, but I'm All Right Now (1986); Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (2001) |
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Eric Burdon |
| What's It All About? (1992), The Elephant to Hollywood (2011) |
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Michael Caine |
| Time and Chance (1987 – memoirs) |
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James Callaghan |
| Cheer Up Love (2016 – a memoir) |
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Susan Calman |
| For the Record (2019 – memoirs) |
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David Cameron |
| The Lonely Sea and the Sky (1964) |
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Sir Francis Chichester |
| To Be Honest With You (1995) |
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Linford Christie |
| Voice of an Angel (2001, aged 14), Keep Smiling (2007) |
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Charlotte Church |
| Who Am I? (2023): frequently wayward England rugby international |
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Danny Cipriani |
| Kind of Blue: a Political Memoir (2016) |
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Kenneth Clarke |
| A Young Man's Passage (2005) |
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Julian Clary |
| So, Anyway (2014) |
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John Cleese |
| Politics: Between the Extremes (2016) |
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Nick Clegg |
| Living History (2003), Hard Choices (2014), What Happened (2017) |
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Hillary Clinton |
| Running My Life (2012) |
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Seb Coe |
| The World Was My Lobster (2013 – died 2015) |
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George Cole |
| Not Dead Yet (2016)
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| Phil Collins |
| Windswept and Interesting (2021 – comedy superstar) |
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Billy Connolly |
| The Point of Departure (2003 – died 2005) |
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Robin Cook |
| High Hopes (2000) |
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Ronnie Corbett |
| May I Have Your Attention Please (2011) |
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James Corden |
| Present Indicative (1934), Future Perfect (1952) |
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Noel Coward |
| The Naked Civil Servant (1968) |
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Quentin Crisp |
| Call Me Lucky (1953) |
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Bing Crosby |
| Walking Tall (2007), How to be a Footballer (2018), I, Robot: How to be a Footballer 2 (2019) |
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Peter Crouch |
| Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984), Going Solo (1986) |
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Roald Dahl |
| Thanks a Lot Mr. Kibblewhite (2018) |
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Roger Daltrey |
| The Autobiography of a Super–Tramp (1908 – Welsh poet) |
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W. H. Davies |
| A Clown Too Many (1985), No Tears for the Clown (1992) |
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Les Dawson |
| Grand Inquisitor (memoirs – 1989) |
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Robin Day |
| Overture and Beginners (1975 – husband and wife "double autobiography") |
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Michael Denison |
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Dulcie Gray | |
| Take Me Home (1994 – died 1997) |
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John Denver |
| Confessions of an English Opium–Eater (1821) |
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Thomas de Quincey |
| The Duke: What a Bobby Dazzler (2003) |
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David Dickinson |
| Out of Africa (1937) |
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Isaak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) |
| The Ragman's Son (1988 – a reference to the occupation that his father followed in Amsterdam, New York, shortly after the First World War) |
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Isaak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) |
| Growing Pains: the Shaping of a Writer (1977) |
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Daphne du Maurier |
| Permission to Speak (1986) |
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Clive Dunn |
| My Family and Other Animals (1956 – childhood memoirs) |
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Gerald Durrell |
| So Far, So Good (1995) |
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Paul Eddington |
| A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (memoir, 2000)
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Dave Eggers |
| It's Not What You Think (2009) |
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Chris Evans |
| Twin Ambitions (2013) |
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Mo Farah |
| Managing My Life (1999) |
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Alex Ferguson |
| The Galloping Major: My Life in Singular Times (1994) |
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Ronald Ferguson |
| Sing As We Go (1960) |
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Gracie Fields |
| Living Dangerously (1987), Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (2007) |
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Ranulph Fiennes |
| Postcards from the Edge (1987 – semi–autobiographical novel) |
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Carrie Fisher |
| Ashes to Ashes (2009) |
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Andrew Flintoff |
| A Time to Heal (1979) |
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Gerald Ford |
| Who's Sorry Now? (1984) |
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Connie Francis |
| The Sport of Queens (1957 – preceded any of his novels) |
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Dick Francis |
| The Diary of a Young Girl (published posthumously in Dutch 1947, English 1952) |
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Anne Frank |
| Dear Fatty (2008 – letters to "different people who have been in her life") |
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Dawn French |
| Moab is my Washpot (1997), More Fool Me (2014) |
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Stephen Fry |
| The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1927) |
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Mahatma Gandhi |
| Noa Noa: My Voyage to Tahiti (1919) |
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Paul Gauguin |
| Is That It? (1986) |
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Bob Geldof |
| Bobby Dazzler: My Story (2006) – English former darts player |
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Bobby George |
| Forever In My Heart, Fighting to the End, How It All Began (all 2009) |
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Jade Goody |
| Dazzler (2001), Dazzler on the Dance Floor (2006) |
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Darren Gough |
| Still Dancing (1985) |
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Lew Grade |
| Goodbye to All That (1929) |
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Robert Graves |
| 8 volumes of theatre–related and personal memoirs, An Unnatural Pursuit (1985), and the critically acclaimed trilogy The Smoking Diaries (2004–2008). (See also Playwrights.) |
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Simon Gray |
| The Motorcycle Diaries (published in 1995, but written as a diary in 1952; filmed in 2004) |
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Che Guevara |
| Blessings in Disguise (1985) |
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Alec Guinness |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965 – ghost writer) |
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Alex Haley |
| The Didi Man: My Love Affair with Liverpool (2012) |
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Dietmar Hamann |
| On the Edge (2007) |
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Richard Hammond |
| The Two of Us (2004), Just Me (2008) |
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Sheila Hancock |
| I Me Mine (1980) |
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George Harrison |
| Face It: a Memoir (2019) |
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Debbie Harry |
| Is It Just Me? (2013), Peggy and Me (2016)
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Miranda Hart |
| Listen To My Music (1957) |
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Ted Heath (bandleader) |
| A Moveable Feast (published posthumously in 1964)
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Ernest Hemingway |
| Who Am I, Again? (2019) |
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Lenny Henry |
| Life in the Jungle (2001) |
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Michael Heseltine |
| To Be a Matador (1972) |
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Henry Higgins |
| The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady (1977 – facsimile edition of personal nature notes from 1906) |
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Edith Holden |
| Barefaced Lies and Boogie–Woogie Boasts (2007) |
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Jools Holland |
| Black, White and Gold (2008) |
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Kelly Holmes |
| I Owe Russia $2,000 (1963), The Last Christmas Show (1976), The Road to Hollywood (1977) |
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Bob Hope |
| Crazy Horse (1980 – former England football captain) |
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Emlyn Hughes |
| 1966 and All That (2001) |
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Geoff Hurst |
| Playing with Fire (2004) |
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Nasser Hussain |
| The Doors of Perception (short book, 1954, about his experiences with mescaline – from which the rock group The Doors took their name) |
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Aldous Huxley |
| Moon Walk (1988) |
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Michael Jackson |
| Bit of a Blur (2007) |
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Alex James |
| My Life (2013) – pages mixed up with the latest Bridget Jones saga by the publisher |
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David Jason |
| Me (2019 – popular music superstar) |
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Elton John |
| This Boy: Memoirs of Childhood (2013), Please, Mister Postman (2014), The Long and Winding Road (2016) – Labour MP, Home Secretary 2009–10 |
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Alan Johnson |
| Honest (2002) |
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Ulrika Jonsson |
| The Sound of Laughter (2006) |
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Peter Kay |
| Rene and Me (1989) |
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Gorden Kaye |
| An Evil Cradling (1993 – about his time as a hostage in Beirut) |
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Brian Keenan |
| The Story of My Life (1903), The World I Live In (1908), Out of the Dark (1913), My Religion (1927 – posthumously revised and republished in 1994 as Light In My Darkness), Let Us Have Faith (1940), |
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Helen Keller |
| Scum of the Earth (1941), Arrows in the Blue (1952) |
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Arthur Koestler |
| From Drags to Riches (1987) |
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Danny la Rue |
| Fly Me, I'm Freddie! (1981) |
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Freddie Laker |
| The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922) |
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T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) |
| The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life (2016) |
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John le Carré |
| Tall, Dark and Gruesome (1977, 1999; reissued in 2004 as Lord of Misrule) |
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Christopher Lee |
| Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out one Midsummer Morning (1969), A Moment of War (1991) |
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Laurie Lee |
| Rogue Trader (1996) |
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Nick Leeson |
| Unmasked (2018) |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Avowed Intent (1994) |
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Lord Longford |
| Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored (2014) |
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John Lydon |
| Full Circle (2010) |
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Ellen McArthur |
| Angela's Ashes (1996 – Pulitzer Prize 1997), 'Tis (1999), Teacher Man (2005) |
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Frank McCourt |
| An Improbable Life (2019) |
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Trevor McDonald |
| Serious (2002) |
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John McEnroe |
| Woman of Today (memoirs, 2002) |
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Sue MacGregor |
| You Can Get There from Here (1975) |
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Shirley MacLaine |
| Winds of Change (1966), The Blast of War (1967), Tides of Fortune (1969), Riding the Storm (1971), Pointing the Way (1972), At the End of the Day (1973) |
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Harold Macmillan |
| Long Walk to Freedom (1994) |
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Nelson Mandela |
| Brung Up Proper (2011) |
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Jason Manford |
| This Much Is True (2021 – octogenarian English actress and media personality) |
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Miriam Margolyes |
| Set the Boy Free (2016) |
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Johnny Marr |
| A Ring of Bright Water (1960); sequels The Rocks Remain (1963), Raven Seek Thy Brother (1968)
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Gavin Maxwell |
| Bigger than Hitler, Better than Christ (2005 – described by Wikipedia as "an 'in–character' semi–fictionalised autobiography") |
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Rik Mayall |
| Rum, Bum and Concertina (Navy memoirs – 1977) |
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George Melly |
| Big Sur and the Oranges of Heironymous Bosch (1957) |
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Henry Miller |
| Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1971); "Rommel?" "Gunner who?": a Confrontation in the Desert (1974); Monty: My Part in His Victory (1976): Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall (1978) |
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Spike Milligan |
| Hons and Rebels (1960 – first published in the USA as Daughters and Rebels) |
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Jessica Mitford |
| Tomorrow will be a Good Day (2020; author died a few months later, in 2021) |
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Captain Sir Tom Moore |
| How to Be a Woman (2011) – feminist memoir by a Times columnist, former music journalist and TV presenter |
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Caitlin Moran |
| More or Less (1978) |
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Kenneth More |
| Autobiography (2013) – controversially first published as a Penguin Classic |
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Morrissey |
| And Away ... (2021) |
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Bob Mortimer |
| Momentum (2002; author died 2005) |
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Mo Mowlam |
| Chronicles of Wasted Time: Part 1 The Green Stick (1972), Part 2 The Infernal Grove (1973) |
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Malcolm Muggeridge |
| A Kentish Lad (1997 – died 1998) |
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Frank Muir |
| Secret Society (1996) |
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Emma Nicholson MP |
| Spend, Spend, Spend (1977)
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Viv Nicholson |
| The Moon's a Balloon (1972), Bring On the Empty Horses (1975)
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David Niven |
| Under the Eye of the Clock (1987 – winner of the Whitbread Book Award; told in the third person, with an apparently fictitious protagonist named Joseph Meehan) | | Christopher Nolan |
| And Why Not (as I never did say) (2002) |
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Barry Norman |
| Changing Trains (1996) – Parliamentary Under–Secretary of State for Transport, and Minister for Transport in London, 1992–7 |
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Steven Norris MP |
| Dreams from my Father (1995 – re–issued in 2004 and 2008); A Promised Land (2020) |
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Barack Obama |
| Becoming (2018) |
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Michelle Obama |
| Country Girl (2012) |
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Edna O'Brien |
| Homage to Catalonia (1938 – a personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War) |
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George Orwell |
| A Better Class of Person (1981), Almost a Gentleman (1991) |
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John Osborne |
| Survivor (2008) |
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Sharon Osbourne |
| A Life in Questions (2016) |
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Jeremy Paxman |
| Psycho (2000) – former England footballer (78 caps, 1987–99) |
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Stuart Pearce |
| Margrave of the Marshes (2005, posthumous) |
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John Peel |
| Spectacles (2015 – a memoir) |
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Sue Perkins |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl (2006) |
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Grayson Perry |
| A Stupid Boy (2002) |
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Jimmy Perry |
| The Bell Jar (1963 – semi–autobiographical novel, published less than a month before her death) |
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Sylvia Plath |
| My American Journey (1995 – published in the UK as A Soldier's Way) |
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Colin Powell |
| Humble Pie (2006) |
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Gordon Ramsay |
| Where's the Rest of Me? (1965)
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Ronald Reagan |
| The Colditz Story (1952) |
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Pat Reid |
| My Farce from my Elbow (1975) |
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Brian Rix |
| Memoirs of an Unfit Mother (2001) |
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Anne Robinson |
| Known and Unknown (2011) |
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Donald Rumsfeld |
| Joseph Anton: a Memoir (2012)
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Salman Rushdie |
| Unleashed (1997 – England cricketer) |
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Jack Russell |
| The Enf od an Earring (2016 – former EastEnders actress) |
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Pam St. Clement |
| Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930), Sherston's Progress (1936) – fictionalised autobiographies: the "Sherston trilogy" |
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Siegfried Sassoon |
| Bonkers: My Life in Laughs (2013) |
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Jennifer Saunders |
| As It Happens (1974) – republished in paperback 1976 as Love is an Uphill Thing |
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Jimmy Savile |
| It Doesn't Take a Hero (1992) |
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Norman Schwarzkopf |
| Strawberries and Cream (1996) |
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Harry Secombe |
| Clown Prince of Soccer (1955) |
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Len Shackleton |
| The World at My Feet (1991) |
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Sandie Shaw |
| Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer (1954) |
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Nevil Shute |
| If I Did It (2006) |
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O. J. Simpson |
| Toast: the Story of a Boy's Hunger (2003 – adapted for BBC TV 2010) |
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Nigel Slater |
| Anfield Iron (2008) |
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Tommy Smith |
| Unwrapped (2001) |
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Freddie Starr |
| Bermondsey Boy (2006) |
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Tommy Steele |
| The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
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Gertrude Stein |
| Playing for Keeps (2003) |
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Alec Stewart |
| Testing Times: in Pursuit of the Ashes (2009) |
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Andrew Strauss |
| King of Clubs (1996) |
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Peter Stringfellow |
| What You See is What You Get (2010) |
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Alan Sugar |
| If I Don't Write It, Nobody Else Will (2005) |
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Eric Sykes |
| Upwardly Mobile (1988) |
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Norman Tebbitt |
| The Downing Street Years (1993), The Path to Power (1995) |
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Margaret Thatcher |
| This Time Next Week (1964), In My Wildest Dreams (1984) |
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Leslie Thomas |
| Stand Up Pinocchio (2008 – Liverpool footballer and coach) |
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Phil Thompson |
| Rising from the Ashes (2005) – described in the Press as "English cricket's most disturbed player" and in his publisher's blurb as "England's best batsman of the last decade" |
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Graham Thorpe |
| Trowel and Error (2002) |
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Alan Titchmarsh |
| A Point of View (1990) |
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Barry Took |
| Mr Bevan's Dream: Why Britain Needs Its Welfare State (1989); Public Confessions of a Middle–Aged Woman (aged 55¾) (2001 – collected from a monthly column in Sainsbury's Magazine) |
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Sue Townsend |
| Coming Back to Me (2008) |
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Marcus Trescothick |
| Unguarded (2016 – South African–born, Warwickshire and England cricketer) |
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Jonathan Trott |
| Roughing It (1872 – describing his stagecoach journeys through the Wild West) |
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Mark Twain |
| Dear Me (1977) |
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Peter Ustinov |
| Calling the Shots: the Captain's Story (2005); Time to Declare (2009) |
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Michael Vaughan |
| Palimpsest (1995), Point to Point Navigation (2006) |
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Gore Vidal |
| Courting Triumph (1978) |
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Virginia Wade |
| Taken on Trust (1993) |
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Terry Waite |
| Unless I'm Very Much Mistaken (2002) |
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Murray Walker |
| Camp David (2012) |
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David Walliams |
| That's Another Story (2008) |
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Julie Walters |
| Jack of All Trades (1975) |
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Jack Warner |
| The Man in the Middle: the Autobiography of the World Cup Final Referee (2016) |
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Howard Webb |
| Auto da Fay (2002) |
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Fay Weldon |
| Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It (1959, revised 1970) |
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Mae West |
| Quite Contrary (1993) |
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Mary Whitehouse |
| Evening All: 50 Years over a Hot Typewriter (1991) |
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Ted Willis |
| The Heart Has Its Reasons (1956) |
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Duchess of Windsor |
| Don't Laugh at Me, Cos I'm a Fool (2 volumes, both 1992) |
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Norman Wisdom |
| Grasmere Journal (diary – published in 1897, 42 years after her death) |
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Dorothy Wordsworth |
| The Prelude (autobiographical poem – published 1850, three months after his death) |
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William Wordsworth |
| Title of Prince Harry (Duke of Sussex)'s controversial memoir, published in January 2023 |
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