R4's Riot Girls season to feature dramatisations of Caitlin Moran and Maria Alyokhina memoirs

Memoirs from Caitlin Moran, How to be a Woman (Ebury), and Pussy Riot activist Maria Alyokhina, Riot Days (Allen Lane), have been dramatised for the latest instalment of Riot Girls on BBC Radio 4. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to publish memoir about her years in jail in Iran

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A Posthumous Memoir Reveals Paul Newman in His Own Words

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5 revelations about Willie Nelson and his new memoir, 'Me and Paul'

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