Diaries, Letters & Journals

'This extraordinary, beautiful memoir gripped me from the first page.' Clover Stroud, author of The Wild Other What do our possessions say about us?

Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia

'You are the knife I turn inside myself'Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writerKafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech.

Great Speeches collects over forty of the most powerful and stirring addresses delivered in the English language. Arranged in chronological order for easy reference, this book comes with a free CD of recordings of these great speeches.

Virginia and her husband Leonard Woolf lived in Richmond-upon-Thames for ten years from the time of the First World War (1914-1924).

Transform your life using the Bullet Journal Method, the revolutionary organisational system and worldwide phenomenon.

Set in London in 1983, ‘Diary of an Irish Mother’ offers a snapshot into the hectic life of Vera Byrne.

`Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart...very effectively... This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating and rather wonderful history of cardiology.'

Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood.

 

Not afraid to put forth views on the big topics - religion, evolution, and ethical issues - she also tackles the nuts and bolts of living - food, sex and health. Vital, refreshingly frank and always amusing, A Victorian Lady's Guide to Life provides a wealth of sound advice.