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Daisy Dunn
The Art of Deduction
Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life
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Michael Bloch
The Courtier’s Craft
King's Counsellor: Abdication and War – The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles
By Duff Hart-Davis (ed)
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December 2019 Issue
James Stourton
His Second Home Was Clarence House
Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose – Volume Two, 1979–2014
By D R Thorpe (ed)
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October 2000 Issue
Hugh Massingberd
Now We Can Know
Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries 1979–1981
By James Lees-Milne (Edited by Michael Bloch)
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December 2018 Issue
Jane Ridley
Full of Heirs and Graces
Who’s In, Who’s Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose – Volume One 1944–1979
By D R Thorpe
April 2000 Issue
Pamela Norris
Who Is Sylvia?
The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950–1962
By Karen V Kukil (ed)
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January 1995 Issue
Nicholas Shakespeare
Diarist who Makes your Hair Stand on End
Journals (1982-1986)
By Anthony Powell
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December 2017 Issue
Cosmo Landesman
Glitz Spirit
The Vanity Fair Diaries 1983-1992
By Tina Brown
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December 1996 Issue
Sheridan Morley
Disappearing Act
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
By Alec Guinness
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Jane Ridley
Rex Whistler Painted Her Hall
A Constant Heart: The War Diaries of Maud Russell 1938–1945
By Emily Russell (ed)
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November 2016 Issue
Patrick Scrivenor
Voice from the Western Front
From Eton to Ypres: The Letters and Diaries of Lt Col Wilfrid Abel Smith, Grenadier Guards, 1914–15
By Charles Abel Smith (ed)
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May 1980 Issue
Stephen Trombley
Virginia Woolf
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume III
By Anne Olivier Bell (ed), Andrew McNeillie (ass ed)
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May 2016 Issue
Frances Wilson
Bin There, Done That
A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip
By Alexander Masters
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April 2016 Issue
D J Taylor
Sorrowing in Sunlight
Devoid of Shyness: From the Journal, 1926–1939
By Alan Pryce-Jones (Edited by John Byrne)
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Short Measure
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April 1991 Issue
Alan Bell
‘Lewis No Virgin’ Shock! Horror!
All My Road Before Me: Diary 1922–1927
By C S Lewis
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November 2015 Issue
Mark Bostridge
Love among the Paperbacks
A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt
By Simon Garfield (ed)
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October 2015 Issue
Piers Brendon
Learning the Lambeth Walk
The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932–1943
By Gabriel Gorodetsky (ed) (Translated by Tatiana Sorokina & Oliver Ready)
September 2015 Issue
Christopher Silvester
Waspish Wit
‘It’s the Pictures that Got Small’: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood’s Golden Age
By Anthony Slide (ed)
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Anna Reid
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