A life in writing: Tim Parks
'I couldn't really see a painting or a film or a game of football until I had thought about it in words, or preferably talked about it, or better still written about it'
Elton John to write book about Aids
Love Is the Cure, due in July, will include reminiscences about Freddie Mercury and teenage activist Ryan White
Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, a Father and Son’s Story by Patrick and Henry Cockburn – review
A memoir by the veteran war reporter Patrick Cockburn and his son offers a powerful inside story of mental illness, says Alexander Linklater
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Millions of women have fallen for Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir of self-discovery. Why, asks Rachel Cusk, as Eat, Pray, Love opens as a Julia Roberts blockbuster