This is the first account from UN workers on the front line and an honest memoir about the successes and failures of the UN.

Although billed as an autobiographical novel, it reads just like a memoir: pensive, particular and honest.

"Yogi" is a warm, funny and honest memoir.

Her equally honest, self-exposing new memoir isn't about meditation, however.

It is certainly the most honest memoir I have read from a participant in any recent war.

Rawnsley does, though, praise the book as being "a more honest political memoir than most and more open in many respects than I had anticipated."

Perhaps only an orphan, or a heartless monster, could successfully write an honest memoir of childhood when she's barely out of her 20's.

Her tale "reads just like a memoir: pensive, particular and honest," Annette Kobak wrote in these pages in 1999.

An unboyish President would have passed up this trip and contented himself with packing for the move and putting his thoughts in order for a good, honest memoir.

A Preparation for Death, Baxter's brutally honest memoir about his literary ambitions and self-sabotaging behaviour in boomtime Dublin, revealed a blazing talent.