Diaries, letters & journals

Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it [9781848317369]

How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it  `As one of the last remaining survivors of the Great Depressio…

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Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956 [9780571328994]

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to…

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Carrington's Letters: Her Art, Her Loves, Her Friendships [9780701187583]

`Your letters are a great pleasure. I lap them down with breakfast and they do me more good than tonics, blood capsules or iron jelloids' Lytton Strac…

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The Good Bohemian: The Letters of Ida John [9781408873625]

Captivatingly fresh and intimate letters from Augustus John's first wife, Ida, reveal the untold story of married life with one of the great artists o…

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Diaries: From Blair to Brown, 2005 - 2007: Volume 6 [9781785900846]

'Endlessly fascinating ... Alastair Campbell's diaries are a unique historical document, providing testimony from the day things happened, unedited by…

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Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor [9781473622463]

A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road. Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and …

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Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother [9781444786286]

'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs ...' So begins the first letter that a nine-ye…

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The Times Great Letters: A Century of Notable Correspondence [9780008249496]

The Times has the most famous letters page of any newspaper. This delightful selection of over 300 items of correspondence over the last century shows…

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Diary of an Ordinary Schoolgirl [9781784742232]

23 February Results rolling in! Algebra, 6th = 74%. Not bad. Latin = 55% Thrilled! History top = 85% smashing! Geography, disgusting, 2nd = 67%. …

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In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary [9780571340910]

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth decade, having for the …

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Notable Woman, A: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt [9781782115724]

'Timeless, funny and utterly absorbing' HILARY MANTEL In April 1925 at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until jus…

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Darling Pol: Letters of Mary Wesley and Eric Siepmann 1944-1967 [9781784704476]

`They met by chance in the Palm Court of the Ritz Hotel on the evening of 26 October 1944. By the time she eventually caught the train back to Penzanc…

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Darling Pol: Letters of Mary Wesley and Eric Siepmann 1944-1967 [9781911215103]

Published here for the first time, this remarkable cache of letters reveals the great love story of Mary Wesley's life. 'They met by chance in the Pal…

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Diary of a Bipolar Explorer [9781909930636]

In 2002 Lucy Newlyn found herself incarcerated in a mental hospital in Leeds. She had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act as a danger to hersel…

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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson [9780241960417]

This is a compilation of the subversive, important and entertaining writer of Hunter S. Thompson - renowned American writer of Fear and Loathing in L…

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The Andy Warhol Diaries [9780141193076]

Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written at the height of his fame and succe…

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The Dark Interval: Letters for the Grieving Heart [9781526602985]

From one of the most famous poets in history comes a new selection of writings to bereaved friends and acquaintances, providing comfort in a time of g…

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The Journal of a Disappointed Man [9780241297698]

The young naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as 'a study in the nude'. It begins…

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Week on the Broads, A: Four Victorian gents at sail on a Norfolk gaffer in 1889 [9781472945136]

During their university holidays in the late 1880s, S.K. Baker and three of his University College friends clad in stripy blazers and boaters spent ti…

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Write a Letter: Put Pen to Paper and Put a Smile on the Face of a Stranger, a Friend or Yourself [9780241984697]

There are more ways than ever to communicate with people. But none match the intimacy, care and fulfilment found in sending and receiving letters. A l…

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