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Don't Look At Me Like That by Diana Athill 9781783785803
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31England, in the mid-fifties. Meg Bailey has always aspired to live a respectable life. With her best friend, Roxane, she moves from secondary school to an un-bohemian art college in Oxford. Under... -
After A Funeral by Diana Athill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to take his own life. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just... -
Somewhere Towards The End by Diana Athill
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'There is a sense throughout Athill's work that you are making a new friend as much as reading a new story... A delight to read' Observer WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE, the moving and witty... -
Stet: An Editor's Life by Diana Athill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Diana Athill helped shape some of the most celebrated books in modern literature. For nearly five decades, she edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) writers including Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul... -
Midsummer Night in the Workhouse by Diana Athill 9781903155820
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155820Author Diana AthillFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher... -
Instead of a Letter Diana Athill (Y) 9781783787432
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Despite her family's ailing finances, Diana Athill's childhood - spent in a lovely house in Norfolk - was blissful. In 1932, she fell in love with Paul: an undergraduate who tutored her younger... -
Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend by Diana Athill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old friend, and writing with an intimacy and spontaneity... -
After a Funeral: A Memoir by Diana Athill 9780393338584
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.49When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi's quirks, which at first appeared so charming and sweet, soon revealed a darker side-he was... -
A Florence Diary Diana Athill (Y) 9781783787425
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A charming, vibrant diary of Diana Athill's holiday to Florence in the late 1940s. In August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her good... -
Make Believe: A True Story by Diana Athill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Following a turbulent upbringing, a history of addiction and a committal to an asylum, the teachings of Malcolm X changed Hakim Jamal's life. He became an eloquent, rousing spokesperson for the... -
Somewhere Towards The End by Diana Athill 9781803510927
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'There is a sense throughout Athill's work that you are making a new friend as much as reading a new story ... a delight to read' Observer WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE, the moving and... -
Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir by Diana Athill 9780393338003
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.29Hailed as "a virtuoso exercise" (Sunday Telegraph), this book reflects candidly, sometimes with great humor, on the condition of being old. Charming readers, writers, and critics alike, the memoir... -
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Instead Of A Letter by Diana Athill 9781847084286 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £4.81Diana Athill's childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside. Aged only fifteen, she fell in love with a young undergraduate. They travelled to Oxford, engaged to be married. Then... -
Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend by Diana Athill 9781847084897
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £66.89Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of... -
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things that Matter by Diana Athill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31What matters in the end? In the final years of life, which memories stand out? Writing from her retirement home in Highgate, London, as she approaches her 100th year, Diana Athill recalls in... -
Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood by Diana Athill 9781783788163
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A remarkable, truthful and vivid recollection of childhood, from the author of Stet, After a Funeral, Don''t Look at Me Like That and Instead of a Letter. Here Athill goes back to the beginning in a... -
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Somewhere Towards The End by Diana Athill 9781847080691 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.84'There is a sense throughout Athill's work that you are making a new friend as much as reading a new story ... a delight to read' Observer WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE, the moving and... -
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill 9780393353563
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.61What will you remember if you live to be 100? Diana Athill charmed readers with her prize-winning memoir Somewhere Towards the End, which transformed her into an unexpected literary star. Now, on the... -
In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'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 moment nothing much else to write, I am having a go at it. Good luck to me.'So... -
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In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary by Jan Morris 9780571340910 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.34AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4s BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Morris is one of Britain's greatest living writers.' The Times 'Fascinating ... valuable and rare. This book is a writer's constitutional.' Kate... -
Faber & Faber: The Untold Story by Toby Faber
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.97First published to celebrate Faber's 90th anniversary, this is the story of one of the world's greatest publishing houses - a delight for all readers who are curious about the business of writing.'A... -
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Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things that Matter by Diana Athill 9781783782543 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.54Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no longer live entirely independently, and moved to a retirement home in Highgate. There, she found herself released from the daily anxieties... -
On Smaller Dogs and Larger Life Questions by Kate Figes
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.26Coming up to her sixtieth birthday, Kate Figes found herself turning to the larger questions of family, love and life's meaning. It is like this author to examine different stages in writing, and... -
Spain by Jan Morris 9780571241767
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Spain is one of the absolutes. Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills - the vast splendour of the Spanish landscape, the intensity of... -
The Old Man and the Knee: How to be a Golden Oldie by Christopher Matthew
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Daunted by the prospect of old age? Fearful of becoming a silly old fool? 'No need,' says Christopher Matthew.He has just hit eighty. He plays golf; walks the dog; has all his own hair; doesn't need... -
Allegorizings Jan Morris 9780571234141
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.88'Peerless.' Daily Telegraph 'Sprinkled with magic.' Observer'Full of mischief, romance, fun and kindness.' The TimesSoldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an... -
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians.Antonia Fraser's magical memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and '40s, but its real concern is with... -
Conundrum Jan Morris 9780571341139
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from... -
Journey from the North: A Memoir Storm Jameson 9781805330462
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51After a lifetime of writing a novel every year, Storm Jameson turned to memoir with the ambition 'to write without lying'. The result was an extraordinary reckoning with how she had lived: her... -
Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life Rose Tremain 9781784708016
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46*The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller*Rose Tremain (or Rosie as she was then) grew up in post-war London - a city still partly in ruins, where both food and affection were fiercely rationed. But when... -
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You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr 9781408886052 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.98An Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, Sunday Times South Africa, Irish Times, Irish Independent, Big Issue and Strong Words Pick of the Year An Irish Times and The Times Summer Reading Pick ... -
You Will Be Safe Here Damian Barr 9781408886052
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42An Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, Sunday Times South Africa, Irish Times, Irish Independent, Big Issue and Strong Words Pick of the Year An Irish Times and The Times Summer Reading Pick ... -
Ardor by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people who lived... -
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Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life by Rose Tremain 9781784742270 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.58*A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2018**The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller*Rose Tremain grew up in post-war London, a city of grey austerity, still partly in ruins, where both food and affection were... -
Florence: A Traveller's Reader Edward Chaney 9781472141293
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88'The best conceivable guide to the city' - an essential cultural history for all visitors of FlorenceThe rich and glorious past of one of the best loved cities in the world, Florence, is brought... -
The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett by Helen Smith 9780224081818
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.74THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017Over a career spanning nearly fifty years Edward Garnett - editor, critic and publisher's reader - would become one of the most influential men in... -
Gathering Evidence by Thomas Bernhard
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and adored grandfather. Tormented as a young student in a right-wing, catholic... -
In Diamond Square: A Virago Modern Classic by Merce Rodoreda
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A small masterpiece' Colm Toibin, Daily Telegraph'I don't know how many times I have reread the book, including several times in Catalan, with such effort that speaks volumes to my devotion to the... -
Up Above the World by Paul Bowles 9780141191386
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A chance encounter while holidaying in Central America leads an American couple, the Slades, to befriend the charming, handsome Grove Soto and his young Cuban mistress. But as the Slades' trip... -
Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor 9781782119784
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 STELLA PRIZEIn the year before her death, as she struggled with an untreatable illness, Cory Taylor began to write about her experiences, the patterns of her life, and of...