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Memoir

 

Akerman, Chantal (2019) My Mother Laughs. London: Silver Press.

 

Araeen, R. (1984) Making Myself Visible. London Kala Press (Third Text Publications).

 

Baker, B. (2010) Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me. London: Profile Books.

See here for audio slideshow:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/interactive/2011/oct/10/bobby-baker-diary-audio-slideshow

 

Emin, T. (2005) Strangeland. London: Sceptre.

 

Fisher, M. (2014) The Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures. London: Zero Books.

 

Gay, R. (2016) Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. London: Cosair.

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Gleeson, S (2019) Constellations: Reflections from Life. London: Picador

 

Hall, S. (2017) Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands. London: Penguin Books.

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hooks, bell (1997) Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood. New York, Holt McDougal.

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Jarman, D (2018) Modern Nature: Journals, 1989 – 1990 (The Journals of Derek Jarman). London: Vintage Classics. (Also serialised on BBC Radio 4 in 2019 see below)

 

Levy, D. (2014) Things I Don’t Want To Know: A response to George Orwell’s 1946 essay ‘Why I Write’. London: Penguin.

 

Louis, É. (2017) The End of Eddy. London: Harvill Secker.

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Modern Nature (Omnibus), 09:00 30/06/2019, BBC Radio 4 Extra, 70 mins. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/13E6C30A?bcast=129603823 (Accessed 17 Aug 2020)

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Nelson, M (2016) The Argonauts. London: Melville House

Also available as an audiobook via audible, read by the author

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Smith, Patti (2011) Just Kids. London. Bloomsbury Paperbacks

Also available as an audiobook via audible, read by the author

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Thorn, T.  (2014) Bedsit Disco Queen. London: Virago.

Also available as an audiobook via audible, read by the author

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Autofiction (aka autobiographical novel)

 

Jacques, J. (2015) TRANS: A memoir. London: Verso.

 

McGowan, R. (2018) Brave. California: HarperOne.

 

Preciado, P. B. (2013) Testo Junkie: sex, drugs and biopolitics in the pharmacopornographic era. New York: The Feminist Press.*

* Short extract: http://worker01.e-flux.com/pdf/article_8966854.pdf

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