Books like A Child's Christmas in Wales
Dylan Thomas remembers the Christmases of his boyhood in a Welsh seaside town: the snow, the presents, the uncles and the aunts.
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The Dark Child
Camara Laye remembers growing up in Kouroussa in French Guinea, the son of a goldsmith with magical gifts, until he leaves for school in Conakry and then for Paris.
Aké: The Years of Childhood
Soyinka's memoir of growing up in a parsonage compound in Abeokuta in western Nigeria in the 1930s and 40s, up to the age of eleven.
One Writer's Beginnings
Welty's Harvard lectures on growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, on her parents and her reading, and on the habits of listening and watching that made her a writer.
Speak, Memory
Nabokov remembers his St. Petersburg childhood and émigré youth, from butterfly summers on the family estate to Cambridge and Berlin, in prose built like a chess problem.
Christmas Days
Twelve Christmas stories, from ghosts to a magic box, each paired with a recipe and a memory from Winterson's own Christmases.
The Tongue Set Free
Canetti remembers his childhood from 1905 to 1921, in a Sephardic Jewish family in Bulgaria, Manchester, Vienna and Zurich, and the mother who taught him German.
Winter Solstice
Elfrida Phipps, a retired actress, moves to a Hampshire village and ends up spending Christmas in a big house in the far north of Scotland with a group of strangers who each need a home.
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories
Four Christmas crime stories, two of them featuring Adam Dalgliesh, written over the years for magazines.
Living to Tell the Tale
The first volume of García Márquez's memoirs, from his childhood in his grandparents' house in Aracataca to his years as a young journalist in Cartagena and Barranquilla, up to 1955.
World's Fair
A boy grows up in 1930s Bronx, and the World's Fair becomes the lens through which he sees his family, his neighbourhood, and the promise of American modernity.
Istanbul: Memories and the City
Pamuk's memoir of growing up in Istanbul in the 1950s and 60s, of his family, and of the melancholy of the city, which Turks call hüzün.
Boyhood
Coetzee's account, written in the third person, of a boy growing up in Worcester, a provincial town in the Cape, in the late 1940s and early 50s.