On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome…
From one of America’s greatest and most iconic writers: an honest and courageous portrait of age and motherhood.
From one of America’s greatest and most iconic writers: an honest and courageous portrait of age and motherhood.
The Lost Diaries is a wide-ranging anthology of the world’s greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown.
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One woman’s journal of single life on the margins.
A brilliant collection of Lynne Truss’ journalism – recording the life of a metropolitan refugee from coupledom. The alternative ‘Bridget Jones’.
‘My mother-in-law Annie lived with us for 17 years and was picture-book perfect.’
Just after ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ author Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker for ‘Wolf Hall’, she fell gravely ill. This is her remarkable hospital diary.
Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost and his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best.
The Lost Diaries is a wide-ranging anthology of the world’s greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown.
The Lost Diaries is a wide-ranging anthology of the world’s greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown.
A fascinating collection of letters from the great English novelist – and prolific correspondent – Penelope Fitzgerald
‘Where are the snows of yesteryear. And the speedballs I useta know? Well, I guess it’s time for my Ovaltine and a long good night.’
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE
The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer – full of wit, feeling and illumination.
‘My mother-in-law Annie lived with us for 17 years and was picture-book perfect.’
‘My mother-in-law Annie lived with us for 17 years and was picture-book perfect.’
For fans of Lorna Sage and Paula Fox, a unique memoir from Irma Kurtz, the acclaimed author of ‘The Great American Bus Ride’ and internationally renowned agony aunt.
