Letter, Diaries

Down South by Chris Parry – one man’s astonishing diary of war in the Falklands’A gripping account of heroism – and chaos – in the South Atlantic’ Mail on Sunday’Compelling, gripping. A vividly writt …

Will They Ever Trust Us Again? brings together hundreds of never-before-published letters that Mike has been sent – from GIs serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, from troops in US bases, from their mothe …

In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire – youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters – invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires’ house i …

Twelve Years A Slave is subtitled Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853 from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana …

Selected letters and nonfiction of one of America’s most beloved writers “reveals the occasionally softer side of the man behind the hard-boiled mysteries” (Library Journal).   …

Albert John (‘Jack’) Martin was a thirty-two-year-old clerk at the Admiralty when he was called up to serve in the army in September 1916. These diaries, written in secret, hidden from his colleagues …

This fifth volume of the collected letters of poet, playwright, essayist, and literary critic Thomas Stearns Eliot covers the years 1930 through 1931. It was during this period that the acclaime …

Susan Whyman draws on a hidden world of previously unknown letter writers to explore bold new ideas about the history of writing, reading and the novel. Capturing actual dialogues of people discussin …

Sharp and moving reflections and ruminations on the artistry and craft of writing from one of our most iconoclastic, riveting, and celebrated masters.Charles Bukowskis stories, poems, and novels have …

James’s correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton. This fully-anno …