Letter, Diaries

‘One of the saddest and yet most thrilling sights to me was to see parties of those young fellows who had just volunteered being marched from the recruiting office – perhaps 30, 50 or 100 of them – …

Oscar Wilde’s early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met. He was celebrated – or mocked – as the master of the ingenious epigram, the provocative …

Feast your eyes on a treasury of words and illustrations from one of the most exciting young talents around, recently voted by The Times as one of the top ten literary talents of 2008.Enter the weird …

This is hindi translation from english book LEGACY. Narayana Murthy, Chanda Kochhar, Kishore Biyani, Zia Mody, K.V. Kamath, Ajay Piramal, Amit Chandra, Ganesh Natrajan, Renuka Ramnath, P.P. Chhabria, …

As a young officer in the prestigious 21st Lancers (motto ‘Death or Glory’) Douglas Haig played a leading role in Kitchener’s bold expedition which ended in the defeat of the Khalifa of Sudan at …

A gift that will bring cries of delighted recognition from anyone who has ever owned a dog and, dare one say it, charm the pants off even those who strongly prefer cats.Hello. My name is Plum and I m …

Louis Mac Neice is increasingly recognised as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his work has been a defining influence upon a generation of Irish poets that includes Derek …

Spike Milligan’s letters contain some of the best material he ever wrote . . . Collected here for the first time are the funniest, rudest and most revealing of them – most of which have never been …

From the time when he was a little boy, Patrick White wrote letters – brilliant, gossipy, funny, angry, heartfelt letters. When he died in 1990 at the age of 78, between 2, 500 and 3, 000 of them …