Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts From A Life
£25.00Beautifully designed, intimate and illuminating, the story of Ernest Hemingway’s life though the documents, photographs and miscellany that he kept.
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Darling Winston
£30.00Between 1881, when Churchill was just six, and 1921, the year of his mother’s death, Winston Churchill and Jennie Jerome were prolific and energetic correspondents. Their exchange of letters has never before been published as a volume of correspondence, and many of these intimate letters – between two highly gifted writers – are being published here for the first time. A significant addition to the Churchill canon, ‘Darling Winston’ traces Churchill’s emotional, intellectual and political development as confided to his main mentor. As well as providing a basic narrative of Jennie and Winston’s lives over a 40-year period, ‘Darling Winston’ portrays a mother-son relationship characterised at the outset by Winston’s dependence on his mother, which is dramatically reversed as her life crumbles tragically towards its end.
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What A Hazard A Letter Is
£12.99Looks at unsent letters in all their forms: the expressions of love left unsaid that could have changed two people’s lives; the shooting from the hip outbursts that, if not thought better of, would have landed the author in hot water; the plot twists in novels caused by letters going astray; the letters that events conspired to leave unsent, by death, disaster or providence; the habitual un-senders of letters, from Emily Dickinson to President Truman.
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My Dearest Dearest Albert
£12.99Using excerpts from letters and diaries written by Victoria over many decades, this book shows her very human side, from spirited young princess to caring Queen, passionate bride and loving mother to great-grandmother of a royal dynasty.
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Diary Of A Bookseller
£8.99Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown – Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover’s paradise? Well, almost! In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff, who include the ski-suit-wearing, bin-foraging Nicky. He takes us with him on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, recommends books (both lost classics and new discoveries), introduces us to the thrill of the unexpected find, and evokes the rhythms and charms of small-town life, always with a sharp and sympathetic eye.
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In My Mind’s Eye: A Thought Diary
£16.99‘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 begins this extraordinary book, a collection of diary pieces that Jan Morris wrote for the ‘Financial Times’ over the course of 2017. A former soldier and journalist, and one of the great chroniclers of the world for over half a century, she writes here in her characteristically intimate voice – funny, perceptive, wise, touching, wicked, scabrous, and above all, kind – about her thoughts on the world, and her own place in it as she turns 90. From cats to cars, travel to home, music to writing, it’s a cornucopia of delights from a unique literary figure.
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Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir in Correspondence
£8.99Comprised of letters written over the course of 30 years, it describes in vivid, painterly detail the remarkable courage and limitless imagination of a young girl growing up with nothing. Emma was an illegitimate child, raised in a windowless room in Bogota with no water or toilet and only ingenuity to keep her and her sister alive. Abandoned by their mother, she and her sister moved to a convent housing 150 orphan girls, where they washed pots, ironed and mended laundry, scrubbed floors, cleaned bathrooms, and sewed garments and decorative cloths for church. Illiterate and knowing nothing of the outside world, Emma escaped at age nineteen, eventually coming to have a career as an artist and to befriend the likes of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
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To War With Whitaker
£9.99An inspired memoir, spanning over the Second World War, from a powerfully independent Countess who wouldn’t take no for an answer
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Vanity Fair Diaries 1983?1992
£9.99‘The Vanity Fair Diaries’ is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her twenties who arrives in New York City with a dream. Summoned from London in hopes that she can save Conde Nast’s troubled new flagship Vanity Fair, Tina Brown is immediately plunged into the maelstrom of the competitive New York media world and the backstabbing rivalries at the court of the planet’s slickest, most glamour-focused magazine company. She survives the politics, the intrigue and the attempts to derail her by a simple stratagem: succeeding.
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Life of Stuff
£14.99Only after her mother’s death does Susannah Walker discover how much of a hoarder she had become. Over the following months, she has to sort through a dilapidated house filled to the brim with rubbish and treasures, in search of a woman she never knew in life. This is her last chance to piece together her mother’s story and make sense of their troubled relationship. What emerges from the mess of scattered papers, discarded photographs and an extraordinary amount of stuff is the history of a sad and fractured family, haunted by dead children, divorce and alcohol. ‘The Life of Stuff’ is a deeply personal memoir about mourning and the shoring up of possessions against the losses and griefs of life, which also raises universal questions about what makes us the people we are. What do our possessions say about us? Why do we project such meaning onto them?
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This Is Going To Hurt
£9.99The often hilarious, at times horrifying and occasionally heartbreaking diaries of a former junior doctor, and the story of why he decided to hang up his stethoscope.
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Theft By Finding
£10.99The point is to find out who you are and to be true to that person. Because so often you can’t. Won’t people turn away if they know the real me? You wonder. The me that hates my own child, that put my perfectly healthy dog to sleep? The me who thinks, deep down, that maybe The Wire was overrated? For nearly four decades, David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary in which he records his thoughts and observations on the odd and funny events he witnesses. Anyone who has attended a live Sedaris event knows that his diary readings are often among the most joyful parts of the evening.