The Telegraph's Best Books of 2025

Base Notes: The Scents of a Life is a Daily Telegraph book of the year 2025, featuring in biography and memoir alongside such luminaries as Jung Chang, Catherine Lacey and Richard Holmes...

'Forget the "misery memoir": 2025 was dominated by personal stories that put quality ahead of sensationalism...

Do you remember how you smelled at the key moments of your life? Stripe's ingenious memoir-in-perfumes uses different scents to recall her life's landmarks -- the adolescent pursuit of thinness, the aftermath of abortion, the hospital where her mother lay dying. It's just as affecting and strange as you'd expect.'

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