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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Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956 - 1963 [9780571339204]

The second volume of this landmark edition of Sylvia Plath's correspondence. AUTHOR: Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and …

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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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Jog on Journal: A Practical Guide to Getting Up and Running [9780008370039]

The essential companion to the Sunday Times bestselling Jog On - a funny, practical guide to managing your mental health through exercise. Bella Mack…

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Mum, Tell Me: A Give & Get Back Book [9780241367223]

When Elma van Vliet's mother became ill in 2001, she realised there was still so much she wanted to ask her. That's why she created a series of books …

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 Alastair Campbell's diaries are a unique historical document, providing testimony from the day things happened, unedited by…

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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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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 show…

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100 Letters That Changed the World [9781911641094]

A collection of the most inspiring and powerful letters of all time. The written word has the power to inspire, astonish and entertain, as this col…

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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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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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Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume 7: From Crash to Defeat, 2007-2010 [9781785900853]

Caught in the no man's land between being a key figure in Downing Street and the relative anonymity of the world outside politics, Alastair Campbell f…

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The Bernard Ingham Diaries: January 1989 to December 1990 [9781785904783]

The ultimate insider, Bernard Ingham was Margaret Thatcher's press secretary during her tenure at No. 10. These eagerly anticipated diaries will shed…

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Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice [9780241444153]

What's your journey of becoming? Based on Michelle Obama's bestselling memoir, this gorgeous journal features an intimate and inspiring introduction b…

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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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