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Access the events using the 2008 Programme

1928: Orlando, The Well of Loneliness and The Ladies Almanack
A.C. Grayling: Descartes' Mind, Descartes' Body
A.M. Homes: Secrets, Lies and the Truth In Between
Alain de Botton: Status Anxiety: Successful and Failed Lives
Alicia Drake: After The Beautiful Fall
Alistair Horne: Paris: Biography of a City
André Schiffrin: My Political Education
Anton Gill: Art Lover - The Life & Times of Peggy Guggenheim
Béatrice Commengé and Amélie Nothomb in Conversation
Blake Morrison: Life Writing and Remembered Lives
Carolyn Burke: Biography and Serendipity: In édith Piaf's Footsteps
Catherine Millet on her upcoming memoir Jour de Souffrance.
English PEN presents Another Sky in Paris
Hermione Lee: Biography and the Case of Edith Wharton
Jeanette Winterson: How to Tell the Truth
John Baxter: Man Bites Biographer
Jung Chang: My Personal Journey Towards the Understanding of Mao
Luke Davies on Candy and God of Speed
Marjane Satrapi: Drawing a Life: Biography and the Graphic Novel
Memoir and Fiction panel chaired by Ian Jack, with A.M. Homes and Siri Hustvedt
Paul Auster reads from his upcoming novel Man in the Dark
Rachel Cusk: Motherhood and Memoir
Shiv Malik: Biography and Journalism in the Age of Terrorism
Susannah Clapp: With Chatwin - The Editor's Story
Tété-Michel Kpomassie: An African in Greenland
The New York Review of Books panel on Obama
Veronica Buckley: In the Shadow of the Sun King
Victoria Glendinning: Memoirs versus Biographies