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Diana Athill (Y)
A sequel to the Costa Award-winning Somewhere Towards the End: a rich, humorous and intelligent consideration of growing old and what really matters in the end.
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Fresh re-issue of Diana Athill’s candid memoir of a life spent working as an editor of some of the most celebrated writers of the post war generation.
Life Class includes Athill’s classic memoirs and spans more than four stages of Diana Athill’s life.
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Diana Athill
Included in the BEST OF GRANTA series: the Costa-award winning memoir on what it means to grow old.
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In England half a century ago, well-brought-up women were meant to aspire to the respectable life. Meg progresses from school to art college with few outward signs of passion or…
A recently discovered gem from the bestselling author of Somewhere Towards the End and Alive, Alive Oh!: the charming and vivacious diary of Diana Athill’s holiday to Florence in the…
Stunning reissue of Diana Athill’s candid memoir of her childhood.
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A sparkling narrative of the journey into old age by one of Britian’s most candid writers.
A collection of candid, entertaining letters, spanning thirty years of wit, wisdom, gossip and intimacy.
The Costa-award winning memoir on what it means to grow old, reissued alongside Athill’s extensive backlist.
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The story of Diana Athill’s relationship with Didi - a gifted writer and an Egyptian in exile - and a remarkably honest, poignant look at love and grief.
Written with Diana Athill’s trademark insight and wry humour, a memoir of Diana’s childhood, in England in the 1920s, that asks: does privilege equate to happiness?
A charming, vibrant diary of Diana Athill’s holiday to Florence in the late 1940s.
First published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2016
Diana Athill’s memoir of a life spent working with some of the charismatic characters who have dominated 20th-century literature. With inimitable wit and rare candour, she recounts tales from a…
A selection of short stories mostly written in the late 1950s: some are set in England and describe Diana Athill’s girlhood; one or two describe holidays abroad; almost all are…
A luminous, wise, and joyful insight into what really matters at the end of a long life, from the beloved author of the award-winning Somewhere Towards the End.
A classic memoir by the author of the New York Times bestseller Somewhere Towards the End.
An invitation to sit a spell with an intractable and witty friend. -New York Times Book Review
Winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography and a New York Times bestseller: a prize-winning, critically acclaimed memoir on life and aging - An honest joy…
Diana Athill met Black Power activist Hakim Jamal when she edited his book, From the Dead Level: Malcolm X and Me. Against all odds, they became friends, sometimes lovers.
Athill’s debut, and a modern classic memoir: a moving story of love and loss, heartbreak and hope during the second world war.
Diana Athill’s account of her turbulent relationship with Black Power activist Hakim Jamal in the 1960s: raw and unflinching, a memoir of friendship, love, mania and injustice.
Diana Athill’s childhood, in the Norfolk countryside in impoverished gentility, was blissful. In 1932, aged fifteen, she fell passionately in love with a young undergraduate. She went up to Oxford…
Waguih Ghali
First published in 1964, Beer in the Snooker Club is a classic of the literature of emigration.
What a feast. Diana’s work compels me… . She’s got her teeth into life! -Alice Munro
In England half a century ago well-brought-up women were meant to aspire to the respectable life. Meg progresses from school to art college with few outward signs of passion or…
Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville’s modern classic of one man’s loss, struggle and survival in the Australian wilderness, introduced by Diana Athill
Alfred Chester
Lyric and tender one moment, cruel and dizzying the next, this literary tour de force neither celebrates perversity nor laments it, rather it projects it as part of man’s impossible…
