Memoir Archives

IT WAS SOON after I arrived in Japan that I met the sexpats. The long-term sex holidaymakers. You know...

I STEERED THE raft with my paddle buried deeply by the stern and we sped down the final drop...

Everybody talks about the weatherbut nobody does anything about it.– Mark TwainTALK OF A hotter, wetter climate is all...

LYING IN BED, under a cotton sheet and a slow-turning fan, I was listening to tropical birds – not...

By Bronwyn Lea

IT WAS AN innocent enough remark. "Looks like rain," he'd said, gesturing toward the bank of clouds looming over...

By Phil Brown

"SIR, OPEN YOUR bags, please." My father lifts his enormous suitcases up on to the counter and unzips them. The...

By Oren Siedler

EVERYONE KNEW HIS name was Michael, but no one whom he instructed in Latin would have dreamed of calling...

By Gideon Haigh

I'M DEAF. MY being deaf seems to be significant to other people. "Why do you speak like that?" This...

By Donna McDonald

WHEN BB TAUNTED me with continual cries of "You killed Jesus, you killed Jesus ... " I had no...

By Peter Davis

IN AN INTERVIEW with the vocational guidance officer sent out on the rural circuit during my final year of...

By Jena Woodhouse

About suffering they were never wrong,The Old Masters; how well, they understoodIts human position....– WH AudenABOUT GLAMOUR THEY were...

By Helen Elliott

SOME THINGS CAN be absorbed from a manageable distance, yet if I run from them memory runs with me.A stern...

By Natalie Scott