Letter, Diaries

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a prolific and gifted poet. The verses collected here …

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), …

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 …

Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places. W.H. Auden, dedication to Stephen Spender, 1932Stephen Spender wrote almost a million words of journal entries …

One of Germany’s greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich H lderlin (1770-1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception. This new translation of selected letters and …

A London mum and Iraqi teacher should have nothing in common. Yet now, despite their differences, they’re the firmest of friends . . . Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad by Bee Rowlatt and May …

Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, G rard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with …

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 …

This annotated edition of General Hodges’s WWII diary offers a unique firsthand account of the First US Army from D-Day to V-E Day: “a fascinating book” (Bowling Green Daily News). …

The Boy Who Saw True is based on the diary entries of a young Victorian boy whose extraordinary supernatural talent reveals itself within these pages. By turns na ve, insightful, funny and moving, it …