Diaries, letters & journals
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A journey to the western islands of Scotland
£10.99A journey to the western islands of Scotland
This text contains Johnson’s descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade and agriculture of a society that was new to him. Boswell offers an intimate personal record of Johnson’s behavior and conversation during the trip.
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Broken threads
£18.99Broken threads
‘Unforgettable’ SATHNAM SANGHERA
‘Spell-binding’ PETER FRANKOPAN
‘Fascinating’ WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
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Decca
£16.99Decca
The letters of one of the most idiosyncratic, witty and politically engaged of the Mitford sisters are the stories of the 20th century: gossip and politics, war, the wonders of technological change and poignant personal struggles.
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Diaries by Franz Kafka
£24.00Diaries by Franz Kafka
Dating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka’s ‘Diaries’ contains a broad array of writing, including accounts of daily events, assorted reflections and observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, records of dreams, and unrevised texts of stories. This volume makes available for the first time in English a comprehensive reconstruction of Kafka’s handwritten diary entries and provides substantial new content, restoring all the material omitted from previous publications – notably, names of people and undisguised details about them, a number of literary writings, and passages of a sexual nature, some of them with homoerotic overtones.
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Diary of an ordinary woman
£9.99Diary of an ordinary woman
Presented as the ‘edited’ journal of a real-life woman who was born in 1901 and died in 1995, this is a fiction where every word rings true. Millie starts her diary at the age of 13, on the eve of the Great War.
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Emma Journal – Lined
£10.00Emma Journal – Lined
Chiltern Publishing creates beautifully crafted editions of the World’s finest literature. Their extraordinary and unique classic cover designs have evolved into exquisite, handcrafted writing journals of a high art form. Put simply: they are the finest writing journals on the market.
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Everything I Know About Love
£10.99Everything I Know About Love
A spot-on, wildly funny and sometimes heart-breaking book about growing up, growing older and navigating all kinds of love along the way. When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist and former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod Stewart-themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you’ve ever been able to rely on, and finding that that your mates are always there at the end of every messy night out.
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Everything I know about love
£20.00Everything I know about love
A spot-on, wildly funny and sometimes heart-breaking book about growing up, growing older and navigating all kinds of love along the way. When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist and former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod Stewart-themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you’ve ever been able to rely on, and finding that that your mates are always there at the end of every messy night out.
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Grief
£12.99Grief
With comforting advice and supportive activities, Grief: A Guided Workbook to Help You Heal is a comforting companion to help you make sense of your feelings after experiencing loss. If you’re dealing with grief, you may feel isolated and alone, but this book is here to offer you support through each step of this personal journey.
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Halfway to Hollywood
£14.99Halfway to Hollywood
This second volume of Michael Palin’s diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, they made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful ‘Monty Python’s Meaning of Life’.
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Jane Austen
£14.99Jane Austen
The thirteen letters collected by Jane Austen’s House Museum, in Chawton, give us intimate glimpses into her life in Bath and Chawton and on visits to London, many details finding echoes in her fiction. Brought together in this book, these artefacts make a delightful modern-day keepsake of correspondence from one of the world’s best-loved writers.
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Letters for the ages
£12.99Letters for the ages
Here are some of the best of Churchill’s letters, many of a more personal and intimate nature, presented in chronological order, with a preface to each letter explaining the context. The recipients include a vast range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. They are taken from within the Churchill Archive in Cambridge, where there is a mass of Churchill’s correspondence. Several of the letters included have never appeared in book form before. Winston Churchill has become an iconic figure greatly loved the world over, but maybe especially these days in the USA. Churchill understood the power of words and he used his writing to sustain and complement his political career, publishing over 40 books and receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. This volume concentrates on his more intimate words.
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Newton’s notebook
£12.99Newton’s notebook
Newton’s Notebook is a biography of the great man, but a biography with a difference
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