Sentence examples for favourite memoir from inspiring English sources

What is your favourite memoir?

Each writer is asked to come with a short review of their favourite memoir which they will present to the group.

It's one of my favourite music memoirs for showing the thrill of forming a band and the challenge of trying to continue in an inflexible industry with a young family and a husband — Ben Watt — who is also your bandmate.

Always the Children A Nursee's Story of Home and War, by Anne Watts, read by Nerys Hughes (10½hrs unabridged, Audio Go, £32.50) Until I heard this extraordinarily uplifting memoir, my favourite book about wartime nurses was A Farewell to Arms.

A trivial thing, it has to be said, and yet how interesting it is to know that David Cameron's favourite is Robert Graves's memoir of the trenches, Goodbye to All That, and that Ed Miliband chose Ian McEwan's 2007 novella about connubial disaster, On Chesil Beach.

3. Memoir by John McGahern My favourite of all McGahern's books, the narrator's tone that of a small boy who will go through his entire life never quite getting over the early death from breast cancer of his adored mother.

(Cameron then revealed that his absolute favourite book is the WWI battlefield memoir Goodbye to All That, by Robert Graves).

Philip Glass is one of my favourite composers: I've just started his memoir Words Without Music (Faber £22.50).

Alfonso Cuarón's domestic memoir Roma and scabrous period comedy The Favourite dominated the London Film Critics' Circle awards, which were handed out on 20 January.

William Hill and Ladbrokes both have H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (pictured) as short-odds favourite, and they respectively rate Marion Coutts's The Iceberg: A Memoir as second and third favourite.

Before meeting Parton I read her slim memoir, Dream More, which included a list of her favourite answers to often-asked questions.