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A Florence Diary by Diana Athill
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
In August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her good friend Pen. In this playful diary of that trip, Athill recorded her observations and adventures - eating with (and paid for by) the hopeful men they meet on their travels, admiring architect ...Show more
After A Funeral by Diana Athill
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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. This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to take his own life. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she ...Show more
Alive, Alive Oh and Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
What matters in the end? In the final years of life, which memories stand out? Writing from her retirement home in Highgate, London, as she approaches her 100th year, Diana Athill reflects on what it is like to be in her nineties, and on the moments in her life which have risen to the surface and sustai ...Show more
Don't Look at Me Like That by Diana Athill
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of Somewhere Towards the End and Stet, the late great Diana Athill's only novel, about love, betrayal and a young woman finding oneself in 1950s London. England, in the mid-fifties. Meg Bailey has always aspired to live a respectable life. With her best friend, Roxane, she moves from se ...Show more
Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend by Diana Athill
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A collection of candid, entertaining letters, spanning thirty years of wit, wisdom, gossip and intimacy. Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old friend, and writing with an intimacy and spontaneity ev ...Show more
Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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 childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside. Aged only fifteen, she fell in love with a young undergraduate. They travelled to Oxford, engaged to ...Show more
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Included in the BEST OF GRANTA series: the Costa-award winning memoir on what it means to grow old.
Stet - An Editor's Life by Diana Athill
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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.
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