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In April 1925, Jean Lucey Pratt began writing a journal. She continued to write until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing well over a million words in 45 exercise books over the course of her lifetime. For sixty years, no one had an inkling of her diaries’ existence, and they have remained unpublished until now. Jean wrote about anything that amused, inspired or troubled her, laying bare every aspect of her life with aching honesty, infectious humour, indelicate gossip and heartrending hopefulness. She documented the loss of a tennis match, her unpredictable driving, catty friends, devoted cats and difficult guests. As Jean’s words propel us back in time, ‘A Notable Woman’ becomes a unique slice of living, breathing British history and a revealing private chronicle of life in the 20th century.
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Correspondence to and from the writer of the James Bond novels, Ian Fleming.
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Holidaying by the sea, and taking inspiration from the shells she finds on the seashore, Anne Morrow Lindbergh meditates on youth and age, love and marriage, peace, solitude and contentment. The mother of five children, an acclaimed writer and a pioneering aviator Lindbergh’s insights – into the trappings of the modern world that threaten to overwhelm us, the technology that complicates what it promises to simplify, the ever multiplying commitments that take us from our families – are perhaps even more true and relevant today than they were in the fifties.
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In 1992 Alexandra Fuller embarked on a new journey, into a long, tempestuous marriage to Charlie Ross, the love of her life. In this frank, personal memoir, a sequel to ‘Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight’, she charts their 20 years together, from the brutal beauty of the Zambezi to the mountains of Wyoming – the new adventures, the unexplored paths, the insurmountable obstacles and the many signals that they missed along the way.
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With empathy and imagination John Berger depicts the circumstances of individual lives and the humanity and detail of the doctor-patient relationship in a country practice.
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With her sharp eye for human foibles and unfailing sense of humour, Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation’s best-loved poets. Now, thanks to this carefully curated prose collection consisting of a lifetime of published and unpublished work, readers can finally meet the Enid-Blyton-obsessed schoolgirl, the ambivalent daughter, the amused teacher, the sensitive journalist, the cynical romantic, the savagely funny television critic.
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At times suspenseful, at times deeply moving, but always brave and honest, ‘Not My Father’s Son’ is a powerful story about embracing the best aspects of the past and triumphantly pushing the darkness aside.
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Following on from the hugely popular ‘Dear Lupin’, Charlie Mortimer’s older sister, Jane Torday, shares her own letters. As Roger Mortimer’s eldest daughter, she received hundreds over the years, containing the same wit, irreverence and poignancy as those to Charlie.
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In a series of short, vivid, dramatic stories, using psychoanalytic insight, ‘The Examined Life’ uncovers the extraordinary hidden feelings behind apparently ordinary behaviour.
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‘In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts’. Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in ‘Winter Journal’, Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within, through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world. From his baby’s-eye view of the man in the moon to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine to his dawning awareness of the injustices of American life, ‘Report from the Interior’ charts Auster’s moral, political and intellectual journey as he inches his way toward adulthood through the post-war fifties and into the turbulent 1960s.
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Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them? In ‘The Trip to Echo Spring’, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver.
