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BiographyThe Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean
Author: Peter Burness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 644 Australia's official First World War correspondent, Charles Bean, saw more of the Australian Imperial Force's actions and battles on the Western...
A Moveable Feast
Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for...
Letters of Note: Grief
Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In Letters of Note: Grief, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about grief, from the...
Places I've Taken My Body
Author: Molly McCully Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing...
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of...
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
Author: Vita Sackville-West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries....
The Korean Kid: A Young Australian Pilot's Baptism of Fire in the Jet Fighter Age
Author: Rochelle Nicholls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 340 A vicious civil conflict erupted on the Korean peninsula in 1950 and sucked 24 nations into a new round of fighting....
Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher
Author: David McClay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The publishing house of John Murray was founded in Fleet Street in 1768 and remained a family firm over seven generations....
Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney
Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Artists' Letters is a treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing the reader with a unique insight...
Writers' Letters: Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe - The perfect Mother's Day gift
Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Delve into the lives and work of some of the world's great writers with this intriguing collection of correspondence. There is...
The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2
Author: Deborah Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Dazzling, essential, unlike anything else published today - a memoir on modern womanhood, smashing through social expectations and making...
Dear Paris: The Paris Letters Collection
Author: Janice MacLeod Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Be transported to the banks of the Seine, a corner boulangerie, or beneath the Eiffel Tower with these beautifully illustrated vignettes...
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of THE BROKEN ROAD. Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick...
Strange Planet: Existence Chronicle - Now on Apple TV+
Author: Nathan W. Pyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The curiously relatable inhabitants of Strange Planet are at it once again! Illustrated with art from the Strange Planet collections,...
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person...
The Confessions
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Rousseau's autobiography, giving a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the...
Wind, Sand and Stars
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation, Antoine de Saint Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars...
The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times - World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
Author: Nina Siegal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The...
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries
Author: Alan Bennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just...
Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life
Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'When I write I think deeply about my friends, I pray for them, I tell them my emotions and...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...
In God's Hands: The Spiritual Diaries of Pope St John Paul II
Author: Pope St John Paul II Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The spiritual diaries of Pope St John Paul II - published for the first time ever...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003
Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ......
Experience
Author: Martin Amis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his...
Italian Journey 1786-1788
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe...
The Unknown Anzacs: The Real Stories of Our National Legend
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12 Edmondstone Street
Author: David Malouf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 This remarkable book combines autobiography with a subtle, almost painterly sense of the ways in which the objects which...
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times no. 1 memoir now in paperback The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his...
The Rings of Saturn: (Vintage Voyages)
Author: W.G. Sebald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Encountering an eccentric...
The Makers of Rome
Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 An intriguing document giving insight into the founders of the Roman republic These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and...
Blue Nights
Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of...
The Civil War Letters of Alexander McNeill, 2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment
Author: Mac Wyckoff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 During the American Civil War, Alexander "Sandy" McNeill, a southern merchant, served in the Secession Guards, Company F, and Second South...
A Nurse's War: A Diary of Hope and Heartache on the Home Front
Author: Patricia Malcolmson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The remarkable wartime diary of nurse Kathleen Johnstone 'Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, this delightful diary brims with intelligence and humour.'...
Letters to My Sister: Write Now. Read Later. Treasure Forever.
Author: Lea Redmond Format: Other printed item Number of Pages: 12 This keepsake book of letters lets siblings share their love for their favourite sister with twelve guided writing prompts....
The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992
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A Month At The Front: The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
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Letters to My Daughter
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Lamson of the Gettysburg: The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamson, U.S. Navy
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Henry and June
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Journals 1952 -2000
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Everything in Moderation
Author: Daniel Finkelstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'I've never met Danny Finkelstein but I think I'm in love with him. His book is such good company - sane,...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87
Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy...
Pessoa: An Experimental Life
Author: Richard Zenith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1088 A monumental biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers 'A completely superb and magisterial life of...
Letters Written in France
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Twelve Moons: A year under a shared sky
Author: Caro Giles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 TWELVE MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the wide Northumberland skies. Caro...
Twelve Moons: A year under a shared sky
Author: Caro Giles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 TWELVE MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the wide Northumberland skies. Caro...
Outback Penguin: Richard Lane's Barwell Diaries
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Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas: Festive Diaries from the Creator of This Is Going to Hurt
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